Golden Raintree

By Steve Huddleston • April 30, 2024

(Photos by Steve Huddleston unless otherwise noted.)Here’s a ray of sunshine popping through all the spring showers. A medium-sized tree that tops out at 25 or 30 ft. tall, making …

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Gardening This Weekend: May 2, 2024

By Neil Sperry • April 30, 2024

It seems like you’re meeting yourself coming and going, mowing and pruning, feeding and planting. It’s a great time to be a gardener in Texas. Here’s this weekend’s list. PLANT• …

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One of the best of the bulbs

By Neil Sperry • April 24, 2024

I’ve featured St. Joseph’s lily before here, and I’m proud to write about it again. It’s the kind of friend you like to introduce often. Dating back to the very …

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Wintercreeper versus Asian jasmine after winter

By Neil Sperry • April 23, 2024

A nursery in the Hill Country told one of our e-gardens readers that they didn’t stock purple wintercreeper euonymus “…because it couldn’t hold up to the Texas summertime.” I’ve been …

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Garden in a dish – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • April 23, 2024

My earliest memory of a dish garden occurred following a family vacation to North Carolina when I was a kid. Dad had the green thumb, but Mom, mesmerized by the …

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Gardening This Weekend: April 25, 2024

By Neil Sperry • April 23, 2024

You have one more weekend in April. It looks like rain may be on the horizon, but you can still stop by your favorite garden center between showers. PLANT• New …

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GARDENING THIS WEEKEND: APRIL 18, 2024

By Neil Sperry • April 17, 2024

This is the time of year when gardeners go to sleep thinking of all the great things they can do the next day. Here’s my list for the upcoming week. …

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Is it a perennial, or is it a shrub?

By Neil Sperry • April 17, 2024

We’ve been blessed with dozens of great salvias. Fact is, we’ve been blessed with dozens of this species (Salvia greggii) alone. It may be the longest-lasting, most dependable perennial you …

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