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Gardening This Weekend – March 20, 2025

By Neil Sperry • March 19, 2025

Cool nights and warm days make for great gardening weather. We can put up with a few sidesteps now and then, but this is the time to celebrate springtime in …

Peg ‘em down, Paul

By Neil Sperry • March 12, 2025

Tree trunks are supposed to be vertical. It’s the way they grow naturally. If a tree’s out of plumb, it will drive some of us nuts just to drive by …

Purple Wintercreeper Euonymus

By Neil Sperry • March 12, 2025

My story dates back to the early 1980s. Lynn and I had just bought a house for my mom. I had finished up a fairly simple landscape, but I had …

Birdscaping takes wing – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • March 12, 2025

The chatter of bluebirds, the flash of a cardinal’s wing, the calming coo-coo-coo of a dove: few things animate gardens as much as birds, and there’s no better time than …

Gardening This Weekend: March 13, 2025

By Neil Sperry • March 12, 2025

We’re seeing great weather most days ahead. Here are the things you’ll want to get done. PLANT• Warm-season annual color can be planted now in the southern half of the …

Gardening This Weekend – March 6, 2025

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2025

It’s been tough to be a tulip this spring in Texas. Or a pansy, or a daffodil. When the cold doesn’t get you, the 75 mph winds will. But we …

Saucer Magnolias popping their blossoms

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2025

We might have expected to see their rare beauty a few weeks before now, but two cold spells, one of them just a couple of weeks back, delayed the very …

Choose the Best Mowing Height

By Neil Sperry • March 5, 2025

Success in lawnkeeping depends on following a few basic rules. One of those applies to mowing heights. Here are your guidelines. Our southern lawns are basically runner-producing grasses. If we …

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