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Gardening This Weekend: June 8, 2023

By Neil Sperry • June 6, 2023

When you get some rainfall, as much of Texas has over the past couple of weeks, the humidity makes climbing temperatures all the more uncomfortable. It’s the start of the …

Best Replacements for Redtips

By Neil Sperry • May 30, 2023

It’s a story that needs to be told often. Redtip photinias are highly susceptible to a fungal leaf spot for which we have no preventive treatment and for which there …

Sprinkler Repairs You Can Make

By Neil Sperry • May 30, 2023

I’m not the handiest man in town. My wife and I just spent an hour trying to figure out how to unlock and open an adjustable French door that’s jammed …

Buttonbush Dazzles with Form, Foliage and Flowers by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • May 30, 2023

Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) graces the shorelines of lakes in Texas with its attractive, glossy green leaves and spherical, pincushion-like flowers. Buttonbush grows to form a multi-trunked, large shrub or small …

Gardening This Weekend: June 1, 2023

By Neil Sperry • May 30, 2023

Here’s your list. Some of these things really need immediate attention. Check them all out. PLANT• New lawngrass from sod, seed or plugs.• Hot-weather annuals such as trailing lantana, pentas, …

I’ve Warned You Once…

By Neil Sperry • May 24, 2023

I’ve warned you … make that 10,000 times … that if you don’t protect trees with thin barks from the ravages of sun that they will suffer mightily. Here’s the …

Mimosa, or Silktree Albizzia

By Neil Sperry • May 23, 2023

Let’s get that name thing out of the way first. There’s another plant that stakes claim to the scientific name “Mimosa,” and that’s Mimosa pudica. You may have seen it …

Restore and Pass It Along

By Neil Sperry • May 23, 2023

Two years in a row my wife received a living-plant centerpiece at the Christmas party for a board on which she serves. It was a fresh and vibrant 6-inch pot …

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