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 …
When I took the job as Dallas County Extension horticulturist in 1970, my office was on the top floor of the Records Building (across the street from the Texas School …
It’s not surprising that one of Mary Roan’s favorite quotes reads: “Creating a garden starts with an interest and soon becomes a lifetime’s obsession, one that can be engaged at …
Every year of my life I’ve had these little guys in my Texas landscapes. I wasn’t sure what I had initially, but the most user-friendly university entomologist ever, H.A. Turney …
My dad was a Professor of Range Science at Texas A&M. He was a PhD botanist who specialized in ranchland grasses of Texas. As I traveled across Texas in the …
Time was when we thought of color as coming in corner-to-corner beds across the fronts of our houses. Those days are essentially gone. Most of us tired of the effort …
I promised you my own personal checklist of the most critical tasks for the second half of June. Here’s what we’re doing around our landscape and garden. PLANT• New turfgrass …
Remember getting all dressed up for that big date. You looked terrific. But on that last pass past the mirror, there it was – a big pimple right on the …
I was about 12. It was the Christmas holidays, and my seed catalogs had just started arriving. I turned the page and there were the Mallow Marvels – gigantic flowers …