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Q&A – Ask Neil: October 3, 2024

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 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. September ...

On the “Most Wanted List” for fall

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 2024

I can do this in 5 little paragraphs. (Not counting this one.) 1. To cause allergic reactions, pollen must blow through the wind to your nostrils. That’s why you’ll see ...

Fragrant sumac ‘Gro-low’ – by Steve Huddleston

By Steve Huddleston • October 1, 2024

Aromatic, or fragrant sumac is a beautiful deciduous shrub whose natural range extends throughout Texas. In East Texas it always grows in thickets. In West Texas, individual plants are often ...

Maximilian sunflowers have been putting on a show

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 2024

Here’s your star of the fall wildflower show, standing proud year after year. It’s a perennial sunflower and it grows along Texas roads and highways where travelers – and bees ...

Gardening This Weekend: October 3, 2024

By Neil Sperry • October 1, 2024

Here’s my checklist of the most critical landscaping and gardening goals for early October. PLANT• Cool-season color, including pansies, violas, pinks, snapdragons, ornamental cabbage and kale for late fall, winter ...

Q&A – Ask Neil: September 26, 2024

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 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. September ...

Here’s the price we pay

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 2024

When you’re growing coleus, you’re growing it for its colorful leaves. The same goes for caladiums. If it’s lamb’s ears, it’s for the large, fuzzy gray leaves that look and ...

Spider plants are fun novelties

By Neil Sperry • September 25, 2024

Yep. It’s the same plant you’ve probably also called “airplant plant.” And however you identify it, it’s one of our most popular hanging basket plants. Odds are you have one ...

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