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Chinese snowball is under-loved but deserving

By Neil Sperry • March 19, 2024

This is a great year to be promoting Chinese snowball viburnums (Viburnum macrocephalum). They’re spectacular as they reach peak bloom in North Central Texas right now. I’m sure they’ve been …

Garden Tip: Hybridized Hobbies

By Neil Sperry • March 19, 2024

I met Carolyn Skei 20-ish years ago on the other side of heavy double plate glass windows. I wasn’t a bank teller, and she wasn’t a cashier at an all-night …

Little Garden Tip: Reversed Mutations

By Neil Sperry • March 12, 2024

When I began my Master’s degree program at Colorado State decades ago carnations were a huge thing in Denver. Now, almost all come from Columbia. But that’s another story for …

Dwarf Chinese holly – one of my old “go-to’s”

By Neil Sperry • March 12, 2024

When I need a plant that will hold up to heat and cold, sun or shade, and a wide variety of soil types to boot, odds are I’m going to …

Making the most of corners – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • March 12, 2024

With garden design, it’s easy to become so focused on the big picture that you overlook the potential of corners. But when you add purpose or decorative appeal to these …

Gardening This Weekend: March 14, 2024

By Neil Sperry • March 12, 2024

This is a great time of year. Cool enough to enjoy the outdoors. Warm enough that our plants are revving their roots. Here are the mid-March activities. PLANT• Small and …

Can I grow these plants in Texas?

By Neil Sperry • March 6, 2024

Gardeners who move to Texas soon learn that they’re dealt a whole new hand of cards here. While they’ve come to know and love crape myrtles, pecans, and maybe even …

Foundation Plantings

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2024

Lynn and I had just married. We actually had bought a mobile home and had moved it from the Ohio State area to 30 miles south of Lake Erie where …

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