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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, …

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

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 …

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 …

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

Blackeyed-Susan All Dressed Up

By Neil Sperry • June 6, 2023

Goldsturm gloriosa daisies were named the Perennial Plant of the Year in 1999. That’s enough time that we should have them all across Texas, but we don’t (yet). What we …

Fun Plants, Funky Names

By Neil Sperry • June 6, 2023

Iresines caught my eye when I was a teenager. I’d look in through the cooling fans of the Floriculture Department greenhouses at Texas A&M at all the cool plants Prof. …

In Tyler – blooms, bounty and beauty abound by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • June 6, 2023

With its rich horticultural heritage and abundance of natural beauty, it’s no wonder that Tyler, Texas, known as the “Rose Capital of America”, holds bragging rights to the largest rose …

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