Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening Holiday Special 2024 • 344 pages and 840 of my best photos. • Hardback, printed on high-quality paper. • I sign every copy as it …
Our Japanese maples (Acer palmatum) have been colorful for more than two weeks. Almost all of them are the variety ‘Bloodgood.’ I always leave the house intending to come home …
The fairly sunny front of our house transitions to a much shadier part of our gardens as you walk around toward the back deck. I tried several different approaches to …
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 …
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 …
