Articles - Neil Sperry's GARDENS

Plant of the Week – September 27, 2018: Firebush

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 2018

My Extension Service friends Greg Grant and Drs. Jerry Parsons and Steve George worked hard to bring this fine plant to the gardens of Texans almost 30 years ago, and …

Gardening This Weekend: September 27, 2018

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 2018

Cool weather makes it a whole lot more pleasant to be working outdoors. Here are your critical tasks with this weekend’s changing conditions. PLANT • Watch for sales in nurseries …

Quick Bits

By Neil Sperry • September 19, 2018

Let’s see how this goes. Four little topics of great or tiny importance. I’ll let you be the judge. I hope you enjoy this. Ragweed Take a look at this …

Orange You Glad I Featured These!

By Neil Sperry • September 19, 2018

It’s kinda hard for a kid who grew up in College Station to find anything good to say about orange flowers, but folks, the three I’ve brought to you today …

Gardening This Weekend: September 20, 2018

By Neil Sperry • September 19, 2018

Sometime in the next several days, these are the things you’ll want to get done in your landscape and garden. PLANT: • Color from mums, petunias, Joseph’s coat, Mexican bush …

A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SUNFLOWER

By Neil Sperry • September 11, 2018

You’ll see them blooming across Texas each fall, usually native in ditches along roadsides. Maximilian sunflowers are lovely.

Colorful Crotons

By Neil Sperry • September 11, 2018

There’s probably no foliage plant with more colorful leaves. Fall is their best season, so be sure to include some.

Gardening This Weekend: September 13, 2018

By Neil Sperry • September 10, 2018

I saw my first pumpkins at a local grocery last weekend. It’s just hard to believe that fall can already be near, but it is. And that means there are …

3rd printing of Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening