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Q&A – Ask Neil: November 7, 2024

By Neil Sperry • November 5, 2024

(Please read these instructions carefully.)Before you post your question, please look at recent issues to see if someone else has already asked it. You might find your answer there. October …

Pansies Pointers to Follow

By Neil Sperry • November 5, 2024

How can it be that pansies are the Number One bedding plants in Texas (as they have been for decades)? Simple: they’re cool-season annuals that we plant in the fall …

Gung ho about ginkgoes – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • November 5, 2024

In perfect world settings ginkgo trees can reach 50 to 80 ft. in height and 30 to 40 ft. in width. That doesn’t happen here in Texas very often, and …

Gardening This Weekend: November 7, 2024

By Neil Sperry • November 5, 2024

As promised, here’s your early November list of gardening responsibilities. PLANT• Replace summer color plants with pansies, violas, pinks, snapdragons, ornamental cabbage and kale, sweet alyssum and other cold-hardy plants …

What do I do with my banana plants now?

By Neil Sperry • November 1, 2024

Your “smart” phone will tell you when, on average, you can expect the first killing freeze in your city. Try it. Just ask Google or Siri or whatever name you …

Mexican Mint Marigold – so many things to offer

By Neil Sperry • November 1, 2024

What is this lovely little plant with the great smell of licorice or anise? Is it easy to grow in my garden? Let’s answer some questions. Mexican mint marigold. Tagetes …

Texas Arbor Day – In the Garden

By Steven Chamblee • November 1, 2024

Dear Reader,I proudly, yet humbly, give all due credit to the late, great Robin Williams for anything enjoyable you may find about this little, shall we say “article,” because I …

Gardening This Weekend: October 31, 2024

By Neil Sperry • November 1, 2024

As November begins to unfold almost all of Texas is likely to experience its first killing freeze. That’s one example of things for which we need to prepare this month. …

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