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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A Crow Funeral? You Gotta See This!

By Neil Sperry • June 20, 2023

When I was a teenager I had an outdoor aviary with many species of tropical birds. One was a Mynah bird that I taught to speak. Friends would say, “Oh, …

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Looks Worse Than It Is

By Neil Sperry • June 20, 2023

“Neil! Something is eating up my plants’ leaves. There are perfect circles cut out of them. What does that, and how can I stop it?!!!!” That’s the way the call …

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Lovely to Look At

By Neil Sperry • June 20, 2023

Those first three ornamental sweet potatoes Blackie, Marguerite and Tricolor came into the market 30 or 35 years ago. I spent half an hour Web-searching looking for the precise year, …

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Gardening This Weekend: June 22, 2023

By Neil Sperry • June 19, 2023

Here’s your list of the prime gardening activities to work into your early morning and evening hours. PLANT PRUNE FERTILIZE ON THE LOOKOUT

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Honeydew sticks to everything

By Neil Sperry • June 14, 2023

Insects with piercing-sucking mouthparts feed off the sap of their host plants’ stems and leaves. They pass the fluids through their bodies and excrete a residue we call “honeydew.” Our …

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A ray of Sunshine to your gardens

By Neil Sperry • June 14, 2023

This is truly a plant of the 21st Century. Described in the Plant Patent Application from 2007 (https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP20379P2/en), a newly “invented” (their word, not mine) ligustrum named ‘Sunshine’ was discovered …

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Gardening This Weekend: June 15, 2023

By Neil Sperry • June 14, 2023

Tend to these things right away. Stay ahead of any crises. PLANT PRUNE FERTILIZE ON THE LOOKOUT

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