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Gardening This Weekend: May 9, 2024

By Neil Sperry • May 8, 2024

This is one of the “primest” of times in the landscape and garden. Everything is growing at breakneck speed. Let’s look at details of things you’ll want to get done. …

Sharing highlights from GardenScapes – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • May 6, 2024

Imagine! A colorful curbside garden filled with blooms, bees, butterflies and birdhouses; a poolscape accented with plant-filled containers as blue as the water itself; herbs spilling from pots, tubs and …

Why are eastern redcedars dying?

By Neil Sperry • May 1, 2024

As Leyland cypress, Italian cypress, and even Arizona cypress have cratered under attack of Seiridium canker and redtip photinias have been blasted by Entomosporium fungal leaf spot, our native eastern …

Could I be the luckiest guy?

By Neil Sperry • April 30, 2024

Tomorrow will be May 3, 2024. I will turn 80. Mom and Dad had grown up in Nebraska. Both had attended the University of Nebraska, where Dad got his PhD …

Golden Raintree

By Steve Huddleston • April 30, 2024

(Photos by Steve Huddleston unless otherwise noted.)Here’s a ray of sunshine popping through all the spring showers. A medium-sized tree that tops out at 25 or 30 ft. tall, making …

Gardening This Weekend: May 2, 2024

By Neil Sperry • April 30, 2024

It seems like you’re meeting yourself coming and going, mowing and pruning, feeding and planting. It’s a great time to be a gardener in Texas. Here’s this weekend’s list. PLANT• …

One of the best of the bulbs

By Neil Sperry • April 24, 2024

I’ve featured St. Joseph’s lily before here, and I’m proud to write about it again. It’s the kind of friend you like to introduce often. Dating back to the very …

Wintercreeper versus Asian jasmine after winter

By Neil Sperry • April 23, 2024

A nursery in the Hill Country told one of our e-gardens readers that they didn’t stock purple wintercreeper euonymus “…because it couldn’t hold up to the Texas summertime.” I’ve been …

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