Neil Sperry’s Lone Star Gardening • 344 pages and 840 of my best photos. • Hardback, printed on high-quality paper. • I sign every copy as it sells. • Covers …
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 …
Prime Time For Plant Propagation If you ever wanted to start your own plants, late September/early October is one of the best times of the entire year to do so. …
Our landscape gets little direct sunlight. Areas that once were turf are now relegated either to groundcovers or container gardens. Sure, I could put in big beds for caladiums, coleus, …
We’ve spent the past four months remodeling my office at home. It was pretty much a tear-down-and-start-over because the old, flat roof had just about given out. Squirrels in the ceiling …
This wonderful ‘Raspberry Ice’ bougainvillea has occupied this same spot in our landscape for the past 20 years. Every spring it returns to its post. Every late fall, it makes …
I’ve had many of these haworthias, aloes, gasterias and other succulents for 20 or more years, and for every day of their lives until 2008, they have lived in my …
I learned a long time ago that most flowers do their best in absolutely full sunlight. The shadier it gets, the fewer flowers you see. I switched over to tropical …
Photo by Neil Sperry If you listen to me on the weekends on KRLD or TSN, you hear me talking about using tropical plants for color and textural interest in …