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Gardening This Weekend: February 15, 2024

By Neil Sperry • February 12, 2024

Gardening is picking up speed like a pebble rolling down a mountainside. Let’s see where it needs to stop so we can get some things done. PLANT• Cole crops (cabbage, …

Interested in a home orchard?

By Neil Sperry • February 5, 2024

I see a lot of people trying to grow their own fruit crops at home, yet many struggle, partly because they’ve planted the wrong varieties, and partly because they don’t …

Garden Tip: Branch Collars

By Neil Sperry • February 2, 2024

Your goal is to have all cut wounds on a branch heal as quickly as possible. That will happen when a roll of new bark can form across the cut …

Gardens are all heart – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • February 2, 2024

As if it wasn’t enough that nature decorates gardens with the heart-shaped foliage and flowers of caladium, cyclamen, elephant ear, hosta, dicentra, and ivy, among other heartthrobs. Gardeners, too, seem …

Gardening This Weekend: February 8, 2024

By Neil Sperry • February 2, 2024

Grab a tablet, and jot down your assignments. Here are the ones that popped into my mind. PLANT• Frost-tolerant annuals to replace any that got toasted by the cold back …

Garden Tip: From a shrub to a tree

By Neil Sperry • January 31, 2024

Willowleaf hollies (also known as “Needlepoint,” even though their leaves aren’t especially fearsome) are some of Texas’ finest mid-sized evergreen shrubs. They’re offsprings of Burford holly, which puts them in …

Winter Jasmine: Dependable, Uncommon – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • January 29, 2024

Winter jasmine is a tough, not-so-common shrub that is perfectly suited for Texas and one that adds cool-season interest to the landscape. Although it can be trained as a vine …

Iceland Poppies Are Uncommonly Beautiful

By Neil Sperry • January 29, 2024

I saw Iceland poppies for the first time about 40 years ago. And I knew on first sight that I loved them. Several years later I found a couple of …

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