Fall Creek is an exception neighborhood with all of the eminities a family could ask. Neighborhood is build around the Redstone golf club, home of the Shell Houston Open

Get kids hooked on gardening Several varieties of leaf lettuce are attractive; all are easy from seed. Sow tomatoes in December or early January. Many succulents with unusual leaf shapes are suitable for life on a porch or windowsill. Warm-season flowers grown easily from seed include cleome, yellow/orange cosmos, sunflowers, torenias and zinnias. Good air circulation helps discourage pests. Vines in a well-mulched garden area can return from the roots in a mild winter.

For a touch of evergreen in all seasons, pot up a favorite and enjoy it year-round with minimal maintenance. Most evergreens can be grown in containers, so it's your choice whether you go large or small, traditional or edgy, purely ornamental or attractive and edible. Keep the conical shape when you snip the fragrant foliage to use in cooking and potpourri. Use the leaves in sauces, soups, stews, wreaths and potpourri. Lori Handley of Cornelius Nurseries in Houston suggested a skirt of bright-red peppers and oregano around a sweet bay planted in a 30-gallon olive-green container she says is large enough to house the evergreen for years.

Designing Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat. Open Garden Day. 9-11 a.m. Harris County Master Gardeners at Precinct 2 event, 1202 Genoa Red Bluff Road; free. Children's Story Time in the Garden. 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri, read by Baldwin Boettcher Branch Library's children's librarian Nancy Rodriguez; craft project.

Tops can freeze back, but new shoots emerge from roots in spring. Datura is poisonous, and handling seed pods causes a reaction in some people. Let a pod remain on the plant until it's about to pop, then pull it, crack the pod and place the seeds in a saucer overnight to dry. Store the seeds in a jar in the refrigerator for at least a week. (They will remain viable, at 40 degrees, for about two years.) Plant the seeds about a half-inch deep in good potting soil. If you keep datura potted, make sure it's in a container that's at least 5 gallons; it has a vigorous root system. Crested or cockscomb has wrinkled, velvety, wide crests that resemble brightly colored brains or narrow crests like a rooster's comb. Last year, agastache did well for months in my garden but faded in late summer humidity and less-than-excellent drainage. Or perhaps your plant has just been settling in, establishing its roots, then vigorously growing at the expense of blooms because of the nitrogen you've added. Are 18-month-old Encore azaleas established enough to withstand freezes without being covered? If they're flowering when a freeze is forecast, you might cover them to try to protect blooms and swelling buds.