Gardening
These Tips From The Pros Can Help You Keep Your Pool Sparkling
By Merry Wise
Pool season is here! The weather is warm, and it’s time to enjoy the pool once again. Use these useful professional …
Eco-friendly plants save gardening effort
Garden beds and borders, artfully filled with a colorful tapestry of flowers and foliage, are very much back in vogue. But unlike the traditional perennial beds and borders, which were labor …
By Melinda Myers
Enjoy herbs all year round. Harvest herbs now for garden-fresh meals and then preserve a few for winter.
Snip a few leaves or leaf-covered stems as needed. For the same intensity of flavor, you …
Plant Bulbs Now That Will Flower In Spring
By Melinda Myers
Shorten the winter season with the help of spring flowering bulbs that you plant in fall. These beauties often provide the first bit of color, fragrance …
Protect Yourself With These Recommendations
By Melinda Myers
Don’t let disease-carrying mosquitoes keep you indoors this summer. Instead, employ these eight tips to protect yourself and manage these pests in your yard.
Do a bit of yard …
Spring is upon us, and as warm weather blossoms begin to burst, few are as stunning and impressive as the eye-catching exotic hibiscus. Also known as “the Queen of the Tropics,” hibiscus colors range from snowy white to yellow, orange, peach, pink, red, purple, lavender, blue and brown.
You and the pollinators will enjoy the benefits!
By Melinda Myers
Whether planting a garden, enjoying the beauty of your landscape or sitting down to a delicious meal, you have bees, butterflies and other pollinators to thank. …
Follow This Plan And Prepare To Be Amazed
Dahlias provide some of the garden’s biggest and most spectacular blooms. The flowers come in a rainbow of colors and many different styles and sizes, and all are …
Make Your Yard Attractive To The Wildlife You Want
We gardeners have a choice. We can fill our landscapes with plants based purely on their looks alone, or we can deliberately select those that bring in …
Texas rose breeder likes lots of colorful, fragrant blooms
New Marylandica type forms “mounds of color”
By Robert Burns
What really got the Texas Superstar board members excited about fall zinnias were some new series, including the marylandica types that form disease-resistant “mounds of color,” lasting …
AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE OFFERS TIPS ON DEALING WITH THE PESTS
Site visits and numerous calls from around Fort Bend county have confirmed another generation of walnut caterpillars feeding on pecan foliage. The majority of cases range …
Pruning a rose garden a few times each season enables the plants to grow full and lush, and assists in fighting diseases.
Experiment With The Three Color Harmo
One of the best things about gardening is the lack of rules. That’s especially true when it comes to color – anything goes! In the garden, there are as many …
They are easy to grow indoors and outdoors
Winter is not the season most often associated with growing flamboyant flowers – unless the subject happens to be amaryllis. With large tropical flowers that rival anything the …
Timing is everything when it comes to planting bulbs
Good things still come to those who wait. This is especially true of those who love tulips, daffodils and other spring-flowering bulbs. To bloom in spring, bulbs …
CREATING YOUR GARDEN’S “LINE”
The dog days of late summer are here: time to order bulbs! That’s right: for gardeners “spring forward” happens in fall, and has nothing to do with daylight savings.
Hans Langeveld, third generation …
By Jennifer Miko
With fall weather approaching, cooler conditions welcome new opportunities to brighten up your landscaping. There are many wonderful plants to consider that thrive after the summer months. Annuals are versatile and can be …
A CERISE PINK TRULY FIT FOR A PRINCESS
David Austin Roses has selected Rosa “Princess Anne” as its newest “featured English Rose” for North America. Austin’s featured rose category is an online showcase for select, top-performing …
How to Stay Six Steps Ahead of Weeds
Every garden is filled with millions of weeds, even if they can’t be seen. You can pull, chop, spray and dig weeds out, but they remain. That’s because …
For broad-shouldered, showy blooms that can take the summer heat, you can’t beat dahlias. Despite a pop culture reputation for being associated with mystery, there’s no secret to growing these hardy plants. Dahlias perform beautifully …
Photography courtesy of Longfield Gardens
With the advent of spring comes opportunities to plant the cheery caladium, a favorite of local landscapers. These hardy plants may appear fragile, but are closely related to the hardy philodendron …
Photography by Zac Stayton, Cockrell Butterfly Center
Interested in butterfly gardening? Butterflies can dance around yards almost year round in the Houston area. Nearly a hundred species inhabit southeast Texas, from large and showy monarchs, gulf …
They may become the true “Stars” of your garden
Sunshine Daydream, the 2012 All-America Rose Selections winner, leads the way among four new offerings from The Conard-Pyle Company/Star® Roses this spring.
Yellow roses take center stage this …
