Basics in Fort Bend
Bees
Beneficial Insects
Chrysanthemum
Common Mistakes
Fall Webworms
Fire Ants
Gingers
Lady Beetles
Landscaping Basics
Monthly Tasks
Pest Elimination
Plant Disease
Propagation
Roses
Trees
Vegetables
Vermicompost
Xeriscape
Zinnias

Some book suggestions

Gardening Information

From Basic Gardening tips for Fort Bend County to Zinnias, with a whole range of topics in-between, our Gardening Pages will help you decide how to enhance your gardens.

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Information You Can Use
by Fort Bend County Master Gardeners

One of the reasons that the Master Gardener program exists is to provide timely, useful, and documented information concerning local area horticulture. Master Gardeners like to share their experiences and research in order to help their fellow gardeners in their community. With this in mind, take a look at our contributions to the Fort Bend County horticultural library. Each one of these articles come from past issues of the Grapevine, the Fort Bend County Master Gardeners newsletter.

Ball Moss
Identifying ball moss.		 Four-leaf Clover - Or Is It Clover Fern
Discussion about the Texas Shamrock.		 Texas Natives: Possumhaw Holly
Identifying a Texas native.
Slugs - Friend or Foe?
Identification and control of common garden slugs.		 Moths in Meadows Place, Texas
Different local moths.		 Seek Beauty in the Garden
The exotic Epiphyllum oxypetalum or Lady of the Night.
I Wonder What That Is?
Identifying insects in our garden.		 Be Careful Out There
Ticks and Lyme Disease		 Texas Salvias
Brief discussion of salias in Texas.
A Beauty and A Beast
Monarch and Mole Cricket.		 More Beauties & Another Beast
Good and bad insect critters.		 A First Time Visitor
A new visitor to our demonstration gardens.
The Post Oak Grasshoppers
Insect identification of Post Oak Grasshoppers		 A 'Weed' To Watch Out For
Creeping Cucumber hard to remove.		 Coastal Prairie Natives
Native species of the Coastal prairie.
Don't Believe Everything You Hear
Some training needs to be verified.		 The Skeeter-Eater
Information about the Crane Fly.		 Organic Gardening - Understanding Labeling
How to read the label.
The "Peggy Martin" Rose
An expert speaks about the Peggy Martin rose.		 Give Your Roses a Treat!
Fertilizer hints for roses.		 Check Your Oak Trees!
Yellow-necked caterpillars can damage oaks.
Why I Fell inLove with Roses
Why roses?		 Nonpoint Source Pollution (NPS)
What is NPS?		 Gardening With Dogs!
Dealing with your pets and garden.
Pink Hibiscus Mealybug
Identification of exotic Mealybug.		 Controlling Pocket Gophers
The good and bad of pocket gophers.