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Choose Your Tree Service Carefully

By Neil Sperry • May 30, 2024

A healthy, vigorous shade tree is worth thousands of dollars in energy conservation, recreational value, and resale dollars for your home. Wise gardeners hire the best companies to do their …

Q&A – Ask Neil: May 30, 2024 – Part 2

By Neil Sperry • May 28, 2024

QUESTION 8HOW FAR APART SHOULD CARISSA HOLLIES BE SPACED? Question: I am planting Carissa hollies to replace Indian hawthorns that were killed in the freeze of February 2021. They will …

Gardening This Weekend: May 30, 2024

By Neil Sperry • May 28, 2024

Wasn’t it just a couple of weeks ago when mornings were brisk? Now the warm days of summer have blown into town. Here are the critical tasks that come with …

Unusual lawn issues

By Neil Sperry • May 21, 2024

Forget take all root rot that should be wrapping up about now. Put aside chinch bugs and gray leaf spot that shouldn’t be present quite yet. Let’s talk about some …

Smitten with the fancy-leafed begonias

By Neil Sperry • May 21, 2024

I’ve always had a greenhouse. My dad and I built a small lean-to greenhouse off our garage when I was 12. I had access to the university greenhouses at Ohio …

Gardening This Weekend: May 23, 2024

By Neil Sperry • May 21, 2024

To help you thin down your list of things to get done, I’ve included only the most time-sensitive among them. PLANT• Summertime annuals. This is where your local nursery can …

Garden screens – masters of disguise – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • May 20, 2024

If you are wondering what a vine-covered trellis, a short row of columnar trees and a set of mosaic-adorned panels have in common, it’s simple: each of them can be …

Forest Pansy redbud shines

By Neil Sperry • May 15, 2024

I’ve been a fan of redbuds all my life. They’re some of our finest spring-flowering trees. When they follow that up with great foliar color, so much the better. That’s …

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