by Greg Grant | Jan 17, 2022 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings, Uncategorized
Bird watching is one of the most popular hobbies in the country. If you want to see more, just remember that all birds need the same three things…food, water, and shelter. Shelter can be many different things, as different species of birds need different...
by The Arbor Gate | Jan 10, 2022 | Events
Join us this month for our Pruning Party to learn from Consulting Rosarians how to correctly prune bushes that will be given away as door prizes! It is great time to ask questions and leave the meeting with new information along with a new rose bush! As in the past,...
by Greg Grant | Jan 10, 2022 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
Texans love their onions. Of course, we are home to the “Noonday Onion” as well as the famous 1015Y Texas Super Sweet onion. And though a native of Pakistan, onions are our state vegetable. Onions are easy to grow if you remember to grow them when the temperatures...
by Greg Grant | Jan 6, 2022 | Greg's Ramblings
I made two vows to myself as a budding young gardener; to never pull up a bluebonnet and to never chop down a dogwood tree. I dearly love each of them, but both have proven difficult for me to cultivate in my life. That doesn’t keep me from trying, however. The...
by The Arbor Gate | Jan 6, 2022 | How To Videos
Are you struggling to find plants to grow in the winter? Well look no further, As the winter months approach we have a few tricks on how to achieve a beautiful winter cutting garden!
by Greg Grant | Dec 10, 2021 | Greg's Ramblings
One the very same day that Mrs. G asked me why I never brought her an amaryllis bulb at Christmas like my mom used to do for me and I in turn later did for my Granny Ruth in the nursing home, our Ag Agent, Clint Perkins, brought in an appalling lump in his hand and...
by The Arbor Gate | Dec 8, 2021 | How To Videos
Fall is the best season to plant herbs! Herbs LOVE this cooler weather.
by Greg Grant | Nov 30, 2021 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
A common question that the Smith County Master Gardener Help Desk often gets asked is, “Why are the leaves (or trunks) black on my plants?” But this year there were new questions about white, fuzzy little “snowflake” insects blowing in the wind, and particularly on...
by Greg Grant | Nov 9, 2021 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
Fall is my favorite season. It’s the perfect time to work on your landscape. Perhaps you have an area that needs a makeover. Fall is the best season for planting trees, shrubs, and woody vines, followed by winter, and then spring. Summer is the worst. Autumn is...
by Greg Grant | Nov 9, 2021 | Greg's Ramblings
Recently, one of my Smith County Master Gardeners loaned me a copy of the book, Finding the Mother Tree-Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Suzanne Simard, Knopf, 2021). It’s about the relationship between all the plants in a forest and their mycorrhizal fungal...
