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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. …

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 …

Horror Show of the High Wire

By Neil Sperry • April 16, 2024

We live out in the country. Way out. No one has lived across the road for probably 10 years and weeds and vines have pretty much taken over. I wouldn’t …

A Tune Up on Take All

By Neil Sperry • April 10, 2024

I first became aware of take all root rot (TARR) in St. Augustine turf in the 1990s. I was getting calls about the same time I was experiencing issues with …

Passionate for purple

By Neil Sperry • April 10, 2024

When I was a teenaged boy, you wouldn’t have caught me dead writing about purple plants. It had to be bright red, screaming orange, or sunshine yellow. I grew up …

Signmaking … in your own words – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • April 9, 2024

As if the language of flowers wasn’t expressive enough, gardeners rely on signs to identify plants, relay messages, and impart inspiration. Like the flowers and foliage around them, the signs …

Gardening This Weekend: April 11, 2024

By Neil Sperry • April 9, 2024

Here are your main goals for this second big gardening weekend of April. PLANT• Warm-season vegetables immediately, including tomatoes (small and mid-sized varieties set fruit much better than large types), …

Phalaenopsis replay

By Neil Sperry • April 4, 2024

Some 30 or 35 years ago (I did no research on that assumption – just used my old memory), moth orchids replaced mums to become the most popular flowering potted …

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