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From the Sperry Garden – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

There is history and a story behind these caladiums. Let’s start with the history. My very good friend Bob Brackman, then of the Dallas Arboretum and now Director of the …

From the Sperry Garden – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

29 years ago this weekend we moved into our home. One of my first landscaping tasks was to lay out beds in front of the house, and this old edging …

From the Sperry Garden – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

The St. Augustine in this part of our lawn has struggled for at least the past 6 or 8 years. However, it’s really gone down hill in the past two …

From the Sperry Garden – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

We moved into our home 29 years ago. Soon thereafter I planted three 5-gallon compact nandinas (the second-tallest of the 7 or 8 common types of nandinas) beneath our living …

From the Sperry Home Garden

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

One of the challenges in pruning junipers is that they are reluctant to send out new branches if you cut away all of the existing ones. Therefore, when you prune …

From the Sperry Garden – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

It was 18 years ago that I marauded California looking for wonderful and unusual haworthias (pint-sized relatives of aloes). I went to 6 or 8 cactus and succulent nurseries and …

An Odd Note from the Sperry Garden

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

It was like a pile of old nursery receipts, that stack of black nursery pots that had grown (and apparently multiplied) behind my greenhouse. It stood as testimony to all …

From the Sperry Garden – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

I am really excited by something I just added to my garden last week! Have you seen them? I have been shopping at one of my radio-sponsoring nurseries (Covingtons/Rowlett) for …

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