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Native Plant Road Trip – January, 2008

By Neil Sperry • January 30, 2008

Steven Chamblee’s AFTER photo of his three-acre meadow. My Trip Home "Be careful what you wish for … you just might get it." – American adage I …

Native Plant Road Trip – December, 2007

By Neil Sperry • December 26, 2007

Leaves of the Lacey oak. Photo by Neil Sperry. Lacey Oak at the Heard Museum Got up early for the trip over to McKinney for my annual Father Christmas …

Native Plant Road Trip

By Neil Sperry • November 28, 2007

Ball Moss in La Grange Hopped in a friend’s car and headed down Hwy 71 to a little town called Fayetteville (about halfway between Austin and Houston) to visit some …

Native Son – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 30, 2007

Click image for larger view. Click image for larger view. Photo by: Lisa Adams Grove, Horticulturist, Grapevine Botanic Gardens I just got back from my second pilgrimage to the Garden Writers …

Native Son – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 23, 2007

I remember reading a book years ago entitled The Man Who Planted Trees. I forget who wrote it, but it was a magnificent little novelette heavily laden with superb woodcuts …

Native Son – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 23, 2007

I got a wild hair the other day and decided to go out and have lunch at the Smokestack Restaurant in little ole Thurber, Texas. Now most folks get to …

Native Son – October, 2007

By Neil Sperry • October 23, 2007

John, Paul, George and Eryngo: Road Trip to Tyler Glided smoothly out of Weatherford and took the interstate east to Tyler, rolling through the Metroplex without a hitch, which always …

Uncle Steven

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2007

There’s a scene in the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” where Tim Robbins’ character comes to an epiphany and concludes, “… it’s time to get busy living … or get busy …

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