November 02, 2018
Jenny Stocker’s English Texas gravel garden
November 03, 2011 My friend Jenny Stocker, who blogs at Rock Rose, has shared her garden with me many times over the years. Each time I am struck anew by the beauty of her English-style xeric Texas garden, which shows many native plants to advantage in gravel-mulched, walled courtyards surrounding …
Dallas Arboretum: Sculpture, crepe myrtle allee, & Fireworks
November 01, 2011 Here are a few more scenes from my mid-October visit to the Dallas Arboretum, which I still have not seen in full despite two visits over the years. Both visits were brief—no more than an hour and a half—so I’ve only discovered bits and pieces of the …
Dallas Arboretum: Sculpture, crape myrtle allee, & Fireworks
November 01, 2011 Here are a few more scenes from my mid-October visit to the Dallas Arboretum, which I still have not seen in full despite two visits over the years. Both visits were brief—no more than an hour and a half—so I’ve only discovered bits and pieces of the …
Fairy tale Halloween at Dallas Arboretum pumpkin patch
October 31, 2011 Happy Halloween! How do you like these warty, spooky, gray pumpkins? These and many, many more are on display now through November 23 at the Dallas Arboretum’s Autumn Festival, a fantasyland of pumpkins and pumpkin houses that attracts hordes of camera-snapping moms and dads and costumed tots …
The garden loves late October, and so do I
October 30, 2011 Is April the best month in the garden? May? No, surely it’s October, when the Death Star shifts its beam to the Southern Hemisphere, nights offer cool relief, and we even get an occasional rain shower. The garden, released from its summer thrall, responds with elation, bursting …
Plant This: Spanish flag, aka exotic love vine
October 28, 2011 A one-two punch of stunning photos on Meredith O’Reilly’s Great Stems and a positive write-up in Armitage’s Vines and Climbers sent me running to the seed rack at the nursery last spring. I bought a Renee’s Garden pack of Spanish flag vine (Mina lobata) and soon after …
The winners of the Barton Springs Nursery giveaways are…
October 27, 2011 Thank you to everyone who left a comment to be entered into my two giveaways from Barton Springs Nursery, my favorite nursery in Austin. Digging is one of eight Austin garden blogs paired with eight local nurseries participating in the Austin Nurseries Giveaway. It’s all part of …
Support Your Independent Nursery Month & Giveaway — last day to enter!
October 26, 2011 It’s Support Your Independent Nursery Month! Each Wednesday in October I’ve posted about one of my favorite independent garden centers in the Austin area, including Barton Springs Nursery (where I photographed the chalkboard pictured above!), The Natural Gardener, and The Great Outdoors. Today I’m shining a spotlight …
Fill the Frame: Gardening Gone Wild’s photo contest
October 22, 2011 Saxon Holt, judge of this month’s photo contest at Gardening Gone Wild, says to tell a story with your photo, including no more and no less than what’s needed to convey that story. October’s theme for the contest is “Fill the Frame,” and this is my entry, …
Plano Prairie Garden alight with fall color
October 21, 2011 Sometimes you just luck into a great garden visit. Last weekend my family and I drove up to Dallas for the state fair, staying overnight at my father-in-law’s house in Richardson, a northern suburb. The day we left Austin I realized that we would be staying very …
Support Your Independent Nursery Month: The Great Outdoors
October 19, 2011It’s Support Your Independent Nursery month! Each Wednesday in October I’m posting about one of my favorite independent garden centers in the Austin area. Today I’m shining a spotlight on The Great Outdoors, located just south of the hip strip known as SoCo on South Congress Avenue. (This …
Austin Nurseries Giveaway: Barton Springs Nursery
October 16, 2011 I’m thrilled to announce that as part of Support Your Independent Nursery Month, eight local nurseries are partnering with Austin garden bloggers for a giveaway blogathon! Prizes from locally owned nurseries around town are being offered in random drawings on eight Austin garden blogs, and all you …
Support Your Independent Nursery Month: The Natural Gardener
October 12, 2011 It’s Support Your Independent Nursery month! Each Wednesday in October I’m posting about one of my favorite independent garden centers in the Austin area. Today I’m shining a spotlight on The Natural Gardener, located at 8648 Old Bee Cave Road, just past the “Y” in Oak Hill …
Getting the blues in the garden
October 08, 2011 A few more long views of the garden reveal just how blue and silver all my accessories are. I used to lean more to browns, golds, and rust, but perhaps I’m trying to visually cool things down these days. I even have a lot of blue and …
