Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening Texans’ favorite go-to gardening reference • Hardback, high-quality paper • Printed in Texas by Texans (not in China) • 344 pages and 840 of Neil’s …
The first thing most of us want when we start planting our landscape is shade as quickly as possible. Then, we don’t know how to deal with it once we …
My wife and I have been members of this not-for-profit foundation since it began back in 1998, and this has been an exciting annual event that she has chaired for …
It seems like each week the temperatures go up by 3 or 4 degrees. We’re on that steady climb toward summertime, and that means there are things we really must …
These two colors work well together, and that’s the way that I’ve seen them at our church, First United Methodist in McKinney. I’ve pulled some photos I’ve taken at this …
I took turf management classes as a part of my college curriculum in ornamental (landscape) horticulture. In fact, one of the nation’s most respected turf authorities sat on my Master’s …
You see them everywhere, like them or not: day-glo birds posing beside pools and palm trees, posturing next to patios and garden paths, and strutting their pink plastic stuff in …
A gardener’s life moves in 10-degree increments. It was 20’s and 30’s back in the winter. Then we had delightful 60’s and 70’s for a while. Folks in South and …
Neil, some of these details and memories are sketchy, as they go back about 30 years. And I hate to burst your bubble, but I didn’t “invent” the ‘Texas Gold’ …
