Neil Sperry
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Host at WBAP-AM (Dallas, TX)
Neil Sperry - helping Texas gardeners since 1970. Sunday mornings 8-10 on WBAP 820AM. See his new book on his website. Follow him in 16 Texas newspapers.
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3 days ago |
theeagle.com | Neil Sperry
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5 days ago |
news-journal.com | Neil Sperry
Dear Neil: Any idea why my purple wisteria has never bloomed and what, if anything, I can do to get it to produce blooms? This is absolutely my most-asked question relative to vines. Unfortunately, no one has ever given a simple, definitive answer that covered all the possibilities. Let me plunge forward. Most obvious is pruning. Wisterias set their flower buds in the fall and early winter.
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1 week ago |
dailysentinel.com | Neil Sperry
Dear Neil: Any idea(s) why my purple wisteria has never bloomed and what, if anything, I can do to get it to produce blooms? A: This is absolutely my most-asked question relative to vines. Unfortunately, no one has ever given a simple, definitive answer that covered all the possibilities. Let me plunge forward. Most obvious is pruning. Wisterias set their flower buds in the fall and early winter.
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1 week ago |
neilsperry.com | Neil Sperry
The time was back in the ‘60s. A&M had only 3 students left in Floriculture (horticulture applied to greenhouse production). Ohio State, by comparison, had more than 240. I immediately knew that was where I needed to be, and I loved it. Kip (Dr. D.C. Kiplinger) and Ken (Dr. Ken Reisch) were my major professors for my B.S. and M.S. degrees, and I’m going to tell you three quick little things that they shared with us in class. Things I’ve never forgotten.
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1 week ago |
neilsperry.com | Neil Sperry
You’ll see this plant’s mother growing natively in the Big Bend Country of Brewster County, Southwest Texas. That’s arid terrain, but somehow it has found ponds at the bases of small waterfalls where it could carve out a living. It’s from those settings Dr. Greg Grant found the plant and subsequently he and Drs. Jerry Parsons and Steve George worked with the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association to produce, market, and distribute the plant.
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