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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 salvias 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.

Gardening Information

Information You Can Useby Fort Bend County Master Gardeners

Information You Can Use
by Fort Bend County Master Gardeners