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Watch mature trees carefully

By Neil Sperry • May 27, 2025

If you don’t know your shade trees, it pays to know people who know trees. That’s why it’s important to have a certified arborist keep an eye on the trees …

Gardening This Weekend: May 29, 2025

By Neil Sperry • May 27, 2025

Here’s my list of the most time-sensitive gardening things we should accomplish in the next few days. PLANT• New lawngrass from sod, seed or plugs. It’s easier to get new …

Oxalis brings back fond memories

By Neil Sperry • May 20, 2025

I started my career in horticulture mowing yards in College Station about the time Bear Bryant left A&M for the University of Alabama. (Side note: his son and I were …

A New Tool for the Landscape

By Neil Sperry • May 20, 2025

As garden plants go, angelonias have barely reached legal age. Oh, we knew about them 60-70 years ago, and 30-40 years ago a few growers had them in greenhouse collections, …

Messaging with old-fashioned charm – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • May 20, 2025

Who would have thought that blackboards would someday find their way onto covered patios, porches and garden rooms! But unlike the lessons in spelling, math and other subjects that covered …

Gardening This Weekend: May 22, 2025

By Neil Sperry • May 20, 2025

Maybe you’ll be able to squeeze in a few hours for these activities between now and the time you go back to work early next week. PLANT• New turf now …

Time is here to control crape myrtle bark scale

By Neil Sperry • May 14, 2025

This ugly pest has come of legal age here in the United States. First reported in Richardson, Texas, in 2004, it now has spread across the South and up the …

King of the begonias

By Neil Sperry • May 14, 2025

This is not the kind of plant you’d expect to come from the Himalayas. Then again, few of us has actually traveled there, so we probably didn’t know there are …

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