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How many seeds per ounce?

By Neil Sperry • October 9, 2024

When you look at seed catalogs, especially those that nursery growers will be using, they usually tell you how many seeds there will be in one ounce of each type …

One of our best unknown plants

By Neil Sperry • October 9, 2024

Places where smart people garden like North Carolina State University and the Missouri Botanical Garden call this plant “firecracker flower,” or at least that’s the common name they try to …

Gardening This Weekend: October 10, 2024

By Neil Sperry • October 9, 2024

I work hard at this part of e-gardens each week because I know most of you look through it for details of things you need to be doing. I list …

On the “Most Wanted List” for fall

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 2024

I can do this in 5 little paragraphs. (Not counting this one.) 1. To cause allergic reactions, pollen must blow through the wind to your nostrils. That’s why you’ll see …

Fragrant sumac ‘Gro-low’ – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • October 1, 2024

Aromatic, or fragrant sumac is a beautiful deciduous shrub whose natural range extends throughout Texas. In East Texas it always grows in thickets. In West Texas, individual plants are often …

Maximilian sunflowers have been putting on a show

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 2024

Here’s your star of the fall wildflower show, standing proud year after year. It’s a perennial sunflower and it grows along Texas roads and highways where travelers – and bees …

Gardening This Weekend: October 3, 2024

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 2024

Here’s my checklist of the most critical landscaping and gardening goals for early October. PLANT• Cool-season color, including pansies, violas, pinks, snapdragons, ornamental cabbage and kale for late fall, winter …

Here’s the price we pay

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 2024

When you’re growing coleus, you’re growing it for its colorful leaves. The same goes for caladiums. If it’s lamb’s ears, it’s for the large, fuzzy gray leaves that look and …

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