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05/14/2008

Colorful caladiums add flair to summer garden
Caladiums are as much a fixture in the summer landscape as bedding begonias and impatiens. Landscapers and gardeners plant them en masse in shady borders and fill big containers with their bright colors and bold markings.

05/12/2008

Heirloom rose garden sprouting on historic Collin farm

NATALIE CAUDILL/Staff

The garden, north of McKinney, is displaying heirloom roses, which get special gardening care from North Texas rose societies.

Chambersville Heritage Rose Garden provides a spot for visitors to see collections of heritage roses in a pastoral setting. The garden, on a historic Collin County Farm, is open on spring and fall weekends to the public.

04/25/2008

If the bulbs won't grow here, there's always mail order
I've been leafing through a certain Virginia bulb catalog for years, window shopping for an extravagant show of tulips and daffodils (just looking, because so many tulips and Narcissus species do not prosper here). I don't know how I overlooked it all these years, but Brent and Becky's Bulbs also ships bouquets made from its bulb crop.

04/18/2008

Trying to keep both chickens and earthworms happy
I have practiced composting in my back yard for several years. With my neighbor's grass clippings (he refused to leave them on his lawn), lots of tree leaves, vegetable and fruit scraps from the kitchen and many, many dead plants to contribute to the heap, I have no shortage of material.

04/10/2008

Hurry, enjoy Texas' spring before it's gone
Ah, spring. That's when Dallas is at its prettiest. Unfortunately, spring lasts about two weeks here.

04/04/2008

Want to try to curb webworms with wasps? The time is now.
The budding tree limbs high above my neighborhood are still disfigured by the untidy brown remains of webworm nests. The pests had a great year in 2007, producing three generations of the hairy, inch-long worms that spun their webs bigger and bigger to encompass the leaves that are their dietary requirement.

04/03/2008

Want to try to curb webworms with wasps? The time is now.

FILE 2007/Staff photo

There's not much you can do to counter webworms and their nests, but trichogramma wasps seem to work for many people. Check out Home Editor Mariana Greene's Gardening Fool column for more about pitting wasps against worms.

03/27/2008

Scoop up hard-to-find varieties at April plant sale
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – We could be plant hunters. We could renew our passports, apply for federal papers to bring foreign plants into the United States, ascend Tibetan mountains and slog through South American rain forests to find rare and uncommon plants for our gardens. But why, when there are intrepid plant geeks here in Texas willing to do the work for us?

03/21/2008

All the pretty flowers ... that will grow here
Plant lust. It's a terrible thing. I stay up late studying the new crop of garden catalogs, pretending I have the money, garden space and time enough to grow everything I see on their impossibly perfect pages.