Roasted, baked, mashed, or fried. The day I don’t love ‘em, is the day I died. As you know, I was born in love with gardening. Heck, flowers, fruit, bulbs, trees, shrubs, natives, and vegetables were all fair game for me. I spent my early childhood in Longview...
Tyler, Texas — The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will be hosting The East Texas Turfgrass Conference Tuesday, February 4, 2020 from 8:00- 3:20 PM at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Overton, Texas. The address is 1710 FM...
The Arbor Gate Nursery in Tomball introduces the third in its line of complete soil management products. “Arbor Gate Compost Complete is a one-of-a-kind locally and naturally made product that will improve any and all soils, leading to optimal plant performance,” says...
This Friday, January 17, 2020, Greg Grant, Smith County Horticulturist for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will be at the Tyler Public Library (201 South College Avenue, Tyler, TX 75702) from 11:30-1:30 yapping “Pines, Pawpaws, and Pocket Prairies”...
SAVE THE DATE!!! The dedication of the Tyler Botanic Garden Saturday June 6 at the Tyler Rose Garden will feature garden tours, demonstrations, activities, vendors and a conference with Dave Creech, Steven Chamblee, and Greg Grant expounding on Japanese maples, the...
…if you don’t know where you are, you probably don’t know who you are. -Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 1952 For an old man, Father Time, never slows down. He’s the original Energizer Bunny…a true perpetual motion machine. So here we are in a new decade. Some of us are...
I took the week of Thanksgiving off and spent a portion of it adding more maples to my “maple walk” around my 8-acre Rebel Eloy Emanis Pine Savanna and Bird Sanctuary. My 10-acre Trillium Woods are full of butter-hued native southern sugar maples (Acer barbatum/Acer...
In today’s episode, Beverly Welch is joined by Angela Chandler of The Garden Academy, our Partner in Education! Angela and Beverly show different ways to train pear trees over your brand new arbor! – [Beverly] Welcome back to The Arbor Gate. I am Beverly...
The topic for the Thursday, January 9, 2020, meeting of the Houston Rose Society will be “Extreme Bed Building.” Mary Fulgham and Randy Keen will present the program. Mary is a Master Rosarian, past president of the HRS, editor of The Rosette and an avid rose...
The monthly meeting of the Houston Rose Society this month is on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at the St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 1819 Heights Blvd., Houston, TX 77008. Admission is free. The public is welcome. Do you have a space that would be perfect for a beautiful...
