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Making the most of corners – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • March 12, 2024

With garden design, it’s easy to become so focused on the big picture that you overlook the potential of corners. But when you add purpose or decorative appeal to these …

Gardening This Weekend: March 14, 2024

By Neil Sperry • March 12, 2024

This is a great time of year. Cool enough to enjoy the outdoors. Warm enough that our plants are revving their roots. Here are the mid-March activities. PLANT• Small and …

Can I grow these plants in Texas?

By Neil Sperry • March 6, 2024

Gardeners who move to Texas soon learn that they’re dealt a whole new hand of cards here. While they’ve come to know and love crape myrtles, pecans, and maybe even …

Foundation Plantings

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2024

Lynn and I had just married. We actually had bought a mobile home and had moved it from the Ohio State area to 30 miles south of Lake Erie where …

Agarita is a native to love – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • March 5, 2024

Agarita is a beautiful evergreen shrub from the western half of Texas where it grows in open woods and on rocky slopes. You’ll find it in well-drained loam, clay, caliche, …

Gardening This Weekend: March 7, 2024

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2024

Here are this weekend’s prime goals. See how many you can check off. PLANT• Trees, shrubs, vines, and groundcovers while supplies are at their best. Shop on Thursdays and Fridays. …

Quick Garden Tip … Know vine’s habits before planting

By Neil Sperry • February 28, 2024

Vines are some of the most useful plants in landscaping. But that’s only if you position them properly – only if you understand how they climb and then provide them …

A lovely little gem of a tree

By Neil Sperry • February 27, 2024

The Missouri Botanical Gardens says Mexican plums are native from Mexico across Texas, throughout their state of Missouri, and north to southeastern South Dakota to Ohio. To be honest, I …

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