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Q&A – Ask Neil: December 7, 2023

By Neil Sperry • December 5, 2023

(Please read these instructions carefully.)Before you post your question, please look at recent issues to see if someone else has already asked it. You might find your answer there. November …

Wintertime Watering

By Neil Sperry • December 5, 2023

When a plant has lost all its leaves for the winter, it’s pretty difficult to know when it’s dry. It won’t wilt! So, how’s a gardener to know when it’s …

New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

By Neil Sperry • November 27, 2023

The United States Department of Agriculture has been tabulating and releasing a map of the lowest temperature that might be expected county-by-county across the entire United States. It’s an extremely …

The latest on rose rosette virus

By Neil Sperry • November 27, 2023

It’s a disease that was first found in wild roses east of the Rockies more than 80 years ago. It had been observed across the entire country within 20 years, …

The story behind Nellie R. Stevens hollies

By Neil Sperry • November 27, 2023

I met this beautiful lady, Nellie R. Stevens, the holly, in November 1970. One of the members of my Extension advisory committee, Steve Dodd of Dodd’s Garden Center in Dallas …

GARDENING THIS WEEKEND: NOVEMBER 30, 2023

By Neil Sperry • November 27, 2023

Normal people spend most of December focusing on the holidays. But we gardeners never claimed to be normal, so here are a few things you’ll want to accomplish in this …

Great time for planting mondograss

By Neil Sperry • November 20, 2023

I’ve told you elsewhere in this week’s e-gardens that we live in an 11-acre forest that’s on both sides of a dry stream bed. However, when heavy rains come, that …

Stunning Changes in Cyclamen

By Neil Sperry • November 20, 2023

When I was a young horticulturist just getting started in greenhouse production of flowering plants, we spent a few moments learning about cyclamen. Moments. They were just too difficult, too …

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