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Gardening This Weekend: February 22, 2024

By Neil Sperry • February 20, 2024

Wise gardeners make note of their tasks and stay on time with all their activities. Here are this week’s assignments. PLANT• Don’t push your planting season of tender flower and …

Step up garden style – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • February 19, 2024

Whether spacious wrap-around steps that cascade downward from a deck, stone slabs that wind up a hill, or cantilevered platforms which seem to float in the air above flowers and …

Leatherleaf mahonia

By Neil Sperry • February 12, 2024

The good news about leatherleaf mahonia, no matter where you’re reading this, is that this plant is well adapted to almost any part of Texas. As long as it has …

Garden Tip: Last Killing Freeze

By Neil Sperry • February 12, 2024

Gardeners would love to know when the final killing freeze (or frost) of the winter had finally happened, because that would be their signal that it was safe to get …

Gardening This Weekend: February 15, 2024

By Neil Sperry • February 12, 2024

Gardening is picking up speed like a pebble rolling down a mountainside. Let’s see where it needs to stop so we can get some things done. PLANT• Cole crops (cabbage, …

Interested in a home orchard?

By Neil Sperry • February 5, 2024

I see a lot of people trying to grow their own fruit crops at home, yet many struggle, partly because they’ve planted the wrong varieties, and partly because they don’t …

Garden Tip: Branch Collars

By Neil Sperry • February 2, 2024

Your goal is to have all cut wounds on a branch heal as quickly as possible. That will happen when a roll of new bark can form across the cut …

Gardens are all heart – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • February 2, 2024

As if it wasn’t enough that nature decorates gardens with the heart-shaped foliage and flowers of caladium, cyclamen, elephant ear, hosta, dicentra, and ivy, among other heartthrobs. Gardeners, too, seem …

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