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Passionate for purple

By Neil Sperry • April 10, 2024

When I was a teenaged boy, you wouldn’t have caught me dead writing about purple plants. It had to be bright red, screaming orange, or sunshine yellow. I grew up …

Signmaking … in your own words – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • April 9, 2024

As if the language of flowers wasn’t expressive enough, gardeners rely on signs to identify plants, relay messages, and impart inspiration. Like the flowers and foliage around them, the signs …

Gardening This Weekend: April 11, 2024

By Neil Sperry • April 9, 2024

Here are your main goals for this second big gardening weekend of April. PLANT• Warm-season vegetables immediately, including tomatoes (small and mid-sized varieties set fruit much better than large types), …

Phalaenopsis replay

By Neil Sperry • April 4, 2024

Some 30 or 35 years ago (I did no research on that assumption – just used my old memory), moth orchids replaced mums to become the most popular flowering potted …

Invader into the garden or wildscape

By Neil Sperry • April 3, 2024

The first time I encountered dodder was in a giant greenhouse in Akron, Ohio. They were growing chrysanthemum cuttings by the hundreds of thousands and somehow this plant had gotten …

Gardening This Weekend: April 4, 2024

By Neil Sperry • April 3, 2024

So, here’s my start of a list for the most critical things to accomplish between now and the middle of April. Ready! Get set! Grow! PLANT• New nursery stock. Supplies …

Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum

By Steve Huddleston • April 3, 2024

This is a plant that is more than happy to call Texas its home. It adapts well to a wide range of soils. It handles our heat, and it stands …

Little Garden Tip: Wintercreeper

By Neil Sperry • March 26, 2024

Groundcovers came into their own in the 1960s and 70s. They were the perfect transitions where grass wouldn’t grow, where it was difficult to maintain, or when we just wanted …

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