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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 …

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 …

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