Front yard design dilemma: Putting ideas to paper
December 13, 2009 Last week I posted about the problems I want to address with a design for my new-old house’s entry. Many of you responded with suggestions, great ideas, your own experience with similar problems, and encouragement. All the ideas got me feeling creative and energized about doing some ...
Whole Foods garden inspires from ground level to rooftop
October 28, 2009 Sunday we went to lunch at Whole Foods’ flagship store at 5th and Lamar. I generally treat this amazing downtown grocery store like a tourist destination and visit about as frequently. So it was a real treat to finally get out of the car instead of driving ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2009: Best of the rest
October 27, 2009 Pull up a chair in Randy Case’s eclectic garden I’ve shown you three of the six wonderful gardens on last Saturday’s Inside Austin Gardens tour. Time constraints and harsh midday sunlight kept me from taking as many pictures in the other three gardens, but they were lovely ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2009: Eleanor Pratt's garden
October 26, 2009 My favorite color echo on Saturday’s Inside Austin Gardens tour appeared in Eleanor Pratt’s garden in the Brentwood neighborhood of north-central Austin. Eleanor repeats the red of a Japanese maple red-leaf hibiscus (Hibiscus acetosella) with a swath of bachelor’s buttons. Vivacious! Eleanor also grows the plant I ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2009: Cheryl Goveia's garden
October 24, 2009 The fall Travis County Master Gardeners tour today featured six gardens that fit the theme of “Sustainable Gardening for Urban Wildlife.” Three of them are the creations of Austin garden bloggers. Each one offered something unique and personal. But by far the most colorful and fun-loving garden ...
Gardens on Tour 2009: Buckeye Trail garden
May 11, 2009 A carpet of silver ponyfoot (Dichondra argentea) sparkles like a stream in the Buckeye Trail garden. My pictures from this garden, our third stop on the Wildflower Center-sponsored Gardens on Tour, don’t do it justice. The Buckeye Trail garden, located in Rollingwood, was my favorite of the ...
Meeting Carol & a tour of Jenny Stocker's garden
April 04, 2008 On her Blotanical “Plot” (site no longer active), in her entry for Garden to See Before I Die, Carol of May Dreams Gardens has written, “All those gardens of the Austin garden bloggers!” As it happens, a number of the Austin garden bloggers have had a burning ...
Meeting Carol & a tour of Jenny Stocker’s garden
April 04, 2008 On her Blotanical “Plot” (site no longer active), in her entry for Garden to See Before I Die, Carol of May Dreams Gardens has written, “All those gardens of the Austin garden bloggers!” As it happens, a number of the Austin garden bloggers have had a burning ...
Early-spring garden views
March 06, 2007 Bottle tree at sunrise Garden bloggers are always looking at their gardens in close-up, filling posts with macro photos of plants and flowers. I tend to do this more than some. So today I thought I’d compensate by including several long-shot photos. It’s easier to see how ...
Screen dreams
February 19, 2007 The Christmas amaryllis is gracing the table with another cluster of flowers. I’m enjoying the orangey red, trumpet-shaped blossoms, which brighten up the dining table. But looking past the amaryllis, through the window overlooking the rear garden, all I’m seeing right now is the kids’ trampoline, its ...
Nursery tour: Natural Gardener
November 05, 2006 In the spirit of my recent Open Days tour, I took my camera along during an afternoon trip to Natural Gardener nursery for a pot of oxalis. It was a simple enough errand, and the cool, gray skies made a tour of the nursery’s gardens very appealing ...
