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From the Sperry Garden – January, 2010

By Neil Sperry • January 27, 2010

This past weekend, a gentleman called my DFW radio program to ask about replacements for an old dwarf Chinese holly planting he was in the process of removing. I told …

From the Sperry Garden – December, 2009

By Neil Sperry • December 28, 2009

I took a stroll through our landscape earlier this week, and I really didn’t find anything newsworthy. So, I thought I’d dip into last summer’s photos to show you one …

From the Sperry Garden – November, 2009

By Neil Sperry • November 18, 2009

If you tell someone that garden pinks are related to carnations, they can see (and smell) that it’s true. They’re in the genus Dianthus, same as the florist’s crop, but …

From the Sperry Garden – October, 2009

By Neil Sperry • October 28, 2009

Alex has enjoyed growing vegetables in his garden at our house, both in the spring and this fall. We were planning just Saturday about how we would expand it a …

Haworthias, Aloes and More

By Neil Sperry • September 23, 2009

I’ve been a collector all my life. Rocks from West Texas, daylilies, model cars, baseball cards, daylilies, cacti and succulents, more daylilies, rocks from my time at Colorado State, clocks, …

From the Sperry Garden – August, 2009

By Neil Sperry • August 26, 2009

We don’t have much sun in our landscape. Massive pecan trees shroud most of it, to the point that flowering plants present some pretty serious challenges in our beds. Many …

From the Sperry Garden – July, 2009

By Neil Sperry • July 29, 2009

Sometimes you just don’t want more hard-surfaces through your gardens. Perhaps you don’t have enough pavers. (I ran out of these antique street pavers in a seldom-visited area toward the …

From The Sperry Gardens – June, 2009

By Neil Sperry • June 23, 2009

From the first week I served as Dallas County Extension Horticulturist in 1970, my good friend the late Steve Dodd, Sr. introduced me to hollies. After all, he’d come from …

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