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Color fall gardens with summer containers – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • August 19, 2025

Despite the challenge of container gardening in Texas in late-summer, when the heat is stifling and there’s either too much rain or no rain at all, many colorful container plants …

Gardening This Weekend: August 21, 2025

By Neil Sperry • August 19, 2025

Here are the things that rank as most important here in the latter half of August. PLANT• Zinnias, marigolds, and celosias (cockscombs) from vigorous transplants in bud, but not yet …

Last chance at nutsedge

By Neil Sperry • August 13, 2025

To help you tell them apart…Grasses have round stems. Bermudagrass. Johnsongrass. Corn. Roll any of their stems between your thumb and index finger and you’ll feel that they’re round. Sedges …

Summertime blues

By Neil Sperry • August 13, 2025

Cool colors recede in the landscape. They drop back visually, giving your eyes a rest. They meld gracefully with the natural dark greens of summertime foliage for a great and …

Rounding out the garden – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • August 12, 2025

It’s hard to pinpoint what makes garden orbs so appealing. Some orbs resemble colorful balloons, others suggest iridescent bubbles. Still other orbs, with their craggy textures and earthen hues, appear …

Gardening This Weekend: August 14, 2025

By Neil Sperry • August 12, 2025

Here are the mid-August things you’ll want to do for your landscape and garden. PLANT• Fall annuals for the intense colors they’ll bring to your landscape in fall’s cooler weather. …

Little plant, you’ve come so far

By Neil Sperry • August 6, 2025

Madagascar must be filled with other-worldly plants. I’ll let you do the searching but suffice to say that this little jewel called pink polka dot won’t even move the needle …

Can you spell “acclimated?”

By Neil Sperry • August 6, 2025

To a tropical houseplant that’s just spent 8 or 10 months of cloudy, cool winter and spring weather inside a house or apartment, perhaps with the lights turned down while …

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