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Bountiful, Beautiful Brugmansias

By Neil Sperry • July 26, 2023

The first time I saw a brugmansia fully grown and totally engulfed in scores of the foot-long pendulous blossoms I thought I had died and gone to a gardener’s heaven. …

Mud Daubers Are Really Your Friends

By Neil Sperry • July 25, 2023

I was answering a question for one of my newspaper columns recently, and the topic was mud daubers. The reader wanted to know how to kill them. I asked if …

Pecan Scab Season Has Arrived

By Neil Sperry • July 25, 2023

Our sunroom is situated (like most of our house) beneath giant pecan trees. And our sunroom has two very large glass skylights. When pecans start falling out of the trees, …

Gardening This Weekend: July 27, 2023

By Neil Sperry • July 25, 2023

It’s still quite warm across Texas, but prospects of fall’s cooler weather are closing in on our calendars. Here are this weekend’s suggested activities. PLANT• New sod as soon as …

Q&A – Ask Neil: July 20, 2023

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2023

(Please read these instructions carefully.)Before you post your question, please look at recent issues to see if someone else has already asked it. You might find your answer there. July …

Would you like to be a Master Gardener?

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2023

When I left my teaching job at Pioneer Vocational High School in Shelby, Ohio, in September 1970, to become Dallas County Extension Horticulturist, I soon knew how it felt to …

Madame Galen Trumpetcreeper

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2023

You probably already have met her, but if not, this is the finest summer-flowering vine we have here in Texas. Madame Galen trumpetcreeper blooms for three months, and it’s adapted …

Gardening This Weekend: July 20, 2023

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2023

Here are the things I’d deem to be most critical for this second half of July. We’ll save the strenuous digging and lifting for a cooler time of the year. …

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