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From The Sperry Garden – May, 2009

By Neil Sperry • May 27, 2009

Neil and His Groundcovers We’ve lived beneath huge, old pecan trees for 32 years now, and it soon became evident that grass just wasn’t going to grow here. St. Augustine …

From The Sperry Garden – April, 2009

By Neil Sperry • April 27, 2009

It’s been probably 15 years since Steve and Anita were kind enough to bring me a start of hardy amaryllis, also known as St. Joseph’s lily. Botanically, it’s Hippeastrum x …

From The Sperry Garden – March, 2009

By Neil Sperry • March 24, 2009

There’s something magical about gardening with a child, and our grandson Alex had a heart-warming wish this past December. Alex announced several weeks before Christmas that what he really wanted …

From The Sperry Garden – February, 2009

By Neil Sperry • February 23, 2009

Actually, I showed you this same cluster of compact nandinas several years ago as I pared it down to about half its former size and started a new bed 30 …

From The Sperry Garden – January, 2009

By Neil Sperry • January 28, 2009

Looking Ahead By A Few Weeks I bought half a dozen of these "species" tulip bulbs off a nursery end cap 30 years ago. I planted them in a dry, …

From the Sperry Garden – December, 2008

By Neil Sperry • December 17, 2008

This hasn’t exactly been a week for outdoor activities in our part of Texas. The first parts of the week got colder than most forecasters expected, and the cold and …

From the Sperry Garden – November, 2008

By Neil Sperry • November 18, 2008

It seems like winter moved in faster than normal this time around. We had a light freeze on October 28, making it, I believe, the third earliest first-freeze date in …

From The Sperry Garden – October, 2008

By Neil Sperry • October 28, 2008

Tropicals heading into the Sperry greenhouse. (Look at that tire!) We had to scurry to get some of my old and beloved tropicals into the greenhouse before the unexpected cold …

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