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Important – In case you missed them…

By Neil Sperry • July 16, 2024

Here are several important topics I’ve addressed here in recent weeks, also at this time in the past couple of years. I thought they merited bringing up again in case …

Gardening This Weekend: July 18, 2024

By Neil Sperry • July 16, 2024

Put on your sunscreen, get out early, and accomplish these tasks. PLANT• Warm-season turfgrasses St. Augustine (sod), zoysia (sod) or bermuda (sod or seed). Water in the morning and evening …

Quick Garden Tip from Neil

By Neil Sperry • July 9, 2024

I present to you here a group of plants that really should never be allowed to come into flower. These are all plants that we grow for foliage, whether colorful, …

Cora Cascade Trailing Vincas Perform

By Neil Sperry • July 9, 2024

(Photo credits to my friend Kenneth Cranfill, retired greenhouse operator who produced tens of thousands of flats of vincas and other fabulous annuals for North Texas gardeners in his decades-long …

Life is better on the porch – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • July 9, 2024

It’s hard to be sure, but when you’re sitting on the porch the lemonade seems sweeter, the breezes seem cooler, and the birdsong seems more melodious than usual. Even life’s …

Gardening This Weekend: July 11, 2024

By Neil Sperry • July 9, 2024

Things move in fast forward when it gets hot. Here are things to check off your list this weekend. PLANT• Last call for planting fall tomatoes for most of the …

From the Sperry Garden: Peace Lilies

By Neil Sperry • July 1, 2024

They aren’t really lilies – not even close. They’re related to caladiums, anthurriums, philodendrons, dieffenbachias, aglaonemas and other plants with the unusual Jack-in-the-pulpit style blooms. But spathiphyllums do bring a …

Smilax, the briar

By Neil Sperry • July 1, 2024

We bought the 11 acres on which we live more than 50 years ago. It had a certain charm because it had a creek bed running through it. What I …

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