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Gardening This Weekend: May 26, 2022

By Neil Sperry • May 24, 2022

Maybe you’ll have a little extra time for gardening this weekend, and maybe you won’t. Let me help with your checklist. PLANT• Hot-weather annuals such as lantanas, angelonias, pentas, purple …

Look what Katydid to Basil

By Neil Sperry • May 17, 2022

They’re rather odd-looking insects with strangely long hind legs. They look like they could catapult into the next county. I’ve described them as looking like grasshoppers that got caught in …

Prairie verbena (Glandularia bipinnatifida)

By Neil Sperry • May 17, 2022

We all have our fave flavors and flowers, and this one is near the top of my list. You’ll see this lovely little wildflower thriving and blooming from East Texas …

Gardening This Weekend: May 19, 2022

By Neil Sperry • May 17, 2022

With prospects of maybe a little friendlier weather on our horizon, here are this weekend’s top horticultural jobs for us Texans. PLANT• Hot weather color including fanflowers, pentas, angelonias, purple …

Answers: May 12, 2022

By Neil Sperry • May 10, 2022

Here are this week’s answers: Question 1HOW MUCH IMIDICLOPRID TO APPLY TO CRAPE MYRTLES Dear Neil: I’ve read your information about applying Imidacloprid systemic insecticide as a soil drench to …

Q&A – Ask Neil: May 12, 2022

By Neil Sperry • May 10, 2022

When I began this new section three weeks ago I didn’t know what to expect. The results were humbling, with almost 100 questions posted in the first 18 hours. It’s …

Chomp, chomp, chomp

By Neil Sperry • May 10, 2022

Leaf cutter beeThis industrious insect – that you may never see – uses her mouthparts to cut perfect part-circles out of the edges of leaves. She then takes these leaf …

Tree troubles

By Neil Sperry • May 10, 2022

Lynn and I had had an especially long and hard day last Thursday. We ducked out for early dinner. As I got out of the car I told her I’d …

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