After the freeze of 2021, some Central Texans lost entire gardens. Green thumbs with better luck still got a reminder to add extended freezes to the list of Texas weather monsters that can endanger ...

Horticulturist Neil Sperry, who has written a weekly garden column for the Express-News since 1995, has compiled a new guide for Texas gardeners. "Lone Star Gardening" offers everything from garden ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) — Perhaps you've noticed the early bloomers over the last few weeks. Red buds especially are putting on a great show, and this might have you thinking of trees you might ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - As your spring-season greens give up in the summer heat, replace them with easy-to-grow summer crops like sweet potatoes, summer peas and okra. Summer peas include ...

Knowing when to do things in your vegetable garden is just as important as knowing what to do. I’m a veteran of 52 of these battles with the Texas weather, soils and pests, and I can tell you that the ...

Technically, we are in the middle of spring, but it seems as though summer has arrived as our daytime temperature is above 90℉ many days. Yet, according to the Farmer’s almanac, we have roughly six ...

Dear Neil: I struggle each year, actually two times per year, in knowing when it’s time to take out my summer plants and replace them with the winter plants, and then when the converse happens in late ...

Summer isn’t typically a Texas gardener’s season of choice, and this summer has been especially demoralizing. The heat, the sun, the drought, and the constancy of all three renders plants—and those ...

The right tools can make all the difference in your gardening and landscaping efforts. Getty Images Experts in every field have their tried-and-true product toolkits, and that’s especially true for ...

Dear Neil: Our city’s Chamber of Commerce tries to keep flowers in large 30-inch round pots that are 24 inches deep at each of the four corners of major intersections in our downtown area. We have ...

With White Rock Lake and the Dallas skyline visible in the background, Kathy Caldwell walks along with her daughter, Alyssa Caldwell, 13, during their visit at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical ...