It’s been said to not burn bridges, the possibility of you needing that person again always being possible.

New Nocona Softball Coach Riley Dickson can vouch for that.

It was Nocona Athletic Director Jeff Hill that gave Dickson his first job out of college at S&S Consolidated. When Hill moved on to Nocona, he told Dickson that he’d love the opportunity to work with him again.

“He said if he got an AD position at Nocona, he’d love for me to come over there and coach softball,” Dickson said. “He had coached softball last year and wanted to focus more on the AD position, so he asked me to come over and I did.”

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.

As a card-carrying member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the Shadowland Giant Lone Star hosta.
Make no mistake, I don’t believe this hosta was discovered in the shady soil under a Texas Madrone in Guadalupe National Park. It was actually a sport or morphological change in s hosta named Key West. That sounds like a fairy tale story all its own.
But Shadowland Giant Lone Star has winner written all over it. It is large and has thick leaves. When 12 straight days of rain brought out a rainforest of slugs and other forest floor creatures, the bane of hosta growers everywhere, it didn’t load up with holes but simply got more beautiful.

Read the full Garden Guy column in Thursday’s Bowie News.

Supertunia Mini Vista Pink Cloud petunia is having its debut year or thanks to Susan Middleton Turner in south Georgia’s zone 9 Miller County it’s breakout year.
Susan’s house looks quite like a movie set, and you would have to think that Supertunia Mini Vista petunias play a prominent role.
Last year it was the award-winning Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo that dazzled with incredible color. The petunias were planted in banister baskets across the front of the house. I featured her photos in an article I wrote about Mini Vista petunias.

Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.