Last week I went to TreeSearch Farms and I saw Heidi Sheesley. It was my lucky day, Heidi had a ripened Dragon Fruit from her Dragon Cactus or Pitaya and offered me a taste. WOW! I have never had anything like it and I couldn’t believe it came from a cactus! The fruit tastes like a grape/kiwi. It [...]
There is an expanding brown patch of grass in the front yard , it started this past week. Could it be due to all the rain? Can grass get over-watered?
J&J Weinberg
Hello J and J,
You have Brown Patch which can be very damaging to St. Augustine in the fall. Brown patch varies in size from 4 inches to 18 inches [...]
What up Jen,
Hope you are doing okay with all this RAIN.
Question, when is the best time for us to put out the winter rye seed and what should the watering schedule be?
Thanks,
Holzshu
Hi Thom,
Now is a fantastic time to put rye seed down since the weather just cooled down a bit. After you put down the [...]
If you enjoy home tours, the AIA fall tour is usually one of the best. For the second year Jenscapes is landscaping a house that is on the tour designed by Architect, James M. Evans, founder and principal architect of Collaborative Designworks in Houston, Texas . The annual program provides design enthusiasts and the general [...]
Heidi Sheesley is the owner of Treesearch Farms . TreeSearch Farms is a wholesale nursery and grower that supplies most of the plants sold at local Master Gardener sales, Houston landscapers, and supplies plants to nurseries such as Buchanans, Arbor Gate , and the Houston Annual Plant and Bulb Mart.
Heidi is well known for educating the [...]
Jen Allgood has earned the designation Texas Certified Nursery Professional, awarded by the Texas Nursery & Landscape Association. This peer reviewed certification verifies that an individual has prepared through independent study and passed a four-hour exam covering the essential components of knowledge of a retail nursery professional.
The exam includes information about botany, plant selection and [...]
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