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Gardening This Weekend: May 25, 2023

By Neil Sperry • May 23, 2023

If you have a few hours to spend in the landscape and garden, here are some things you might want to accomplish this weekend. PLANT• Nurseries may have markdowns on …

Pecan leaves are breaking out

By Neil Sperry • May 16, 2023

It looks pretty serious, these galls that are showing up on pecan leaves about now. They’re called pecan phylloxera galls, and they’re caused by tiny gnats that lay their eggs …

Three Great Perennials for May

By Neil Sperry • May 16, 2023

Perennial gardens require a bit of planning so you’ll have a good sequence of bloom from early spring until late in the fall. May is an unusual month, because the …

Gardening This Weekend: May 18, 2023

By Neil Sperry • May 16, 2023

Week in and week out, this is the most looked-at section of e-gardens. If you find it useful, Chapter 2 of Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening will be right up …

Fill your garden with flowers – no water needed – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • May 10, 2023

We’re all familiar with the old English adage, “April showers bring May flowers.” For many gardeners, those blooms come in the form of garden art flowers. Whether bold metal sunflowers, …

Time Is Here to Treat Crape Myrtles

By Neil Sperry • May 10, 2023

Crape myrtles have been the most popular summer-flowering shrubs in the South for the past 200 years. Sure, they’ve had a few issues with powdery mildew, but aphids and a …

You’re Not Supposed To Be Here!

By Neil Sperry • May 10, 2023

No matter how hard you try you’re going to have trouble growing peonies in Texas. My parents were from Nebraska. They were Cornhuskers before they were Lobos before they were …

Gardening This Weekend: May 11, 2023

By Neil Sperry • May 9, 2023

Weeks don’t get any busier than May when you have school kids or grandkids around. Concerts, graduations, weddings, parties. And that’s just this weekend. Let’s look at the gardening things …

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