Take care how you listen!
I love spring in Texas. Everything is blooming all at once, and the lure of seed packets practically calls to me from the shelves of the garden center. “Pick me! I’m beautiful! What you see on the packet is exactly what I’ll look like in your garden!” So I buy a seed packet of Molten Lava amaranthus with the hopes that what is pictured on the seed packet will grow into a gorgeous plant in my garden. Like many who arrive in Texas from other locales, like yankee-land or California, I needed help to succeed in gardening in Texas. I had several friends who helped me get started. In addition to their help, I decided to follow Neil Sperry. I listened to him on the radio, bought his “boot book”, which I read it from cover to cover, and recently I purchased his new book with the adirondack chair on the front. One Saturday while listening to him, I decided to give call him on his live radio show on KLIF. This was a big step for me as I’ve never called a talk show. I asked him ...