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Gardening This Weekend July 23, 2026

By Neil Sperry • July 21, 2026

Here is my shortened list of gardening responsibilities for this hottest part of our calendar year. PLANT• Crape myrtles now because you have the best selection at area nurseries. Buy …

Holly ferns star in the shade

By Neil Sperry • July 15, 2026

It gets its name from its broad holly-like leaflets, yet this is a fern and it’s well suited to moist, shaded settings beneath large trees, against the north sides of …

Prune with a purpose

By Neil Sperry • July 15, 2026

My wife does most of our driving. It gives me a lot of time to look at landscapes, and that in turn gives me time to see what people are …

Chinch bugs warning for St. Augustine

By Neil Sperry • July 14, 2026

Even as a teenager I took a lot of pride in our St. Augustine lawn there on the east side of College Station back in the late 1950s. When I …

Gardening This Weekend: July 16, 2026

By Neil Sperry • July 14, 2026

If you needed rain, hopefully you got some earlier this week. (But hopefully in tolerable amounts.) And even if you did, don’t roll up the hoses just yet. Keep watering …

Macho fern is Texas-sized

By Neil Sperry • July 8, 2026

When you take your first glance you might think you’re just looking at a Boston fern. Who among us hasn’t seen hundreds of those? But what if it would take …

Rock rose from Texas

By Neil Sperry • July 8, 2026

Climbing over those hillsides of Southwest Texas with my dad while he was doing his research on plants toxic to our state’s sheep and goats, I kept seeing a beautiful …

Poolside style – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • July 8, 2026

It’s summer and the allure of backyard swimming pools is hard to resist. But why not extend the allure beyond the clear sparkling water by using plants and accessories to …

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