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Gorgeous Gaillardias

By Neil Sperry • May 15, 2024

By the time gaillardias get around to blooming all the hoopla of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrushes is over. Folks are moving on to thoughts of peaches, watermelons, and summer vacations. …

Gardening This Weekend: May 16, 2024

By Neil Sperry • May 15, 2024

We’re transitioning toward summertime temperatures across most of Texas. That changes our gardening tasks. Here’s what’s on your list for this weekend. PLANT• New lawngrass. This is the best time …

What a crazy week…

By Neil Sperry • May 9, 2024

It all began one week ago as you opened e-gardens. I shared with you that I would be turning 80 last Friday. • I told you that our son Todd, …

Cedar Bark Beetle Re-emphasized

By Neil Sperry • May 8, 2024

Dozens of you had been asking about eastern redcedars dying in numbers. I’d seen a few north of DFW, but until our son, my wife and I traveled I-45 this …

Gardening This Weekend: May 9, 2024

By Neil Sperry • May 8, 2024

This is one of the “primest” of times in the landscape and garden. Everything is growing at breakneck speed. Let’s look at details of things you’ll want to get done. …

Sharing highlights from GardenScapes – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • May 6, 2024

Imagine! A colorful curbside garden filled with blooms, bees, butterflies and birdhouses; a poolscape accented with plant-filled containers as blue as the water itself; herbs spilling from pots, tubs and …

Why are eastern redcedars dying?

By Neil Sperry • May 1, 2024

As Leyland cypress, Italian cypress, and even Arizona cypress have cratered under attack of Seiridium canker and redtip photinias have been blasted by Entomosporium fungal leaf spot, our native eastern …

Could I be the luckiest guy?

By Neil Sperry • April 30, 2024

Tomorrow will be May 3, 2024. I will turn 80. Mom and Dad had grown up in Nebraska. Both had attended the University of Nebraska, where Dad got his PhD …

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