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Gardening This Weekend: July 9, 2026

By Neil Sperry • July 8, 2026

Your plants are counting on your checking on them often and tending to them regularly. Read through my suggestions. PLANT• Peppers (ornamental and edible) for the fall garden.• Tomatoes in …

Lucious Lantanas

By Neil Sperry • June 30, 2026

I spent several summers climbing the hillsides in Uvalde and Real Counties when I was a teenager. I was grunt labor working on herbicide research for my dad. Fact is, …

Quick Tip to Save Plants and Money

By Neil Sperry • June 30, 2026

New trees and shrubs almost always come to us in containers. Sizes range from 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 20 gallons and larger. But they all have a …

Terrific Turk’s Cap – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • June 30, 2026

(Photos by Steve Huddleston unless otherwise noted) We have here an old-fashioned pass-along shrubby perennial that’s been grown in Texas landscapes since our grandmothers’ grandmothers. It’s a multi-stemmed plant with …

Gardening This Weekend: July 2, 2026

By Neil Sperry • June 30, 2026

Who would be so cruel as to assign tasks for the Independence Day weekend? You have plenty already scheduled. So, here’s that shortened list. PLANT• Fall tomato transplants. They must …

Lindheimer’s Muhly

By Neil Sperry • June 24, 2026

I grew up around TAMU botanists. My dad was a PhD botanist working in Range Management. My uncle was a PhD botanist working in plant taxonomy. That’s the language little …

Barbaric Pruning

By Neil Sperry • June 23, 2026

If you want a tree to die a slow and painful death, you leave stubs when you remove unwanted or broken branches. Such it has been for the past 8 …

Tire planters – on the roll in gardens – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • June 23, 2026

For the tire entrepreneurs of the late 1800s, it would have been hard to imagine that one day folks would cut, reshape and otherwise manipulate used tires into garden planters. …

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