Garden blogging

November 01, 2007It’s like a landslide of garden bloggers around here these days. I was happy to discover another Austin garden blogger today, although I noticed that Annie and MSS have been commenting on her site and didn’t let me know about her. Hey, I like to keep Austin’s braggin’ ...

November 01, 2007It’s like a landslide of garden bloggers around here these days. I was happy to discover another Austin garden blogger today, although I noticed that Annie and MSS have been commenting on her site and didn’t let me know about her. Hey, I like to keep Austin’s braggin’ ...

October 03, 2007 Unfolding like stiff petals the parts add up to something spiky yet beautiful. ‘Whale’s Tongue’, one of my favorite agaves. Queen Victoria agave (Agave victoriae-reginae ), daintier and more refined. Gopher plant (Euphorbia rigida or E. biglandulosa ) offers softer spikes. Even the spiders are getting spiky ...

September 28, 2007 I can’t resist a little Texas-style bragging. When Carol commented on my post about our meeting with Kathy Purdy, “That’s quite a concentration of garden bloggers. Perhaps a new record of six together at one time? Can anyone beat that?”—well, I just had to remind her (and ...

September 27, 2007 Annie, MSS, Kathy Purdy, and me during a morning tour of my garden. Many thanks to Kathy’s friend Cynthia for taking our group photos. Blowing in from the northeast, Cold Climate came to Austin today. So how come the weather was so danged hot?! Despite the heat ...

September 05, 2007 Photo by Mary R. Vogt, courtesy of MorgueFile If you’re a regular reader, you might have noticed that I often post photos of people on my blog. People exploring a garden. People enjoying a festival. People just doing what people do when they’re out in public. I ...

September 05, 2007 Photo by Mary R. Vogt, courtesy of MorgueFile If you’re a regular reader, you might have noticed that I often post photos of people on my blog. People exploring a garden. People enjoying a festival. People just doing what people do when they’re out in public. I ...

July 31, 2007 Photo by Phillip Oliver. Reposted with permission. A recent comment by a new blogger led me to visit his site, Dirt Therapy. Wow, the doctor is in! Phillip Oliver, a gardener in Florence, Alabama, and his partner, Michael, have transformed a typical suburban lawn into a riot ...

July 29, 2007Everyone say hello to Diana, another Austinite who has added her voice to the garden-blogging scene. That makes 12 of us, by my count. You can check out Diana’s garden at Sharing Nature’s Garden. Welcome, Diana. I look forward to reading more about your garden ...

July 12, 2007Boy, I’ve missed you all! Last Friday I returned from my two-week vacation in Tanzania and Amsterdam (and my even longer absence to get some work done before I left). After recovering from jet lag and spending some much-needed time with my family, I spent several days catching ...

May 09, 2007 I just received a pleasant surprise at Gardening Tips ‘n’ Ideas. Australia’s best-known blogger, Stuart, has added a new feature to his world-map blog directory: a top-ten most-visited list. And guess what? As of this writing*, Digging was the most-visited blog for the past 24 hours, the ...

May 09, 2007 I just received a pleasant surprise at Gardening Tips ‘n’ Ideas. Australia’s best-known blogger, Stuart, has added a new feature to his world-map blog directory: a top-ten most-visited list. And guess what? As of this writing*, Digging was the most-visited blog for the past 24 hours, the ...

May 05, 2007 As in Detroit, garden blogs got a little press in Austin today with my article in the Austin American-Statesman. A photo of eight of the Austin garden bloggers—taken on the day of our “Ground Robin” garden tour—accompanied the article. I hope it creates new readers among people ...

April 24, 2007 Scutellaria ovata. Heartleaf skullcap’s fuzzy, oily foliage. The lavender spires are forming but not open yet. Around here, robins appear in the winter, scratching for berries and bugs in the cedar brakes. In the spring they fly north to cooler climates. So the first Robin in my ...

April 23, 2007In the sidebar to the right, under “Gardens in Austin,” you’ll find links to eight other garden bloggers who call Austin home. Some, like Annie in Austin, many of you already know thanks to thoughtful, poetic posts and prolific comments. Others, like Vive at Something About Blooming and ...

April 09, 2007 Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea ) adds its starry shape to the mix of pinks and yellows in the front garden. Now that we’ve gotten that last gasp of winter out of the way, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. Today the purple coneflower was noticeably in ...