Grow More Videos – July 2024 As mentioned in the newsletter in April and May, I will spend some time introducing you to the wide-reaching range of topics that ACES has prepared to help us all become better gardeners. Over the next few months, we will break our topics into three categories: The topics for…
As mentioned in our short article in this month’s newsletter there are some issues with growing tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) in our area. If your main goal is to help the monarch butterfly – then do not grow tropical milkweed! There are some caveats to this statement which I will mention below. The first thing…
The topic this month should be of concern to many of us and our neighbors as a fair number of us have crepe myrtle bushes and trees in our yards. A recently introduced insect pest, the crape myrtle bark scale (CMBS), initially infested crape myrtles in Texas in 2004 and has now spread to several…