Quick Tip: Removing Tree Seedlings

By Neil Sperry • November 30, 2022

I always dreamed of being a plant propagator. I just didn’t expect it to be of hackberries. But that’s what it’s come to. Somewhere in our 11-acre forest (or in …

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Shout Out to Japanese Maples

By Neil Sperry • November 30, 2022

Hear me clearly, gardener! These aren’t red maples (Acer rubrum). Those are the large trees native to the forests of New England that give them the finest fall color in …

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Birds At Our Feeders

By Neil Sperry • November 22, 2022

We live in a pecan and oak forest along a streambed that’s usually dry, but that can run 6 feet deep in a heavy rain. (We used to have those …

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Fun Ferns

By Neil Sperry • November 21, 2022

When I was a kid I fell asleep at night looking through the pages of my gardening reference books. When I first came across staghorn ferns I could hardly sleep. …

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Gardening This Weekend: November 24, 2022

By Neil Sperry • November 21, 2022

This time of year finds our time filled with family, church, school and holiday things. I’ll pare our list of gotta-do things down to the minimum. And here it is. …

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Still “After-Shaking” 21 Months Later

By Neil Sperry • November 16, 2022

I’ve been advising Texans about their landscapes and gardens for 52 years, but I don’t recall seeing anything quite like the hurt that cold spell of late February 2021 did …

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Quick Spots of Color

By Neil Sperry • November 16, 2022

Before I start my sales pitch on these two plants, a bit of my own history with them. • I’ve always loved carnations (the greenhouse crop). So much so that …

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Gardening This Weekend: November 17, 2022

By Neil Sperry • November 16, 2022

It’s been cool, cloudy and even wet for big parts of the past week across Texas, but good times will come again before mid-winter. Here are the prime things to …

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