Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2019 Succulent skeleton at Vivero Growers It’s Halloween, and I hope you have a fun-filled… Halloween display at a neighbor’s house …or rockin’… Spooky clowns at Leaf Landscape Supply (north location) …or downright scary night, as your heart desires. B00! __________________________ Digging Deeper Come learn about gardening and ...
Peanuts gang at Dallas Arboretum pumpkin patch
October 22, 2019 Oh, good grief! It’s the Great Pumpkin, and Dallas Arboretum has invited us all to join Linus, Charlie Brown, and the Peanuts gang in the most sincere pumpkin patch to be found. Well, at least the most crowded. We visited during the Texas-OU weekend, not for the ...
Joy to the Weird: Austin’s 37th and 35th Street Christmas lights
December 25, 2018 Merry Christmas, Joy to the Weird, and festive holiday greetings to you from Austin! Last night, on Christmas Eve, my family and I joined curious throngs of people walking and cruising along W. 37th Street, with a jog down Home Lane and over to W. 35th Street, ...
Moonstruck and aglow at Wildflower Center’s Luminations
December 10, 2018 Under a fingernail sliver of moon, we strolled quiet garden paths illuminated with hundreds of glowing luminarias, ultraviolet uplighting on trees, and the occasional white moon light at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center last night. The annual holiday event runs for four nights, but following two ...
Deer, egrets, and aloes and a happy Thanksgiving to you
November 22, 2018 The buck stops here. And here and here and, well, everywhere in my neighborhood in autumn. On our daily stroll, the dog and I walk a gauntlet of edgy male deer standing vigil near groups of does. It’s rutting season, and bucks like this one are not ...
Dia de los Muertos in Lucinda Hutson’s festive home and garden
November 05, 2018 As a native of border city El Paso and a veteran traveler throughout Mexico, Lucinda Hutson has long embraced Mexican culture and traditions like Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. She recently hosted a small gathering in honor of the holiday, which is a ...
Eerie and occult Wilde Collection in Houston
October 31, 2018 On this spookiest of days, when ghosts and evil spirits walk among the living, it seems appropriate to share with you an eerie shop that my daughter and I stumbled upon in Houston — The Wilde Collection. Occult, odd, and mysterious items, artfully arranged on shelves and ...
Second star to the right and straight on to the pumpkin patch at Dallas Arboretum
October 02, 2018 Join Wendy, the Lost Boys, and Tinkerbell in Neverland this fall at Dallas Arboretum’s magical Pumpkin Village. This year’s theme is “The Adventures in Neverland,” and it marks the 13th year of the garden’s creative display of thousands of colorful pumpkins, gourds, and squash. I sprinkled myself ...
Bloggers soaked up Austin at Garden Bloggers Fling
May 11, 2018 For 11 years I’ve traveled to cities around North America to attend Garden Bloggers Fling, and I’ve helped organize two Flings held in Austin — in and again last weekend. Normally I take hundreds of pictures of the gardens I visit. (Go to Categories in my sidebar ...
The twinkliest town in the Hill Country
December 22, 2017 If you want to see trees made of light and a charmingly illuminated main square, go visit Johnson City, a small town of 2,000 residents, located about an hour west of Austin. Every December they turn their town into a beautiful spectacle of light — called Lights ...
Austin shines brightly at Trail of Lights and Zilker Tree
December 13, 2017 Five years have slipped by since we’ve walked Austin’s beloved holiday light display at Zilker Park called Trail of Lights. When our kids were little we went every year, and our last visit was in 2012, but this year it was just me and my husband keeping ...
Luminations lights up the Wildflower Center for Christmas
December 11, 2017 Luminations, the annual holiday light display at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, didn’t happen last year. But it returned this year for a 4-night run that ended Sunday night. Our family went last night and had a lovely time viewing the lights along the paths and ...
Leaf-peeping, zombies, and Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
November 03, 2017 Last Friday my husband and I drove up to northern Arkansas for an extended weekend just before Halloween, hoping to see colorful fall foliage while making a first-time visit to Eureka Springs. I didn’t know what to expect from Eureka Springs aside from hilly terrain, natural springs, ...
Botanical art at Stutsman garden, plus Dallas/Fort Worth nurseries
October 14, 2017 I road-tripped up to Dallas/Fort Worth last weekend with a friend for two days of garden visiting and nursery shopping. The Garden Conservancy was hosting an Open Days tour in Fort Worth on Sunday, and my favorite garden turned out to be that of metal artist Wanda ...
Pumpkins in the land of Oz at Dallas Arboretum
October 12, 2017 Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! But the woman in front of the curtain? That’s Diana, my friend and fellow explorer last weekend at the annual Pumpkin Village at Dallas Arboretum. This year the Arboretum carries you off like a tornado to “The Wonderful ...
Hearts to you on my 11th blogiversary!
February 14, 2017 Valentine’s Day, specifically February 14, 2006, marks the day I published my very first blog post here at Digging. Eleven years later I’m still at it, and it’s all thanks to you! Chinese ground orchid (Bletilla striata) Your interest in reading about my gardening adventures and misadventures, ...
