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Just call it durable

By Neil Sperry • August 30, 2022

It’s a venerable old goat, this tree that grows along riverbanks, roadsides, rocky slopes and hillside meadows. Most commonly, you’ll see it growing in old fence rows, sometimes planted on …

Gardening This Weekend: September 1, 2022

By Neil Sperry • August 30, 2022

Here are starters for the Labor Day weekend. You might want to check through them. PLANT• Nursery stock for fall landscaping. Garden centers are restocking and fall is a great …

Sometimes You Just Start Over

By Neil Sperry • August 24, 2022

During the pandemic my wife and I ate in our car more than we cared to. I sat looking at this poor lacebark elm on several occasions and my heart …

Copper plants are long-time favorites

By Neil Sperry • August 23, 2022

By the time I was 13 or 14 I pretty well knew what I wanted to do. It was going to involve landscaping, nurseries or greenhouses. There was fine-tuning still …

Prime Time for Pre-emergents

By Neil Sperry • August 23, 2022

I want to make this as understandable as possible. Let me put it in bullets in a logical sequence. I’m going to try to keep it simple (only way I …

Gardening This Weekend: August 25, 2022

By Neil Sperry • August 23, 2022

This is the last e-gardens of summer (next week will be September), so these are a bit of a wrap-up of things you’ll want to get done. PLANT• Leafy and …

Warning of the Week: Red Oak Trunks

By Neil Sperry • August 16, 2022

Actually, this same information applies to other thin-barked trees such as Chinese pistachios and red maples. And the preventive measure is non-negotiable. You’d better read it! When someone asks me …

Devil of an Ivy

By Neil Sperry • August 16, 2022

I grew up with this plant. And we have three of them in the house as I type this. I have them growing beneath one of the 50-foot benches in …

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