May is my favorite gardening month. It's a transition from spring into the rest of the entire growing season, and we're including a lot of exciting tips and tidbits for your reading enjoyment. If you like what you see, please do share it with friends.

I've shown you a couple of places where we removed overgrown undergrowth. That's a "Neil term" that I created for removing lower branches and even entire lowest shrubs that have become gnarled and misshapen due to years (decades) of competing for sunlight. Click for details.

Lots and lots of questions this month. Remember that Neil requires a photo with each question. Click here to see this month's answers. Click here to send Neil your photo and question.

You could write a book on great things to do in the landscape and garden in May. However, we've compiled those that are the most critical, and you'll find them hiding right behind here.

A road trip finds our native son thrilling to blue yucca blossoms, an out-of-the-way nursery, and a grist mill. Click here to read Steven Chamblee's article about a recent trip to Waco.

Jimmy Turner has asked a little help with this month's featured plant. Neil turns back most of the pages in his horticultural diary to find a plant that's taken 50 years to "hit the big time." Cutting-grown coleus and Neil go back to when horned frogs roamed the earth. Click for details.

Yep! You'll pay $23.95 for one year, but for a very few more days, you can get three years, new or renewal, for only $44.95. If you like e-gardens, you'll LOVE our magazine. Every word written just for Texas, and recognized as the best regional gardening magazine in America. Click for details.

To celebrate the grand opening of Statewide Remodeling's new DFW showroom, Neil will present a free seminar on "Garden Facts and Fantasies" on Saturday, May 5. On Tuesday, May 15 he will appear in Alpine at Morrison's True Value. Click here for details.

The May/June issue of Neil Sperry's GARDENS Magazine features articles on everything from backyard pools to beekeeping. It also includes Neil's article about one of his favorite Texas nurseries. Click here to read his column.

Which rose is the perfect one? Mike Shoup of the Antique Rose Emporium answers the question this month with a review of the rose traits that inspire and frustrate breeders. Click here to read his article.

In the midst of this spring's thriving gardens, many homeowners are finding their treasured flowering pears in trouble. Click here to read Steve Houser's article about fire blight and how to combat it.

It may not be the most probable place you'd expect to find Neil, but there he is, surrounded by 12,000 friends, and they're all talking gardening. No useless drivel. Just fun things about horticulture. Click for a peek.

Join Neil on WBAP 820AM and 96.7FM Sunday mornings 8-11. The program also streams at www.wbap.com. Click here for podcasts of past programs. He's on radio statewide weekdays and Saturdays. Click for details. And, join him on TV for Dig In DFW, Saturday mornings at 6 on Fox4 KDFW in the Metroplex. Click for video clips.

May is prime-time for feeding and planting, and we have the very best products available anywhere -- Neil Sperry's Texas Best Fertilizers and Potting Soil. Click for details.

Gardens and gardening organizations all across Texas continue to celebrate spring with festivals, classes, and other special events. Click here to view the calendar for the coming month.

If you enjoy e-gardens, the favor I ask of you is that you refer us to your friends. We won't let you down! We won't try to sell them anything, and we'll never spam them. Click forward at the bottom of this e-mail to send us along. (Thanks in advance.)

We strive here at e-gardens to match people and pets from the two Metroplex SPCA shelters. Click here to see this month's pet pals. Click here to see one of Neil's all-time favorite e-mails, sent by an e-gardens subscriber just a couple of weeks ago.

That's it for e-gardens for May. Next edition, we'll be looking toward summer. I hope you've enjoyed what you've found here today, and if so, I simply ask that you share us with a friend or two -- help us spread the word.

Until next time, happy gardening!

Neil