Gardening 101: Annual and perennial combinations for your spring and summer garden
Try to dominate your flowerbed with perennial flowering plants, native or adapted to North Texas.
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Try to dominate your flowerbed with perennial flowering plants, native or adapted to North Texas.
Most herbs grow very well in this region. They are low risk, high reward plants, and an herb box is an easy way to get started.
To grow native is to greatly increase your odds of a having a successful plant. But fruit is rare in the wild, especially in a climate like ours.
If you have a spot in your yard for an ornamental tree, then you have room for a tree from the Prunus genus.
With proper care, these plants can easily live 10-15 years in a pot.
There are many advantages to conifer trees.
Drip irrigation is when you drip water slowly into the root zone from ground level.
Oak wilt is a devastating, incurable fungus that is slowly spreading over a large part of the United States.
Veterans Produce is an idea seeded from one man trying to toil in the dirt to feed who he can. It is an idea that can take root and help solve hunger and homeless problems just about anywhere.
Christmas is the time of joy, celebration and gift-giving. This week's story is about gifting a friend or family member a tree for their yard.
It is better to plant a tree around here in the Fall instead of Spring. This gives the tree time to grow out its root structure.
The hackberry leafroller is a small green worm that looks like a tiny inchworm. It nests in the tree's branches and eats the leaves.
For those who would like to exercise their green thumb but don't have a backyard, container gardening is a space- and cost-friendly option.
This week's Gardening 101 is about changing out your summer annuals with cool-season annuals.
The program transforms school grounds into more comfortable playgrounds, teaching spaces, and a community greenspace.
Most basic herbs are easy to grow and great to use in cooking, providing a quick and steady reward for work and investment.
Here in the heat of the North Texas summer it's time to find some shade, so let's talk about what can grow there.
Many landscapes still bear the scars of the Great Freeze. Some landscapers and homeowners either haven't gotten around to removing and replacing the damaged or dead shrubs.
The Tarrant County Master Gardener Association is a gold mine of garden knowledge at the ready.
