January often feels like the quietest part of the gardening year, but it is actually one of the most important. The steps we ...

Remember the old-fashioned bulletin board? Remember the door of the fridge plastered with sticky notes? As the game of springtime kicks off in Texas, a gardener’s list grows long very quickly. Here ...

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“If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?” One peck is the correct answer, which is a quarter of a bushel or approximately 12 pounds and that ...

Each year, Central Texas gardeners face eminent heat, drought, floods or freezes, sometimes all four. The following story ran July 11, 2022, just months after a major freeze, and just before our ...

Two hummingbirds hovering on a flower - Bill Draker/Getty Images Imagine a creature lighter than a penny taking a journey well over hundreds of miles just to survive the winter. This is exactly what ...

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 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - South Texas Gardener Dan Caballero joins Caitilin Espinosa on 3 News First Edition to show off a variety of grasses. Caballero says grasses are very low maintenance, as ...

Style up beautiful spaces in drought’s water restrictions; a new gardener starts a cottage garden. Style up beautiful, wildlife-friendly gardens that stand up to scalding summers and deep winter ...

Gather garden design ideas and tour a dynamic native plant urban wildlife sanctuary. Gather ideas from design styles, philosophies, and stories behind garden creation. A terraced garden built from ...

As a gardener I haven’t experienced squirrels in my yard. My dogs seem to keep them at bay. But I was recently reading through Texas A&M AgriLife publications and found a great article about how large ...