Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening Texans’ favorite go-to gardening reference • Hardback, high-quality paper • Printed in Texas by Texans (not in China) • 344 pages and 840 of Neil’s …
As we celebrate our independence and the war it took to win it, let’s do so with peace lilies. But they aren’t really lilies – not even close. They’re related …
I’ve always been a plant geek. Even in junior high, I was collecting and growing plants in our backyard east of the Texas A&M campus. By high school, I was …
When it’s too shady for lawngrass Some people have a hard time believing that it can get too shady to grow turfgrass. But it’s a problem almost all of us …
I planted a large bed of southern wood ferns in one of the shadiest parts of our landscape 35 years ago and they’ve done fabulously ever since. It’s a deciduous …
Most of you are probably aware that Lynn and I live outside McKinney in rural Collin County. That’s fairly far north in the state. As recently as three weekends ago …
They aren’t really lilies – not even close. They’re related to caladiums, anthurriums, philodendrons, dieffenbachias, aglaonemas and other plants with the unusual Jack-in-the-pulpit style blooms. But spathiphyllums do bring a …
When I was a kid I was completely fascinated by the leaf patterns of Rex begonias. But you rarely saw them in nurseries. I’d read about them in old garden …
