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Time is here to control crape myrtle bark scale

By Neil Sperry • May 14, 2025

This ugly pest has come of legal age here in the United States. First reported in Richardson, Texas, in 2004, it now has spread across the South and up the …

King of the begonias

By Neil Sperry • May 14, 2025

This is not the kind of plant you’d expect to come from the Himalayas. Then again, few of us has actually traveled there, so we probably didn’t know there are …

Gardening This Weekend: May 15, 2025

By Neil Sperry • May 13, 2025

We have new assignments on our close-in horizon. That’s partly due to the temperatures and partly because of the time of year. Scan through the list. PLANT• Watch nurseries for …

Beautiful plants, miserable names

By Neil Sperry • May 7, 2025

When I was a kid any kind of bright color appealed to me. Flowers were obvious, but when I could find a plant with colorful leaves, that was like buried …

Peace lilies out for the summer

By Neil Sperry • May 7, 2025

I started out with three Mauna Loa Spathiphyllums in 2-gallon pots. I bought them for the hearth in our living room 25 years ago. I knew they could handle the …

Gardening This Weekend: May 8, 2025

By Neil Sperry • May 6, 2025

Use this as your guideline of things you need to do between now and early next week. This is your list of homework assignments. PLANT• New trees, shrubs and groundcovers. …

Grow a Pollinator paradise – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • May 6, 2025

If April showers bring May flowers, it follows that bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds won’t be far behind. Driven by their appetite for nectar, they flit from one nectar-rich flower to …

Time for an upgrade

By Neil Sperry • April 30, 2025

Redtip photinias have been among the most popular large shrubs along the West Coast, across the South, and up the East Coast of the United States since they were introduced …

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