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Compromises in the Landscape

By Neil Sperry • October 3, 2019

People come at me with a long list of “wants.” It doesn’t take long before I realize that their expectations exceed my ability to deliver. Here are some of the …

Mums Star in the Fall

By Neil Sperry • October 2, 2019

I’ve always been a big fan of chrysanthemums. Stop by any garden center today and you’ll run into big jewel-like displays of these most popular of all autumn flowers. Known …

Gardening This Weekend: October 3, 2019

By Neil Sperry • October 2, 2019

Here are the things I’m going to try to get done as the weather shifts from summer’s heat to fall’s much more tolerable cooler temperatures. PLANT• Pansies, violas, pinks, snapdragons, …

Fall Shades of Orange

By Neil Sperry • September 24, 2019

As Lynn and I have been out running errands the past several days I’ve seen the two plants I’ve decided to feature this week. Neither is reliably winter-hardy in our …

Will Be Most Visible Weed of Autumn

By Neil Sperry • September 24, 2019

This is the way roadside aster looks now. Roadside asters will soon become evident in under-maintained lawns. In fact, it is so dense that you can feel it underfoot as …

Gardening This Weekend: September 26, 2019

By Neil Sperry • September 24, 2019

It’s time to tend to your fall gardening activities. Here are the most critical tasks among them. PLANT• Dig and divide iris, daylilies, Shasta daisies, coneflowers and other spring-flowering perennials …

Up to My Eyeballs in Lawngrasses

By Neil Sperry • September 17, 2019

It seems like every other question the past month or so has been about a lawn that has turned brown or one that is well on its way. No one’s …

American Beautyberry

By Neil Sperry • September 17, 2019

It just wasn’t fall in College Station without American beautyberries colorizing the post oak forests around me. That’s where I grew up, and these plants were a part of my …

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