Relocating Your Fall Vegetable Garden

Do not locate your vegetable garden within six feet of hedges, shrubs or trees. Not only do these larger, more permanent plants compete for light, but they also gobble up […]

Cutback Now to Ensure Fall Blooms Later

Once plants have flowered and produced seed the plants puts all of its energy into maturing the seed and does not bloom again. Blooms may last longer in cooler climates […]

Alternatives to Lawn Grass

It is hard to believe that after having 10 inches more rain than the average in the first half of 2016, we are already irrigating lawns.  The same thing happened […]

Small Trees to Balance the Landscape

Too often when we think about landscaping we only consider lawns and shade trees.  It is important   to balance the landscape between shade trees and lawn with perennials, shrubs and […]

Birds of Prey at the Nursery

woman with a bird talking at a kids event

A large audience of children and adults flocked to Milberger’s to participate in our annual Birds of Prey Kids Last Chance Forever program. One of Milberger’s Kids Gardening Class the […]

Gardening Tasks for June

  Consider daylilies for your landscape. Look for the large bloomed selections that are blooming right now in yellow, gold, orange and rust. They are showy, drought tolerant, and not […]

Texas Superstars for Full Sun

petunia bush

  Here are some traditional Texas Superstars that are worthy of consideration for the sunny part of your summer landscape. Laura Bush petunia (pictured above) was selected as a Superstar because […]