Ghostly silvers: garden matchmakers & magic makers
October 29, 2007 Silver ponyfoot (Dichondra argentea ) spills like a waterfall over the edge of a galvanized cattle trough, sharing space with a silver-green Manfreda maculosa and gopher plant (Euphorbia rigida ). The fuzzy leaves and purple spires of Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha ) pair beautifully with silver ...
Ghostly silvers: garden matchmakers & magic makers
October 29, 2007 Silver ponyfoot (Dichondra argentea ) spills like a waterfall over the edge of a galvanized cattle trough, sharing space with a silver-green Manfreda maculosa and gopher plant (Euphorbia rigida ). The fuzzy leaves and purple spires of Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha ) pair beautifully with silver ...
A garden that says "Howdy"
May 10, 2007 Does this look like Texas to you? More specifically, does it look like Austin? I hope so. I posted two days ago about The Landscaping Revolution, which proposes, among other things, that homeowners make their landscaping look less homogenous and more regionally diverse—and therefore more interesting—by using ...
A garden that says “Howdy”
May 10, 2007 Does this look like Texas to you? More specifically, does it look like Austin? I hope so. I posted two days ago about The Landscaping Revolution, which proposes, among other things, that homeowners make their landscaping look less homogenous and more regionally diverse—and therefore more interesting—by using ...
Read This: The Landscaping Revolution
May 08, 2007 Last week a friend pulled this book off her shelf and insisted I read it, enthusing that it caused an awakening for her and changed the way she looks at traditional, lawn-centered landscaping. I’m glad she told me about it. It’s a highly persuasive and entertaining book—although ...
Austin bloggers meet Amy Stewart—and go public
February 24, 2007 Me, M. Sinclair Stevens of Zanthan Gardens, visiting author Amy Stewart, Annie of The Transplantable Rose, and Julie Ardery of Human Flower Project. Annie and I have never posted photos of ourselves before, preferring to let our words and garden photos represent us, but today we decided ...
Amy Stewart's coming to Austin
February 15, 2007 I was planning to do a plug next Monday for fellow garden blogger Amy Stewart, who is coming to Austin next Friday, February 23rd, for a book reading. But when I opened the Statesman this morning, I saw they’d beat me to the punch by running an ...
Amy Stewart’s coming to Austin
February 15, 2007 I was planning to do a plug next Monday for fellow garden blogger Amy Stewart, who is coming to Austin next Friday, February 23rd, for a book reading. But when I opened the Statesman this morning, I saw they’d beat me to the punch by running an ...
Mountain lions in urban areas — Are they in Austin?
September 21, 2006 In July I posted about The Beast in the Garden by David Baron, a nonfictional look at Boulder’s experience with mountain lions moving into suburbia. A real page-turner, the book follows the escalation of lion attacks from pets to humans, as well as the changing perceptions of ...
Read This: The Beast in the Garden
July 12, 2006 I don’t have to contend with deer in my garden, but I fear that day is coming. Living as I do in an older, in-town neighborhood, separated from the greenbelt-banded, hilly neighborhood to the west by a busy highway, I’ve never had plants chomped by deer or ...
