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Index to Articles in The Root

Find Articles in All Issues of The Root

Each month The Root, DCMGA’s premier gardening magazine, publishes articles on a variety of topics. To help you find articles in current and past issues of The Root, this page lists categories for articles that have appeared and a link that will take you directly to the starting page of the article. While you are at the article, you may also want to scroll through the other articles and features in a particular issue

Adaptive Gardening

Adaptive Gardening Techniques (9/2020)

Annuals

Blue Daze Named Texas Superstar (6/2020)

Making and Tossing Seed Balls (10/2020)

Moss Rose (8/2022)

Become A Master Gardener

What Do Master Gardeners Really Do?

Bulbs

Amaryllis (1/2019)

Crinum Lily (5/2018)

Divide and Transplant Your Iris In September (9/2022)

Fall Bulb Planting (11/2021)

My Friend Dahlia (2/2022)

Children & Gardening

Celebrate October with Pumpkins (10/2021)

Junior Master Gardener Program (9/2019)

Composting & Mulching

Art of Composting (11/2020)

Compost Your Way To A Successful Garden (5/2019)

Composting (7/2018)

Composting with Worms (8/2021)

Cover Crops (9/2022)

Garden Bed Preparation (4/2022)

Janet’s Corner – Mushrooms (10/2021)

Lasagna Garden (7/2021)

Leaf Mold (12/2020)

Mulch Volcano – What It Is and Why It’s Bad (5/2019)

Preparing Your Plants for Cold Weather (11/2021)

Save Those Leaves! (10/2022)

Using Leaves as Mulch (12/2020)

Weed Control (10/2020)

Container Gardening

Container Garden Basics (5/2021)

Growing Mushrooms in Containers (2/2023)

Cooking & Preserving

Preserving Your Harvest (7/2022)

Decorating

Holiday Decorating with Nature (11/2020)

Flowering Perennials

Autumn Joy Sedum (9/2019)

Sweet Woodruff (11/2018)

Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs

Brassica oleracea ‘Romanesco’ (9/2018)

Cantalope (5/2020)

Celebrity Tomato: Latest Texas Superstar (5/2021)

Celeriac (8/2019)

Chile Pequin (8/2021)

Fall Vegetable Gardening (7/2019)

Give Fall Vegetable Gardening a Chance (9/2020)

Growing & Using Cool-Season Herbs (11/2018)

Growing Blueberries in North Texas (5/2018)

Growing Tomatoes in the Fall (7/2020)

Guide to Fall Planting of Onions and Garlic in North Texas (11/2022)

How to Join or Start a Community Garden (7/2020)

Mexican Mint Marigold (4/2022)

Planning a Fall Vegetable Garden (7/2018)

Pomegranates (2/2021)

Potato Gardening Starts Now (2/2022)

Pumpkins (6/2020)

Ready to Get Pickled? (6/2020)

Rosemary (10/2020)

Seed Saving (11/2020)

Spring Vegetable Gardening (3/2020)

Spring Vegetable Gardening (3/2019)

Thornless Blackberry Bushes (11/2019)

Tomato Blossom End Rot (7/2022)

Tomato Growing (8/2021)

Tomatoes (6/2018)

Vegetables for North Texas Gardens (2/2019)

What’s Ready to Harvest in November (11/2022)

Why You Should Grow Herbs (6/2018)

Zucchini Bread (7/2019)

Gardening for Wildlife

Cultivating a Wildlife Winter Wonderland (1/2019)

iNaturalist: Helping to Steward the Land…One Observation at a Time (4/2023)

Landscape Maintenance is for the Birds (9/2019)

Let’s Talk Birdie (2/2020)

Let’s Talk Birdie (8/2022)

Pollinator-Friendly Gardens (5/2018)

Safe and Sound Seasonal Slumber (1/2021)

Gifts

A Gardener’s Wish List (12/2020)

Houseplants

Christmas Cactus (1/2019)

Forcing Christmas Cactus to Bloom (10/2022)

Houseplants 101 (6/2020)

Insects, Diseases & Pests

Army Worms (10/2018)

Bagworms (8/2019)

Beehive Removal Assistance (8/2018)

Controlling Broadleaf Weeds (6/2022)

Emerald Ash Borer is Knocking on our Door (4/2019)

Fire Ant Control (10/2021)

Got Bugs? (6/2018)

Got Pests? Control Them Safely with IPM (9/2021)

Hammerhead Flatworm (8/2021)

Insects That Attack Trees (3/2021)

Leaf Galls (7/2019)

Love the Fungus Among Us (9/2021)

Plum Curculio (6/2019)

What Native Plants Attract Bees? (9/2021)

What Not to Plant – Redtip Photinia (9/2021)

Invasives

What Not to Plant – Nandina (11/2021)

Landscape Design

Assessing Freeze Damaged Plants (3/2023)

Brighten Your Winter Landscape with Cool Season Color (2/2022)

Creating A Small Space Garden (6/2022)

Embrace Your Inner Artist (1/2020)

Fall Planting and Soil Amendments (11/2022)

Foodscaping: A Different Approach to Gardening (2/2023)

Front Yard Gardening (4/2020)

Preparing Your Landscape For Spring (3/2023)

What to Do in the Yard & Garden After Summer Heat (9/2022)

What To Plant – Can You Help Me? (9/2018)

Why All the Fuss about Landscape Design? (10/2019)

Wildscaping in a Suburban Food Forest (7/2022)

Lawn and Turf

Dandelion/Bees (3/2020)

How to Protect Pets and Wildlife When Treating Your Landscape (3/2019)

Spring Turf Pre-Emergent (3/2022)

Turf Removal: An Alternative to the Lush Green Lawn (3/2023)

Watershed Lawn Care (8/2019)

Natives & Adapted Plants

Coral Bells (9/2022)

Dakota Gold Helenium (7/2021)

Feverfew (6/2021)

Four-Nerve Daisy (5/2021)

Frostweed (11/2020)

Ground Covers for Shade Areas (11/2021)

Growing Wildflowers from Seed (10/2018)

Growing Wildflowers from Seed 8/2022)

Hummingbird Feeder Plants (5/2019)

Including More Native & Adapted Plants (3/2019)

La Nina Survivors (10/2022)

Leatherleaf Mahonia (10/2020)

Lenten Rose (12/2020)

Leopard Plant (4/2022)

Lord Baltimore Hibiscus (8/2020)

Makes Your Yard a Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary (4/2022)

Meet the Abelias – Rose Creek and Kaleidoscope (8/2020)

Mexican Buckeye (3/2020)

Mexican Buckeye (10/2020)

Milkweed: The Good and the Problematic (3/2022)

Muhly Grasses (10/2021)

Native Ground Covers (3/2023)

Nature In Your Landscape (8/2019)

New to Texas Gardening Suggestions and Websites (9/2020)

Pine Muhly Grass (2/2020)

Polar Bear Zinnia (5/2022)

Propagating Homestead Verbena (5/2020)

Pruning Perennials (11/2020)

Pruning Roses (2/2022)

Purple Fountain Grass (11/2022)

Rain Garden Plants (7/2019)

Salvia ‘Henry Duelberg’ (6/2022)

Seed Bombs/Seed Ball Recipe (11/2019)

Shrubs (10/2020)

Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Daisy (4/2020)

Soft Leaf Yuccas vs. Red Yuccas (1/2021)

Sundrops (4/2023)

Superstars Defy Texas Heat (7/2018)

Texas Star Hibiscus (7/2022)

Texas SuperStar Plant Program Overview (2/2023)

Texas Superstar Plants (4/2019)

The Versatile Shade-Loving Japanese Painted Fern (10/2022)

To Cut or Not to Cut: Pruning Perennials (10/2021)

Virginia Creeper / Poison Ivy (4/2020)

Water-Wise Plants (6/2019)

Weeping Redbud and Smoketree (9/2020)

Woolly Stemodia (1/2020)

Parks & Trails

Hidden Treasures (4/2021)

Perennials

When to Prune Perennials (10/2022)

Propagation

Guttation, Fasciation, and Vivipary (11/2021)

Propagation (11/2019)

Seeds

Seed Starting (2/2020)

Soil

Soil Drainage Issues (3/2022)

Succulents

Protecting Succulents from a Freeze (2/2023)

Succulents (11/2019)

Tools

Garden Tool Care (1/2021)

Going Old (Tool) School (1/2021)

Toxic Plants

Poison Hemlock (5/2022)

Know Your White-Flowering Plants: Avoiding Toxic Exposure (5/2022)

Tropical Plants

Bougainvilleas (12/2019)

Viticulture

Viticulture in Your Backyard (9/2019)

Water Conservation

Irrigation (3/2022)

Landscaping for Energy Conservation (7/2021)

Rain Barrel Maintenance (4/2019)

Raingardens for North Texas Landscapes (9/2021)

Saving Water – Educating HOAs (10/2019)

The Water Issue in Texas (3/2022)

Think Like A Raindrop (6/2019)

Water Conservation (8/2020)

Water Conservation (6/2021)

Water Conservation Project (2/2020)

Watering Enough? (8/2018)