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Gardening This Weekend: July 22, 2021

By Neil Sperry • July 20, 2021

When things start to happen in your landscape and garden at this time of year, they happen in a hurry. You need to keep your eyes open constantly. Here are …

Fantastic Foliage

By Neil Sperry • July 13, 2021

Flowers are great, and no landscape would be complete without them. But there is something really special about plants with colorful leaves. Properly chosen, carefully placed, and cared for regularly, …

Gardening This Weekend July 15, 2021

By Neil Sperry • July 13, 2021

It doesn’t take long to do a quick analysis of things in your landscape and garden, just to see that all is well for your plants. Here’s this week’s list. …

Katie’s Dwarf Ruellia

By Neil Sperry • July 7, 2021

If you’ve ever grown Mexican petunia, found it to be terribly invasive, and wished you’d just planted bamboo or kudzu instead (I’m only kidding), please know there is a dwarf …

My Favorite Crape Myrtle!

By Neil Sperry • July 7, 2021

Like most young men, my first loves in crape myrtles were the red types. Watermelon Red, Dallas Red, Firebird, Country Red and on to Dynamite and Red Rocket. I couldn’t …

Gardening This Weekend: July 8, 2021

By Neil Sperry • July 7, 2021

So far much of Texas has enjoyed a relatively pleasant, moist early summer. Let’s get ready (as best we can) for what is coming. Here are this weekend’s goals. PLANT• …

Gray Leaf Spot Abounds

By Neil Sperry • June 29, 2021

I had never seen gray leaf spot in St. Augustine until it hit my own lawn somewhere in the early 1990s. The grass turned decidedly yellowish, so, out of force …

Can this live oak be saved?

By Neil Sperry • June 29, 2021

The questions about whether live oaks would survive the cold of mid-February about wore me out. Dozens per day. I finally asked the advice of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service …

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