Lazy Gardener & Friends
Weekly Newsletter
Welcome to the Lazy Gardener & Friends Weekly Horticultural Newsletter!
2025 Newsletters
Lazy Gardener & Friends 587
HOW CAN OUR GARDENS HELP PREVENT FLOODING?
Tips for Creating a Bayou-Friendly Native Garden
GRASS ISN”T GREENER – The Everyday Conservation’s Guide to Bringing Nature to Your Yard, Danae Wolf, Timber Press, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-64326-329-8
Lazy Gardener & Friends 586
SUMMER AIN’T COMIN’ IT’S ALREADY HERE! Get the umbrellas out!
Plumeria for Gulf Coast: New Varieties & Smart Strategies for Changing Conditions
Myths about mosquito spraying weeds
Lazy Gardener & Friends 585
GET GROWING ADVICE FROM THOSE WHO KNOW YOUR AREA BEST!
Why Go to Master Gardners Open Garden Days?
Fluoride plant and human health biodiversity gluten
Lazy Gardener & Friends 584
WHY ARE OLD GARDEN FAVORITES NOW BEING CALLED INVASIVES?
Common Gardening Mistakes
Lazy Gardener & Friends 583
Just put in NEW PLANTS? GET OUT THE UMBRELLAS!
TREE MULCH
Microbes fungi and leaves microbes and Plant growth artificial fertilizers amphibians
Lazy Gardener & Friends 582
ORCHIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT!
INTIMIDATED BY ORCHIDS? YOU’RE NOT ALONE BUT YOU SHOULDN’T BE!
Native plants dangers of soft drinks dangers of mosquito spraying glyphosate
Lazy Gardener & Friends 581
THINK YOU EASILY RECOGNIZE A DAYLILY? DON’T BET ON IT!
‘What is that?’ ‘It’s a Daylily’ ‘Really? It looks totally different!’
Plant band-aids chickens silicon organic farms gophers nutrition
Lazy Gardener & Friends 580
SPECTACULAR YEAR FOR TEXAS OLIVE TREES!
SQUARE FOOT GARDENING by Terra Burns
How Can I help corn plants and water glyphosate atrazine
Lazy Gardener & Friends 579
WHY ISN’T MY FLOWER BLOOMING?
Processed foods Brix and Plant health The Jungle Documentary
Lazy Gardener & Friends 578
“Gardeners, thou name must be “Patience”!
THE “GROCERY GARDEN”? YOU’RE ALREADY HALF WAY THERE! BY ANGELA CHANDLER
Regenerative agriculture toxic food additives.
2024 Newsletters
Lazy Gardener & Friends 555
“If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener!”
HUGELKULTURE: BUILDING FERTILE SOIL WITH WOOD LOGS
LOOKIN FOR A QUICKGROWING, COOL-SEASON VEGETABLE TO GROW?
Prairies GMO Atrazine Lawns and Climate Fluoride
Lazy Gardener & Friends 554
LET’S LIGHT-UP HOUSTON WITH NATIVE COLOR!!!
Soil Health
Lazy Gardener & Friends 553
‘IS IT FALL YET?’
health and environment
Lazy Gardener & Friends 552
SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER & EVEN NOVEMBER & DECEMBER are great months for us to plant…
Animal manures (part 3 of 3)
Lazy Gardener & Friends 551
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
BLOOMING BROMELIADS MAY SURPRISE YOU WITH CHANGES!
Subject: animal manures (part 2 of 3)
Lazy Gardener & Friends 550
TIMES WILL BE a’CHANGIN’ — ONE OF THESE DAYS!
Healing Gardens
Animal manures (part 1 of 3)
Lazy Gardener & Friends 549
HUMMERS ABOUND & DO & DON’T DO LAZY GARDENER TIPS!
What to do with all the storm cleanup mulch chips
Lazy Gardener & Friends 548
FALL? NOT YET FOR US . . . BUT SEPTEMBER DOES MEAN IT’S ACTUALLY COMING!
Soil microbes and health, cost of toxic ag chemicals, gardening chemicals and health
Lazy Gardener & Friends 547
…cause after the storm’s when the flowers bloom”
Food Quality and Health
Lazy Gardener & Friends 546
DISCOURAGING SQUIRRELS & HELPING POLLINATORS P0ST- BERLE
HOW DID BERYL AFFECT OUR POLLINATORS?
Corrupt Regulators, Pecans, Bagged Soil Products, Fluoride
2023 Newsletters
Lazy Gardener & Friends 507
CELEBRATING & IDENTIFYING ROSES & OTHER SURVIVORS
ROSES MAY BE TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING — LISTEN!
Microbes and minerals rare earth elements scandium V-D yttrium
Lazy Gardener & Friends 506
LEAVES IN BAYOUS, EDIBLES, HUMMER TIPS!
‘PLANT IT FORWARD’ TACKLES WEATHERING’ TRAUMAS!
LOOKING FOR EDIBLE FALL GARDEN WINNERS?
Artificial fertilizers microbes and vitamins soil invertebrates CO2 soil translocation
Lazy Gardener & Friends 505
Highways to home plots — heat, drought putting natives in spotlight
WILDFLOWER HIGHWAY PLANTING — OVERCOMING CHALLENGES!
IF YOU HAVEN’T YET, TRY NATIVE PLANTS IN YOUR GARDEN!
Plant viruses, fire ants & fungi, antioxidants and Alzheimer’s, native mulches and fire ants, tomatoes
Lazy Gardener & Friends 504
XEROPHILES PICKED RIGHT PLANTS THIS SUMMER!
Lazy Gardener & Friends 503
DON’T PLANT CHINESE TALLOWS! MORE BLOOMING SURVIVORS
Wilding or regenerative landscaping
Lazy Gardener & Friends 502
TREE LIMBS DROP? WHO KNOWS WHY?
Trees and rain food safety cryptobiosis
Lazy Gardener & Friends 501
GOOD RAINS PREDICTED NEXT WEEK? ELIEVE WHEN SEE — WILDSCAPES COMETH!
“NO DOUBT SUMMER OF 2023 has been a challenge for even the most experienced
gardeners.”
Lazy Gardener & Friends 500
‘One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you’re in charge.’
‘CONSTANT’ IRRIGATION KEY TO FRUIT TREE SURVIVAL THESE DAYS
Trees (part 2b) – the benefits