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Floricultural Factoids from the land of the Buckeyes

By Neil Sperry • April 16, 2025

The time was back in the ‘60s. A&M had only 3 students left in Floriculture (horticulture applied to greenhouse production). Ohio State, by comparison, had more than 240. I immediately …

Texas Gold columbines shine

By Neil Sperry • April 16, 2025

You’ll see this plant’s mother growing natively in the Big Bend Country of Brewster County, Southwest Texas. That’s arid terrain, but somehow it has found ponds at the bases of …

Gardening This Weekend: April 17, 2025

By Neil Sperry • April 15, 2025

Let me list some highlight kinds of things you might try to get done over this holiday weekend. It is, after all, a great time to be gardening. PLANT• Summertime …

Better solution to a challenging problem

By Neil Sperry • April 10, 2025

I decided 35 or 40 years ago that I just needed to get right to the point in answering one particular question that kept coming up. “Neil, my red oak’s …

Autumn sage is one of our finest

By Neil Sperry • April 9, 2025

Autumn sage came into the Texas nursery marketplace during my career. In those ensuing years it’s become a mainstay for many of our gardens. Here are some reasons I like …

Putting petals to metal – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • April 9, 2025

To some gardeners, galvanized containers reinforce farmhouse style; to other gardeners, the soft gray patina of galvanized containers suggests industrial decor; still others, when seeing a galvanized pot inscribed with …

Gardening This Weekend: April 10, 2025

By Neil Sperry • April 9, 2025

Perhaps we’re done with the cold-weather and rain delays to our springtime gardening. Here’s your “to-do” list for this weekend. PLANT• Warm-season annual color, including marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, celosias, coleus, …

Chinese snowball viburnum

By Neil Sperry • April 2, 2025

I can get right to my point with this plant. If you have a spot where you’d like a large plant that will make a dramatic statement as spring opens …

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