The garden in mid-May and early June, when yuccas and coneflowers were blooming and everything was still fresh and not heat-stressed …

The Garden Refresh shares handy gardening tips and creative ideas, illustrated by beautiful photos, for beginning and veteran gardeners …

I have new pipe planters in my garden! Here I share the process of getting these rusty pipes planted up with yuccas, and why …

We cheered on the racing canoes and kayaks in the Texas Water Safari on the San Marcos River. And then we chilled in the water ourselves …

The night garden in early summer glows with spires of creamy, bell-shaped yucca blossoms and fragrant trumpets of datura …

Jennifer Jewell and I visited the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in early May, when the late-spring wildflowers were in party mode …

An exuberant, tropical-style front garden in South Austin with bananas and crinums and poppies, oh my …

Suddenly they’re everywhere, tiny fawns stashed in hiding places — under a bush, behind a potted plant, in a clump of feathergrass …

Lori is always in the middle of a garden project, which means there’s always something new to see when visiting her lovely garden …

Laura turned her big front yard into a meadowy garden of drought-tolerant wildflowers, grasses, and salvias. In back she cuts loose with cottagey flowers that like a little more water …

Delphiniums and hollyhocks and roses, oh my! Andrew and Jared of gayswhogarden invited me to see the spring show in their East Austin garden …

Tait Moring’s garden stands out for its stonework and a collection of castoffs from clients, which Tait assembles into artful vignettes …

Matt Shreves has opened a cactus and succulent nursery in Lakeway. I recently drove to OG Agave’s Plant Paradise to take a look …

John Ignacio’s garden in northwest Austin is a treasure box of rare plants that he has collected and hybridized …