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Fragrant sumac ‘Gro-low’ – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • October 1, 2024

Aromatic, or fragrant sumac is a beautiful deciduous shrub whose natural range extends throughout Texas. In East Texas it always grows in thickets. In West Texas, individual plants are often …

Maximilian sunflowers have been putting on a show

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 2024

Here’s your star of the fall wildflower show, standing proud year after year. It’s a perennial sunflower and it grows along Texas roads and highways where travelers – and bees …

Gardening This Weekend: October 3, 2024

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 2024

Here’s my checklist of the most critical landscaping and gardening goals for early October. PLANT• Cool-season color, including pansies, violas, pinks, snapdragons, ornamental cabbage and kale for late fall, winter …

Here’s the price we pay

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 2024

When you’re growing coleus, you’re growing it for its colorful leaves. The same goes for caladiums. If it’s lamb’s ears, it’s for the large, fuzzy gray leaves that look and …

Spider plants are fun novelties

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 2024

Yep. It’s the same plant you’ve probably also called “airplant plant.” And however you identify it, it’s one of our most popular hanging basket plants. Odds are you have one …

In the doghouse … and lovin’ it! – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • September 25, 2024

When it comes to man’s best friend, no amount of pampering is enough … just take a look at doghouses. These days, there are doghouses that are equipped with lights, …

Gardening This Weekend: September 26, 2024

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 2024

Here’s my list. I submit it for your inspection. See how many of these tasks await you at your place. PLANT• Dig and divide spring-blooming perennials such as iris, daylilies, …

When we treat crape myrtles right

By Neil Sperry • September 17, 2024

Anyone who knows me is aware that I’m a fanatic for crape myrtles, the South’s most popular summer-flowering shrub. Lynn and I had been at church in McKinney, then to …

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