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New Hawaiian Ti Varieties Create a Dazzling Taste of the Tropics

New Hawaiian Ti Varieties Create a Dazzling Taste of the Tropics

Our Taste for the Tropics just got a lot larger this year as Proven Winners has added five new Hawaiian Ti varieties under their Proven Selections label. This brings the Cordyline group to a total of eight selections. Most of us have never seen a named variety of Hawaiian Ti known botanically as Cordyline fruticosa or Cordyline australis. 05/26/2022 12:00 AM

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Some say life in the good ole days was a lot easier. Maybe so. At least folks had a well-worn life script to follow. 05/26/2022 12:00 AM

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It took me years to believe that some people are just plain mean. I’m sure I had passed my 50th birthday before this realization occurred, and it didn’t happen overnight. In fact, it took some time, going over family history and life experiences before I realized: some people are just mean. They go out of their way to hurt others… to put down a co-worker…nit-pick someone’s performance, their appearance, financial status, house, car, children, educational level, etc. 05/19/2022 12:00 AM

We’re living in a death-denying society — and why that’s a problem

We’re living in a death-denying society — and why that’s a problem

Caution: If you are not comfortable reading about death and dying, you may want to skip this column. 05/12/2022 12:00 AM

National Nurses Week is May 6 -12

National Nurses Week is May 6 -12

My first remembered encounter with a nurse was in the office of our family’s pediatrician. It was time for some type of inoculation and I didn’t want to play. Dashing out of the examination room, I eventually reached the waiting room, where I sought refuge under an unoccupied chair. Not a good decision! 05/05/2022 12:00 AM

Lemon Coral Sedum: Celebrate the flowers

Lemon Coral Sedum: Celebrate the flowers

A funny thing happened on the way to May... I have what looks to be a million tiny yellow flowers. It happens every year for about 4 to 6 weeks but no one talks about it some even look away. In fact, Lemon Coral sedum was the 2019 Proven Winners Annual of the Year, yet I don’t remember flowers being mentioned. While I am at it, I will add, I have never had one die either. The truth, or caveat to that is that I have lived my whole horticultural life in zones 7b-10. In other words, fairly mild to warm climates. 05/05/2022 12:00 AM

Fortis Therapy opens new clinic

Fortis Therapy opens new clinic

After three months in its new brick-and-mortar location, Fortis Therapy Center celebrated its opening with a ribbon cutting, sponsored by the Dripping Springs Chamber of Commerce. 04/28/2022 12:00 AM

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I’ll admit, I had to look up Ukraine to find it on the map when this needless war began. I knew little about the customs, the religion, the ethnicities of Ukraine — and really, in the final analysis, none of that really mattered. 04/28/2022 12:00 AM

Aqua Blue Pots on a Hill: The ‘Peace de Resistance’

Aqua Blue Pots on a Hill: The ‘Peace de Resistance’

Aqua Blue Pots in the landscape and staggered on the side of a hill, was not my idea, but my bride, the person who pops up on my phone as Jan My Love Winter. This is the color I have avoided like the plague for most of my life. To modify the French phrase this project was going to be my ‘Peace’ de Resistance. You see Jan is a gifted and natural plant groomer when it comes to our mixed containers, so making ‘Peace’ is the goal. 04/28/2022 12:00 AM

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Texas was hardest hit by the polio outbreaks of the 1940s and early ’50s. As scientists raced to find a vaccine, local officials, celebrities and ordinary people came together to raise funding for the desperately-needed research. 04/21/2022 12:00 AM

The early butterfly gets the verbena

The early butterfly gets the verbena

Swallowtails were early at The Garden Guy’s house this year. Thank goodness I had Superbena verbenas in full bloom. It is as if they had been given the task of announcing the arrival of spring and the butterfly season. March 22, I photographed an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Superbana Royale Chambray verbena. 04/21/2022 12:00 AM

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Small children fear darkness, crying at the possibility of bad guys hiding under the bed or monsters in the closet. These imaginings are usually erased by hugs, reassurances and under-thebed inspections. When my boys were small, I used room spray to banish bad guys and monsters. In some cases, an invitation to spend the night in mom’s and dad’s room calms the frightened child…or perhaps a warm place in the parents’ bed was the goal all along. 04/14/2022 12:00 AM

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