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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
Annuals
Become A Master Gardener
Bulbs
Children & Gardening
Composting & Mulching
Container Gardening
Cooking & Preserving
Decorating
Flowering Perennials
Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs
Brassica oleracea ‘Romanesco’ (9/2018)
Celebrity Tomato: Latest Texas Superstar (5/2021)
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)
Potato Gardening Starts Now (2/2022)
Ready to Get Pickled? (6/2020)
Spring Vegetable Gardening (3/2020)
Spring Vegetable Gardening (3/2019)
Thornless Blackberry Bushes (11/2019)
Tomato Blossom End Rot (7/2022)
Vegetables for North Texas Gardens (2/2019)
What’s Ready to Harvest in November (11/2022)
Gardening for Wildlife
Houseplants
Insects, Diseases & Pests
Invasives
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)
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)
Lawn and Turf
Natives & Adapted Plants
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)
Lord Baltimore Hibiscus (8/2020)
Makes Your Yard a Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary (4/2022)
Meet the Abelias – Rose Creek and Kaleidoscope (8/2020)
Milkweed: The Good and the Problematic (3/2022)
Nature In Your Landscape (8/2019)
New to Texas Gardening Suggestions and Websites (9/2020)
Propagating Homestead Verbena (5/2020)
Purple Fountain Grass (11/2022)
Salvia ‘Henry Duelberg’ (6/2022)
Seed Bombs/Seed Ball Recipe (11/2019)
Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Daisy (4/2020)
Soft Leaf Yuccas vs. Red Yuccas (1/2021)
Superstars Defy Texas Heat (7/2018)
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)
Parks & Trails
Perennials
Seeds
Toxic Plants
Trees & Shrubs
Afghan or Eldarica Pine Tree (10/2018)
February Rose Care Month (2/2020)
Growing Citrus Trees in North Texas (11/2018)
Hiring a Certified Arborist (8/2022)
Pecan Trees Don’t Produce (12/2018)
Post Oaks Dying/Rapid Decline (9/2019)
Sunscald and Sunburn in Trees (6/2021)
Texas Mountain Laurel (3/2019)