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Gardening This Weekend: June 13, 2024

By Neil Sperry • June 11, 2024

Take advantage of these longest evenings of the year to get more done while it’s a little bit cooler. Here’s your checklist of the most critical goals. Special Opportunity…You’ve read …

Time for Sprinkler Audit

By Neil Sperry • June 5, 2024

When it comes to checking your sprinkler system and even making repairs, there’s a lot you can do yourself. Having a friend work with you helps. It cuts down on …

A Parade of Pentas: June 6, 2024

By Neil Sperry • June 4, 2024

I can’t imagine a summer without pentas in my landscape and in those around me. But it hasn’t always been that way. Back when I was a kid in Bryan/College …

Save space for Vitex

By Steve Huddleston • June 4, 2024

Vitex is a plant of many functions. It can be left alone to mature into a large shrub with its branches growing all the way to the ground, or the …

Gardening This Weekend: June 6, 2024

By Neil Sperry • June 4, 2024

Here are your prime tasks now that it’s turning warm. PLANT• Tropical color, including caladiums, bougainvilleas, lemon lollipops, crotons, mandevillas, plumbagos, hibiscus, bananas and others. Don’t be afraid to bring …

A Fun Guest in Our Landscape

By Neil Sperry • May 30, 2024

This little animal, the Rio Grande Chirping Frog, arrives singing, and he (or she) sings non-stop from late spring until winter. I hear them all around me when I go …

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 …

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