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A Pest of Little Concern

By Neil Sperry • October 11, 2022

I’ve been holed up working on a couple of big projects the past two weeks. (Admittedly, one of them was finishing up taxes.) I haven’t been out observing landscapes quite …

Gardening This Weekend: October 13, 2022

By Neil Sperry • October 11, 2022

With delightful weather in the days ahead, here are things you’ll want to get done. PLANT• Pansies, violas, snapdragons, pinks and ornamental cabbage and kale for winter color.• Spring-flowering perennials …

Pumpkin Shows Abound

By Neil Sperry • October 11, 2022

One of my first dates with my bride of now 55-plus years was to the Circleville Pumpkin Show in Pickaway County, Ohio. Lynn grew up on a farm outside neighboring …

Rocking chairs…
The American invention that keeps on rockin’

By Diane Morey Sitton • October 11, 2022

When I am old and worse for wearI want to buy a rocking-chairAnd set it on a porch where shineThe stars of morning-glory vine;With just beyond, a gleam of grassA …

KR Bluestem – grass of forage or horror?

By Neil Sperry • October 4, 2022

If you Google “King Ranch bluestem” or simply “KR bluestem” and follow that up with the name of any southern Land Grant University (ag college) you’re going to find a …

Beauty in the Night

By Neil Sperry • October 4, 2022

Here are some of the basic facts you’ll want to know about this fascinating group of plants… • They are members of the Cactus plant family.• They have no thorns.• …

Sticky, Gooey Mess of Pecans

By Neil Sperry • October 4, 2022

In 45 years of living in a pecan forest I have never seen this problem this bad. Our big trees’ branches are 30-50 feet above me, but the honeydew drizzle …

Gardening This Weekend: October 6, 2022

By Neil Sperry • October 4, 2022

Nurseries have been proclaiming that “Fall is for Planting” for several decades. Let’s join in that chorus. This is a great time to be a gardener in Texas! PLANT• Pansies, …

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