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Gardening This Weekend: April 27, 2023

By Neil Sperry • April 26, 2023

Here are the things that need to top your list of goals for these last days of April. PLANT• New lawngrasses from sod, seed or plugs. Soils will be warm …

No Fun with Fire Blight

By Neil Sperry • April 25, 2023

This is a bacterial disease that makes susceptible plants look as though they’ve been hit by a blow torch. It’s serious, and for infected plants, it can be fatal. The …

Chinquapin Oak Comes of Age

By Neil Sperry • April 25, 2023

It’s been in Texas longer than there’s been a Texas. Funny that we gardeners never paid much attention to it. Chinquapin oak, in the past 30 years, has become one …

Take All Taking Its Toll

By Neil Sperry • April 20, 2023

You may have read that in one of my answers in the newspaper a week or two back. I’ve said it or written it dozens of times since warm weather …

St. Joseph’s Lily is Alive and Thriving

By Neil Sperry • April 20, 2023

Every time we get record cold temperatures I worry about several plants in my North Texas gardens. St. Joseph’s lily is near the top of that list. But it always …

Gardening This Weekend: April 20, 2023

By Neil Sperry • April 20, 2023

Make your list of the things you want to accomplish, then put priorities on them. My guess is that what follows will be on many of them. PLANT• Tomatoes and …

Take a “Pass” on Photinias

By Neil Sperry • April 11, 2023

Spring 2023 looks like it’s going to be another banner year for the fungus we’ve all come to know as “Entomosporium.” (You do know it, don’t you? You need to.) …

Plant of the Week: Star Jasmine

By Neil Sperry • April 11, 2023

Star jasmine is basically a vine – much more so than its low-growing sister, Asian jasmine, our state’s most popular full-sun groundcover. But our initial use of star jasmine in …

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