Put down your pruning shears! Surrender your saw! The trees and shrubs in your yard may look dead in Hurricane Ian’s wake, but many of them are ready to spring […]
Plant Care Tips
Your Water Garden at Home
Dive into this primer with Aquatic Areas Manager Kathy Cahill, and learn how to create your own waterborne utopia. There’s a certain mystique about waterlilies, those stretching, arching dollops of […]
Lethal Bronzing Disease: Protecting our Community’s Palms
Lethal bronzing disease (LBD), formerly known as Texas Phoenix Palm Decline, is a devastating disease of palm trees. As the name suggests, lethal bronzing is fatal to about 19 palm […]
Stop Paying Someone to Kill Your Palms
It’s midsummer, and a tropical storm is brewing in the Gulf. Your landscapers turn up to do emergency hurricane cuts on your palms. Should you let them? Before we answer, […]
Get Growing! A Vegetable You Can Grow This Spring
Hot sauce. Salsa. Paprika. What is the common ingredient? Pepper! No, not the black pepper found on your dining room table. What we’re talking about are the fruits from several plant species found in the genus Capsicum. Like their nightshade family cousins, tomatoes, these fruits are used and colloquially known […]
Talk About a Fall Cleaning
A couple of months ago, gardeners Lauren Hardy and Matt Herrman took stock of the Lea Asian Garden and decided it was time for a purge. Together with their colleagues […]
