November 02, 2018
Lawn-free prairie garden of Native Son’s Danny Bravens
At his home garden, Danny Bravens of Native Son Gardens replaced thirsty turf with low-water, densely planted, native prairie plants …
Come hear Joey Santore of Crime Pays… speak at Garden Spark in Austin
Come hear Joey Santore of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t at his June 19th presentation for Garden Spark in Austin! …
Screech owl in the box and garden anoles
I’ve been keeping an eye on the screech owl box in the front yard. A nesting pair has chosen it, and I believe they’re feeding owlets …
Tank ponds and spring blooms in Lori’s garden
I popped over to my friend Lori Daul’s garden in South Austin, bringing with me a small posse of visiting garden writers and editors …
Athena the great horned owl nesting again at the Wildflower Center
A great horned owl has been nesting at the Wildflower Center for 15 years, laying her eggs each spring in a planter niche high on a wall …
Found-art sculpture, bejeweled gnome village in Tom’s garden, Part 2
In Tom Ellison’s garden, gnomes make jeweled flowers, and Tom’s found-art sculptures shine among plants and pots …
Cottage garden charm in Tom’s Tarrytown garden, Part 1
In the cottage garden of artist Tom Ellison and his wife, Pat, spuria iris, sweet peas, and pickerel weed make a springtime tapestry …
Cactus flowers, lizards, and another owl sighting
What I’ve seen this week: a nesting screech owl, battling skinks, wren, lounging lizard, cactus flowers, and more! …
Wildflowers, donkeys, and old-sign magic at Katie Bird Farm
A tour of Kay Angermann and Julie Nelson’s utterly charming Katie Bird Farm, a hobby farm and garden in southwest Austin …
Edgeland House, where the wild things are
Edgeland House tucks into a bluff above the Colorado River, and a triangular green roof of prairie plants insulates the sunken home …
Screech owl nesting in new owl box
LOOK! An owl! I believe we have a nesting female in our front-yard owl box. There’s another screech owl hanging out in the trees – her mate …
Hopping over to Ruthie’s hilltop garden
Last week, I hopped over to Ruthie Burrus’s garden, where colorful wildflowers bloom around spiky agaves and yuccas–and one big rabbit …
Wildflower safari east to Independence
When Lisa Negri of SummerHome in Denver came to visit and told me she’d never seen bluebonnets, I made it my mission to find us some blue …
Read This: The Texas Native Plant Primer
A new book about Texas native plants is one of the best I’ve read: The Texas Native Plant Primer: 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden …
