Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening • 344 pages and 840 of my best photos. • Hardback, printed on high-quality paper. • I sign every copy as it sells. • Covers …
Here is the compacted list of responsibilities for early February across Texas. PLANT• Onions in North Texas as soon as you can. Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and Irish potatoes …
Flowering quince is an old friend that just hangs around waiting to hear its name called. It’s ready to go to work in any landscape, and its work year begins …
They are as American as baseball and apple pie, as comfortably familiar as well-worn garden gloves, and as enduring as an antique rose. Luckily for gardeners and nostalgia lovers — …
You’re about to jump onto the spring gardening treadmill. Let’s look at winter tasks that need to be finished up first. PLANT• Dig and transplant established native or landscape shrubs …
Almost 100 years ago Harvard University started classifying plants by where they might be expected to survive “average” winters. The term “Hardiness Zones” came into gardeners’ vocabulary. As time went …
We’ve spent a lot of time watching the backyard birds at our feeders during the cold spell this week. Northern birds have flocked into town. They’ve stirred themselves in with …
Folks from the North think nothing of the kind of weather we’ve been encountering this week. Lynn and I lived 30 miles from Lake Erie for two years early in …