Here’s you a pretty Native Texan

By Neil Sperry • September 17, 2024

We all strive to feature our native plants when we’re developing our landscapes. That’s fairly easy when it comes to picking shade trees, but it’s more challenging when we have …

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Gardening This Weekend: September 19, 2024

By Neil Sperry • September 17, 2024

Here are the things I consider most critical for the last 10 days of September. See what you think of my list. PLANT• This is singly the best time of …

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Spider lilies all over the place

By Neil Sperry • September 10, 2024

About the time fall arrived in College Station the spider lilies sent up their bloom stalks. I grew up just a few blocks off the campus in a neighborhood that’s …

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Here’s a weed you don’t want

By Neil Sperry • September 10, 2024

It was the 1920s. Texas ranchers were looking for forage grasses that could hold the soil and stand up to Texas heat and drought and feed their cattle. The Native …

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“Shhh, it’s a secret!” A secret garden, that is! By Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • September 10, 2024

Say the words “secret garden” to gardeners, and it conjures up images of a verdant hideaway – serene, private, and so quiet you can almost hear the unfurling of flower …

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Gardening This Weekend: September 12, 2024

By Neil Sperry • September 10, 2024

Here’s my list of the things that matter most for the middle of September. Hopefully you can get them all done in time that you can watch your favorite team …

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Time has come for pre-emergent application

By Neil Sperry • September 4, 2024

It felt awkward back two weeks ago. I was trying to tell you to apply pre-emergent granules to protect your lawn from winter weeds. I told you then that the …

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Quick tip from Nature

By Neil Sperry • September 4, 2024

I’m not sure where I was when I took this little photo. It was an abandoned old landscape where nature was reclaiming the ground. All these seedlings were staking their …

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