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Time Here for Pre-emergent North Texas

By Neil Sperry • February 27, 2024

Remember that map of the average date of the last killing freeze for each area of Texas? We ran it here several weeks back. Here’s a link if you missed …

Gardening This Weekend: February 29, 2024

By Neil Sperry • February 27, 2024

If you told me I could list up to 15 tasks gardeners should do at this time of the year, here are the ones I would probably put at the …

Superior Vine for Texas Landscapes

By Neil Sperry • February 20, 2024

As I’ve told you probably too often, I grew up in little College Station (pop. 6,000) back when you could still walk from one side of town to the other. …

Little Garden Tip: Repurposed Treasure

By Neil Sperry • February 20, 2024

Mom and Dad had been married 17 years when I was adopted. It was obvious that they/he wanted a child. He was a prof at Texas A&M, but he was …

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 …

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