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Take a stroll down the garden path with a look at eight vintage garden flowers that exude charm and aroma.
Sustainable solution preserves history and enhances The Gardens at Texas A&M University The stately old post oaks at the entrance of the Event Lawn in the Leach Teaching Gardens at Texas A&M University had to go. Damaged by construction and record cold temperatures during Winter Storm Uri in 2021, the dead and dying trees were... Read More →
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If you want to grow your own food or flowers this summer, you need to try this hack from @unlikelycharming. With a 5-gallon bucket, recycled milk jug, and drill you can create a self-watering container garden in minutes.
Interested in growing your own veggies? You’re not alone.
Budget landscaping and yard care don’t mean cutting corners. Follow these six easy-to-implement tips to save money on your great outdoors.
How do you encourage children to become enthusiastic gardeners? Take these steps to get them going down the proverbial garden path.
As lockdowns began in spring 2020, many took up gardening as a way to cope. But will a hobby born out of a crisis recede as life returns to normal?
If you have a green thumb and a pet, you’ll want to make sure that the garden plants and materials you choose are safe. Here's what to know.
The best way to start small is to plant vegetables in containers, and plant breeders have been scaling down the size of many edibles.
Do you find your available gardening space too limiting for all the things you’d like to grow? Most gardeners do. Even if you have space to ex…
TikTok creator @jamesjroy created a labyrinth succulent garden by arranging leaves in a circular pattern and propagating. Key tips: use distilled water instead of tap to avoid harsh minerals and spray them with water rather than pouring. You also might want to invest in a grow light.
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In Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play “Our Town,” heliotrope flowers connect two sets of characters who gather to inhale their intoxicating scent in the moonlight. Heliotropes, then common, are, indeed, wonderfully fragranced. Yet somehow, they’ve fallen out of favor in American gardens. Many onetime garden staples from the Victorian era through the 1950s have been replaced with hybrids and compact bedding plants, many of which lack the charm, aroma and simple nostalgia of their predecessors.
Mature perennials in your garden are a valuable resource. Most perennials can be dug up and divided, yielding two, three or even four splits. And each of these can be replanted elsewhere. Even better, trade with other gardeners, swapping divisions of your perennial for varieties in their gardens that you’d like to try.
Many gardeners don't start all their plants from seed. We buy "starts," or seedlings — nursery-grown plants to transplant into gardens and containers.
This weekend the chilly nights we’ve been experiencing start to warm up a bit. This will speed plant growth and make our warm-season seedlings…
Garden writers often paint quite a positive picture of magnificent gardens. We write about bountiful vegetable patches, abundant flowers, pict…
Branch Elementary School gifted and talented students received help Friday from Mays Business School students as they worked to bring the scho…
Part of the free Master Gardeners Hands On in the Garden program Hands On in the Garden, the free monthly gardening program presented by the Texas Master Gardeners of Williamson County, will be held March 26 in Georgetown. Texas Master Gardeners is a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program. The event will be held from 10-11:30 a.m.... Read More →
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