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When a Yucca Isn’t a Yucca – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • July 6, 2023

Red yuccas are at least related to yuccas, but they’re in a different genus. That means that they’re cousins. They’re also outstanding landscaping plants for big parts of Texas. The …

Best of the Smaller Shade Trees

By Neil Sperry • July 6, 2023

Homeowners’ associations do some silly things – like requiring that each house have two shade trees per front yard and then handing out their approved list with nothing but super-large …

The Cicadas Are Deafening

By Neil Sperry • July 5, 2023

For the past couple of weeks if we step outside around dusk or anytime until dawn it sounds like 100db of pure cicada symphony playing all through our pecan and …

Gardening This Weekend – July 6, 2023

By Neil Sperry • July 5, 2023

PLANT PRUNE FERTILIZE ON THE LOOKOUT

Quick Tip on Watering New Plants

By Neil Sperry • June 28, 2023

If you only have time to read one sentence about watering new plants in your landscape, here it is: “You must water newly planted trees and shrubs by hand for …

‘John Fanick’ Summer Phlox Shines

By Neil Sperry • June 28, 2023

If you’re from the North, you’re familiar with summer phlox and the glorious tall show they put on in the perennial garden. That’s not surprising, because Phlox paniculata is native …

Fall is Time for Tomatoes

By Neil Sperry • June 28, 2023

Dr. Sam Cotner and even before Sam, Dr. John Larsen, two fine vegetable specialists with Texas AgriLife Extension of Texas A&M showed us the way: Set out fall tomato transplants …

Gardening This Weekend: June 29, 2023

By Neil Sperry • June 28, 2023

Here are the mid-summer assignments for the first weekend of July. If it’s too hot in the daytime, do them by the light of your 4th of July sparklers. PLANT …

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