There is no sweeter fragrance!

By Neil Sperry • April 24, 2025

My greenhouse is across the creek from our house. I went over a couple of evenings ago to set plants I wanted to bring to our landscape for the summer …

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Bygone Byzantine gladiolus

By Neil Sperry • April 24, 2025

Here’s an understated perennial for almost any Texas garden – one that establishes strong clumps and keeps coming back for decades, even when it’s essentially been abandoned. History of the …

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Fairy garden – ready for occupancy – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • April 23, 2025

In the realm of make-believe, the best way to lure fairies is by providing a miniature garden containing a fairy house surrounded by diminutive plants and tiny accessories. Word has …

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Gardening This Weekend: April 24, 2025

By Neil Sperry • April 23, 2025

I certainly haven’t been in every city in Texas this spring. Yet! But those that I have look like they all could use a little tuning up of their landscapes …

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Floricultural Factoids from the land of the Buckeyes

By Neil Sperry • April 16, 2025

The time was back in the ‘60s. A&M had only 3 students left in Floriculture (horticulture applied to greenhouse production). Ohio State, by comparison, had more than 240. I immediately …

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Texas Gold columbines shine

By Neil Sperry • April 16, 2025

You’ll see this plant’s mother growing natively in the Big Bend Country of Brewster County, Southwest Texas. That’s arid terrain, but somehow it has found ponds at the bases of …

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Gardening This Weekend: April 17, 2025

By Neil Sperry • April 15, 2025

Let me list some highlight kinds of things you might try to get done over this holiday weekend. It is, after all, a great time to be gardening. PLANT• Summertime …

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Better solution to a challenging problem

By Neil Sperry • April 10, 2025

I decided 35 or 40 years ago that I just needed to get right to the point in answering one particular question that kept coming up. “Neil, my red oak’s …

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