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Chinese fringe tree – Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • April 2, 2025

Here’s a handsome small tree or large shrub that’s sure to be a highlight in your landscape. And, like so many of our other fine landscape plants, its native home …

Gardening This Weekend: April 3, 2025

By Neil Sperry • April 2, 2025

As the weather warms, we’re going to catch up quickly with our normal spring schedules. Here’s your list of things to accomplish over the next several days. PLANT• Trees, shrubs, …

Why do some hollies never have berries?

By Neil Sperry • March 26, 2025

Does the word “dioecious” ring any bell for you? A botany bell. It means that a particular species bears its male and female flowers on separate plants. One of my …

Resounding Redbuds

By Neil Sperry • March 25, 2025

One of the drawbacks of writing e-gardens from my place in North Texas is that I lag behind you South Texas pacesetters. Your redbuds have finished their season already. Nonetheless, …

Gardening in small spaces – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • March 25, 2025

Whether your gardening space is a balcony, a courtyard, a narrow side yard or a pint-sized backyard, outsmarting small spaces to grow herbs, flowers and vegetables is easier than you …

Gardening This Weekend: March 27, 2025

By Neil Sperry • March 25, 2025

I always look at the last weekend of March as one of the most important times of the entire gardening year. Many things suddenly jump onto our list of tasks …

Getting your lawn back on track

By Neil Sperry • March 19, 2025

Never in the history of Texas lawn-keeping have there been so many people with so many problems. How do you sort through the crises so you can cope with the …

Evergreen clematis a rare beauty

By Neil Sperry • March 19, 2025

I “met” this plant when I stopped by the house of a friend in Plano almost 50 years ago. He had it growing on his chimney, although from the way …

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