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Gardening This Weekend: July 28, 2022

By Neil Sperry • July 26, 2022

I’ll keep the list short again since it’s still best to be out in the garden morning and evening. Here are this weekend’s prime tasks. PLANT• Bush beans, cucumbers, squash …

Still a Critical Issue

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2022

I addressed this earlier this year here, but many people must have missed it. New plants must be watered by hand for their first couple of years in their new …

‘Tropical Giant’ Spider Lily

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2022

Steve Huddleston from the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and BRIT showcases a particular plant each Sunday morning at 8:06 as I open up my program on WBAP 820AM. This past …

Gardening This Weekend: July 21, 2022

By Neil Sperry • July 19, 2022

Short and to the point. That’s how I’ll keep these notes. Nobody needs to be outside any more than necessary right now. PLANT• Spend time Web-surfing wildflower seed sources and …

Ted Nichols-Payne was one of a kind

By Neil Sperry • July 13, 2022

It was somewhere back in the late 1980s. I really don’t remember. Exact dates don’t matter. I just remember coming in to do my radio program from KRLD there at …

Rock Rose Pavonia: Native and Nice

By Neil Sperry • July 11, 2022

I spent many summers working the hillsides of South Central and West Texas for my dad as he did his herbicide research for Texas A&M. I saw a lot of …

Showcase time and tradition with a sundial

By Diane Morey Sitton • July 11, 2022

Let others tell of storms and showers,I’ll only count your sunny hours.Sundial inscription from 1767 If ever there was a timepiece that passed the test of time, it’s the sundial—the …

Gardening This Weekend: July 14, 2022

By Neil Sperry • July 11, 2022

In the spirit of getting you back indoors as quickly as possible, here’s your abbreviated checklist for this middle week of the summer. PLANT• Fall color annuals, including hybrid purslane, …

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