by Greg Grant | Dec 25, 2022 | Garden, Uncategorized
Mistletoe and Ivy, Pine boughs and holly, A Christmas without evergreens, Wouldn’t be so jolly. It’s hard to imagine a holiday season without evergreens. It’s even harder to imagine a landscape without evergreens. After all, as the English say, they give bones to the...
by Greg Grant | Dec 18, 2022 | Garden
Everybody in Texas loves pecans. It’s a law, I think. After all, it is our state tree. Don’t ask me what nut gave it a botanical name honoring Illinois, because I don’t know. It should have been named for Texas, Louisiana, or Mississippi, where they are most common in...
by Greg Grant | Dec 4, 2022 | Garden
Cooler temperatures and moisture are finally here. If you have a sprinkler system, fertilize more than once, and have a St. Augustinegrass lawn, you are almost guaranteed to have experienced brown patch disease (Rhizoctonia), a common fungus associated with cool...
by Greg Grant | Nov 27, 2022 | Garden, Uncategorized
Many amateur birdwatchers think that birds only eat seed. They don’t. Birds can be divided up into two groups; those that eat seeds and those that eat insects. Most are familiar with seed eaters like blue jays, cardinals, doves, and goldfinches. But many others like...
by Greg Grant | Nov 20, 2022 | Garden, Uncategorized
I’ll be honest. Growing something to eat in Texas isn’t easy. It’s often too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry. We alternate from arctic blasts to Mexican heat waves. In addition to regular severe droughts like this past summer, Texas holds the record for the wettest...
by Greg Grant | Nov 13, 2022 | Garden
Our hot dry summer was known for the color brown. But as the days get cooler and shorter, deciduous trees like baldcypress, blackgum, Chinese pistache, crapemyrtle, dogwood, ginkgo, hickories, maples, oaks, pears, sassafras, sumacs, and sweetgum put on an autumn show...
