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From the Sperry Gardens

By gdrew • June 25, 2013

It seemed like it took forever to get the plants out of the greenhouse and into our landscape this year. Spring kept getting interrupted by cold spells every Wednesday. Now …

From the Sperry Gardens

By Neil Sperry • May 29, 2013

Back in the ’80s, I fell in love with haworthias. I started collecting them, and my numbers grew to more than 400 species and varieties. (But I’m NOT obsessive!) I …

From the Sperry Garden – Yaupon Holly

By Neil Sperry • April 24, 2013

It was 1978. We had just moved into a new house a year earlier. We had two youngsters, and a third was in the planning stage. New mortgage. Two new …

From the Sperry Garden

By Neil Sperry • March 27, 2013

We’ve lived in our house for 37 years. It was in a pecan forest then, and the only thing that has changed since then is that it’s in what our …

From the Sperry Garden – January, 2013

By Neil Sperry • January 2, 2013

Tender aspidistras (cast iron plants) are huddled beneath frost cloth in Sperry landscape. Protect your sensitive plants by covering them during extreme cold. Lightweight floating row covers ("frost cloth") from …

From the Sperry Gardens – November, 2012

By Neil Sperry • November 28, 2012

This fall has been a really nice one for Chinese pistachios, red oaks, sweetgums and ornamental pears — and for the maples in our landscape. (See certified arborist Bill Seaman’s …

From the Sperry Gardens – October, 2012

By Neil Sperry • October 24, 2012

We bought our little 11-acre rural spot in 1971 with the intent of raising our kids outside of the big city environment. Somehow, we managed to fit our house into …

From the Sperry Gardens – September, 2012

By Neil Sperry • September 20, 2012

Each fall, before I shut things down for the winter, I take cuttings of the plants I most want to perpetuate in my landscape for another year. These peperomias fit …

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