Winterizing Your Landscape
As fall comes and temperatures moderate, it’s more fun to get out in our yards and landscapes and perform tasks we postponed during the heat of late summer.
01Nov
01Oct
Japanese Maple Sale Oct 7-13
The sale begins Friday, 10/7 at 7:00am and lasts until Wednesday, 10/13 at 9:00pm. Pickup is Thursday, 10/27 from 1:00-2:00pm.
01Sep
How to Help the Monarch Butterflies
This year we probably won’t see as many monarchs as usual in North Texas. Our late winter freeze and low temperatures in March delayed
01Aug
Harvesting Garlic
Garlic is an easy to grow plant. Plant it toward the end of October or first part of November to harvest in summer. Like other members of the genus Allium, garlic survives nicely over winter.
01Jul
Living with Houseplants
A houseplant is a plant that can thrive in normal (not greenhouse) indoor conditions. That means they thrive where we live, with the same light, temperature, space, and humidity. And we provide the food and water.
01Jun
How to Successfully Collect Seeds
A seed is a flowering plant’s unit of reproduction capable of developing into another such plant.
04May
Tree Diversity: Every Tree Has Its Day
Do you know what the United States’ National Tree (officially and unofficially) is? You are right if you answered: the oak tree.
12Apr
Confessions of a Frugal Gardener
As an avid proponent of not throwing away anything that has a useful second life, I created and give a talk on the subject as a member of the Dallas
01Mar
North Texas Gardening: Winter to Early Spring
I must confess that, though I love being a gardener, I sometimes covet my relatives who live in Cleveland, Ohio. They
01Feb
Birds In Your Backyard
Watching colorful birds eating, nesting, and raising their young is a great way to relax and marvel at nature. Setting
