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Q&A – Ask Neil: July 20, 2023

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 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. July …

Would you like to be a Master Gardener?

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2023

When I left my teaching job at Pioneer Vocational High School in Shelby, Ohio, in September 1970, to become Dallas County Extension Horticulturist, I soon knew how it felt to …

Madame Galen Trumpetcreeper

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2023

You probably already have met her, but if not, this is the finest summer-flowering vine we have here in Texas. Madame Galen trumpetcreeper blooms for three months, and it’s adapted …

Gardening This Weekend: July 20, 2023

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2023

Here are the things I’d deem to be most critical for this second half of July. We’ll save the strenuous digging and lifting for a cooler time of the year. …

Bad Day to Plant Sod

By Neil Sperry • July 12, 2023

We’ve lived in our house for 46 years. As you can tell from the abandoned homesite across the county road, we are very country. Along with the Sperrys, coyotes, bobcats …

Liriope Solves Many Problems

By Neil Sperry • July 12, 2023

This is my kind of plant. It’s not flamboyant. It’s neat and it’s well-mannered. It plays well with its neighbors, and it seldom asks any special favors. It’s just a …

It’s summer … time to hang out in a hammock

By Diane Morey Sitton • July 12, 2023

The wonderful irony of hammocks is that despite the fact that they provide you with a place to kick back and do nothing more than count the clouds and enjoy …

Gardening This Weekend: July 13, 2023

By Neil Sperry • July 12, 2023

Thank heavens for early mornings and late evenings this time of year. They’re the times when temperatures are at least passingly bearable. (Now let’s work on the humidity.) Here are …

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