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GARDENING THIS WEEKEND: APRIL 2, 2026

By Neil Sperry • March 31, 2026

Here are the most time-sensitive things I’d put on your list to get done when you can over this holiday weekend. PLANT• Tomatoes. Timing is critical. Wait too long and …

Butterflies named it. You’ll love it.

By Neil Sperry • March 24, 2026

If you listed the Top 50 wildflowers in Texas, this plant might make the list. If you listed the Top 50 perennials for Texas, it almost assuredly would not. Native …

Ouch! That’s too tight!

By Neil Sperry • March 24, 2026

This was a live oak. I emphasize “was” because it is no more. The people who planted it and carefully staked it and supported it with cables never came back …

Chicken décor rules the garden roost – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • March 24, 2026

It’s spring, and chicken décor has come home to roost! Look around. Ceramic hen-shaped pots sit on patio tables, concrete hens and baby chicks flock together in flower beds, and …

Gardening This Weekend: March 26, 2026

By Neil Sperry • March 24, 2026

Whatever your gardening love might be and wherever you practice it, there’s plenty to do now that we’re in the middle of springtime. Here are the things I’ve put at …

Subtle but deadly to cypresses and junipers

By Neil Sperry • March 18, 2026

Veteran gardeners often think of spider mites as late spring and summertime pests that attack plants like beans, marigolds, violets, and tomatoes. Fact is, they’re the most universal “insect” we …

Parade of petunias

By Neil Sperry • March 18, 2026

If you’ve ever lived in the Midwest, North, or Northeast, you know how beautiful petunias can be in the summertime garden. Here in Texas, however, we must re-adjust our timing …

Inspired by their elegance

By Neil Sperry • March 17, 2026

As a young horticulturist I thought these plants were strictly foo-foo. Something little old ladies grew on their windowsills. Well, now that I’m a (not so little) man getting up …

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