Gardening This Weekend: October 12, 2023

By Neil Sperry • October 9, 2023

Many nurseries are marking their plants down. They’ve hung out the banners proclaiming, “Fall is for Planting!” (accurately so!). It’s a great time to be a gardener! PLANT• Spring-flowering perennials …

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When Reality Reigns

By Neil Sperry • October 4, 2023

I can still hear my dad say the words. “A plant is only native where you find it growing in nature, Neil.” My dad had his PhD in botany from …

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Masters at their Craft

By Neil Sperry • October 4, 2023

This past Monday couldn’t come fast enough. When that huge limb blew out of our red oak early the morning of August 20, I immediately worried about the other shoe, …

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Fall for Fall Aster – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • October 2, 2023

During the growing season, fall aster assumes a perfectly mounded shape, grows 2 to 3 ft. tall and 3 ft. wide. It’s easy to miss it. It gives the appearance …

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Gardening This Weekend: October 5, 2023

By Neil Sperry • October 2, 2023

Here are the things I’d put at the top of my list to get done over the next several days. PLANT• Annual ryegrass to give winter green grass for bare …

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Ragweed Somehow Survives

By Neil Sperry • September 26, 2023

I’ve been watching the roadside patches of ragweed throughout these months of heat and drought. Other plants, even many of the natives, have looked sad and bedraggled, but somehow the …

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Don’t Be Scared of These Spiders

By Neil Sperry • September 26, 2023

My earliest memories of fall-flowering bulbs in College Station are of spider lilies in the oldest yards around the campus. It would be exciting to know the history behind how …

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Wagon wheels … on a roll in gardens – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • September 25, 2023

It’s hard to say what makes wagon wheels so garden-friendly. For starters, they are remarkably versatile. You see them lined up as fences, welded into gates, and used as legs …

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