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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, …

An Insect We Will Know Too Well

By Neil Sperry • July 6, 2022

Emerald ash borers came into the United States 20 years ago. First observed in Southeastern Michigan in 2002 they’ve now been identified in 35 states (including Texas) and credited with …

It’s always time for four o’clocks

By Neil Sperry • July 5, 2022

There are those who love four o’clocks… and there are those who haven’t yet grown them. They’re handsome annuals or tender perennials you’ll see in old heirloom gardens, along fencerows …

Summer tomatoes

By Neil Sperry • July 5, 2022

Anyone who has bought Big Boy, Beefsteak, Whopper or one of the other “burger-sized” slicing tomatoes to grow in a Texas garden has found out the hard way that they …

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