Visiting a San Antonio garden with rocks, oaks, and deer

Visiting a San Antonio garden with rocks, oaks, and deer

October 25, 2014 Ahh, I’m back and enjoying our mellow Texas fall after a garden-visiting weekend in New York City, and guess what I’ve been doing since I got back? Yep! Visiting more gardens. Last Friday a few friends and I headed south to San Antonio to visit the gardens ...
kangaroo paws acacia

Rocking a gravel garden in the Kuzma Garden: Portland Garden Bloggers Fling

August 14, 2014 After the barely controlled excess of Floramagoria, the next garden we toured on the Portland Garden Bloggers Fling seemed, at first glance, restrained, even austere. No seating was visible aside from garden walls and steps. With the exception of a few monumental, colorful pots placed as focal ...
Visit to Denver Botanic Gardens: Plains Garden, Rock Alpine Garden & Dryland Mesa

Visit to Denver Botanic Gardens: Plains Garden, Rock Alpine Garden & Dryland Mesa

July 18, 2012 The more naturalistic, dryland gardens were my favorite parts of Denver Botanic Gardens, which I visited earlier this month. By naturalistic I don’t mean, of course, that these gardens are any less designed. They are beautifully designed, and the high-country plants growing in them sparkled in the ...