Children’s Garden & Edible Garden at Wildflower Center
November 28, 2011 The Little House Garden—the children’s garden—beckoned on our way out of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center last Friday afternoon. The child-sized door leads to the Little House, a craft and educational room for kids; the open wooden door leads to a small courtyard with a vine ...
Children's Garden & Edible Garden at Wildflower Center
November 28, 2011 The Little House Garden—the children’s garden—beckoned on our way out of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center last Friday afternoon. The child-sized door leads to the Little House, a craft and educational room for kids; the open wooden door leads to a small courtyard with a vine ...
Garden with a view: Epping garden at Seattle Garden Bloggers Fling
August 11, 2011 If you’re lucky enough to live on a hilltop in Seattle, odds are you have a nice view of something, seeing as the city is surrounded by mountains and the sea. In the Epping Garden, which we visited on Day Two of the Seattle Garden Bloggers Fling, ...
Nursery tour: Ravenna Gardens in Seattle, a color explosion
August 10, 2011 What could top off a day of garden touring at the Seattle Garden Bloggers Fling? A happy hour, complete with swag bags, at stylish urban nursery/garden shop Ravenna Gardens. Located in an upscale outdoor mall just a couple of blocks from our hotel in the University District, ...
Visit to Biltmore House: Walled Garden & Conservatory
June 29, 2011 As always when visiting a beautiful garden, time was short, so the Walled Garden and conservatory were our final stop at Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina, earlier this month. The grounds slope steeply down from the grand house, through the Italian Garden and Shrub Garden, leading ...
Dallas Open Days Tour 2011: Munsterman garden
May 25, 2011 I think the Munsterman garden, soon to be sold to some lucky buyer, along with the house, was my favorite on the May 21 Dallas Open Days tour. What can I say? I’m a sucker for garden rooms and colorful, inviting seating areas surrounded by striking foliage ...
Gardens on Tour 2011: Eanes Circle garden
May 10, 2011 Steelwork appealed to me in the final garden on the Wildflower Center-sponsored Gardens on Tour last Saturday. Take this planter box, for instance. The plants will look better when they fill in, but for now the box is fabulous. I also liked these bent-stake plant labels—clever. And ...
Garden Designers Roundtable: Bridging Earth and Sky with Vertical Gardening
March 22, 2011 I’m joining my colleagues at Garden Designers Roundtable today on the topic “Vertical.” Introducing vertical elements into the garden is a time-honored technique for bridging the gap between earth and sky. You can do so much more than just plant a tree! Here are my favorite techniques ...
Garden Up! Vertical gardening cyber book party & giveaway
March 14, 2011 Today is the official launch of Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces, a new book by Susan Morrison and Rebecca Sweet, my friends and colleagues at Garden Designers Roundtable. To celebrate, Rebecca and Susan are hosting a cyber book party with 7 great ...
Making a wood screen to hide the garden work zone
March 08, 2011 After planting my succulent wall last week, I built a contemporary-style cedar screen to hide the A/C unit, trash bins, and gardening miscellany from view of the upper-patio garden. I’m happy to borrow good design solutions from others, and I modeled my screen on one constructed by ...
Austin Open Days Tour 2010: David-Peese garden
October 22, 2010 Like a contemporary fairy-tale cottage, the home of James David and Gary Peese is glimpsed through the embrace of the surrounding garden: a fascinating, wow-inducing, richly planted—and richly hardscaped—yet intimate and surprisingly unpretentious garden. This was my final stop on last Saturday’s Open Days garden tour. James ...
People from Garden Bloggers Buffa10
July 15, 2010 I never cease to marvel at how a love of gardening (and blogging about it) brings together people of all ages, from disparate growing regions, backgrounds, and politics, and forges instant friendships between them. To go for the obvious metaphor, we’re like a home-grown bouquet picked from ...
Buffalo’s charming Cottage Garden District: Buffalo Garden Bloggers Fling
July 14, 2010 Exuberantly planted front-yard gardens, colorful window boxes, lush container plantings, shady nooks, garden art, and Crayola-hued houses make the Cottage District in Buffalo, New York, a delight to explore. It’s one of the most popular neighborhoods to tour during Garden Walk, which begins in two weeks. Lucky ...
Garden Designers Roundtable: Designing for small spaces
June 22, 2010 Narrow side yard AFTER: A garden that connects front and back and provides views for dining room windows. A pretty good place for an Easter egg hunt too. Today my fellow knights and ladies of the Garden Designers Roundtable are exploring the topic of designing for small ...
Art display in the garden
May 13, 2010 I saved these images from a recent visit to the Wildflower Center because they are inspiring me to think about placing art in my garden in new ways. These flying birds are part of a sculpture display, and I was really taken by the lighthearted design and ...
Gardens on Tour 2010: Forest Trail garden
May 11, 2010 The next garden I visited on Saturday’s Gardens on Tour 2010 was the Forest Trail garden, located in Tarrytown, the same west Austin neighborhood as the Bridle Path garden. The most eye-catching—and nose-catching—scene in this garden was a stunning star jasmine vine, in full bloom, arching across ...
