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Q&A – Ask Neil: December 5, 2024

By Neil Sperry • December 4, 2024

(Please read these instructions carefully.)Before you post your question, please look at recent issues to see if someone else has already asked it. You might find your answer there. November ...

Another flower of the season

By Neil Sperry • December 4, 2024

We have all kinds of oddities in this great group of bulbs. It’s going to be a pleasure uncovering them for you. • They’re not actually “Amaryllis,” but in the ...

Winter Honeysuckle – Sweetness to spare

By Steve Huddleston • December 4, 2024

Because winter honeysuckle is somewhat of an “ugly duckling,” you may not find it in garden centers. But you can grow it from seed or cuttings yourself. And when you ...

Personal perspective on ginkgoes

By Neil Sperry • December 4, 2024

If you’ve read me very long you’ve known that I rank ginkgoes as one of my top secondary trees for a home landscape – not as a large shade tree, ...

Gardening This Weekend: December 5, 2024

By Neil Sperry • December 4, 2024

Here’s my condensed list for this first part of December – gardening tasks that deserve your consideration. PLANT• Pansies, pinks, ornamental cabbage and kale and other winter color to spruce ...

If I could have only one tree…

By Neil Sperry • November 27, 2024

I’ve had a theory all my professional career: “Wherever you live in this world, if there is an oak species that grows there, it’s going to be your best choice ...

Q&A – Ask Neil: November 28, 2024

By Neil Sperry • November 26, 2024

(Please read these instructions carefully.)Before you post your question, please look at recent issues to see if someone else has already asked it. You might find your answer there. November ...

Reshaping Vitex

By Neil Sperry • November 26, 2024

Back when our grandmas were little toddler girls, vitex was a hot plant in Texas. It’s also called “lilac chaste tree” for some reason I choose not to explore and ...

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