Steven Chamblee, Author at Neil Sperry's GARDENS

There is no sweeter fragrance!

By Neil Sperry • April 24, 2025

My greenhouse is across the creek from our house. I went over a couple of evenings ago to set plants I wanted to bring to our landscape for the summer ...

Bygone Byzantine gladiolus

By Neil Sperry • April 24, 2025

Here’s an understated perennial for almost any Texas garden – one that establishes strong clumps and keeps coming back for decades, even when it’s essentially been abandoned. History of the ...

Q&A – Ask Neil: April 24, 2025

By Neil Sperry • April 23, 2025

(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. April ...

Fairy garden – ready for occupancy – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • April 23, 2025

In the realm of make-believe, the best way to lure fairies is by providing a miniature garden containing a fairy house surrounded by diminutive plants and tiny accessories. Word has ...

Gardening This Weekend: April 24, 2025

By Neil Sperry • April 23, 2025

I certainly haven’t been in every city in Texas this spring. Yet! But those that I have look like they all could use a little tuning up of their landscapes ...

Floricultural Factoids from the land of the Buckeyes

By Neil Sperry • April 16, 2025

The time was back in the ‘60s. A&M had only 3 students left in Floriculture (horticulture applied to greenhouse production). Ohio State, by comparison, had more than 240. I immediately ...

Texas Gold columbines shine

By Neil Sperry • April 16, 2025

You’ll see this plant’s mother growing natively in the Big Bend Country of Brewster County, Southwest Texas. That’s arid terrain, but somehow it has found ponds at the bases of ...

Native Son: Springtime

By Steven Chamblee • April 16, 2025

I thought I would share some thoughts from a friend of mine, Wendy Stoll, a talented landscape designer in Wimberley. You think it would be the flower –All wild flame ...

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