How to plan and plant a school garden: Two years' progress
October 01, 2007 Gulf muhly grass glows pink against the setting sun in the school garden. Welcome to part two of “Growing a School Garden.” Click here to read part one. It takes vision to look at a dead courtyard like this and envision a garden. However, teachers tend to ...
How to plan and plant a school garden: Two years of progress
October 01, 2007 Gulf muhly grass glows pink against the setting sun in the school garden. Welcome to part two of “Growing a School Garden.” Click here to read part one. It takes vision to look at a dead courtyard like this and envision a garden. However, teachers tend to ...
Watersaver Lane at San Antonio Botanical Garden
September 11, 2007 Conserving water is integral to “green” gardening in central Texas. Although Austin receives an average of 32 inches of rain a year, much of our rainfall is concentrated in spring and fall and in heavy showers that run off quickly rather than soaking into the soil. Yet ...
“Garden Design” features Austin garden
July 30, 2007 Late-afternoon sun lights up Mexican oregano in the front garden. On the right—‘Whale’s Tongue’ agave, narrowleaf zinnia, and miscanthus grass. Check out the August/September 2007 issue of Garden Design for a 10-page spread on a dramatic Austin garden. Terraced with plates of Cor-Ten steel and planted with ...
"Garden Design" features Austin garden
July 30, 2007 Late-afternoon sun lights up Mexican oregano in the front garden. On the right—‘Whale’s Tongue’ agave, narrowleaf zinnia, and miscanthus grass. Check out the August/September 2007 issue of Garden Design for a 10-page spread on a dramatic Austin garden. Terraced with plates of Cor-Ten steel and planted with ...
How to lay a flagstone patio for outdoor living space
July 29, 2007 Stone patio, October 2006 I wasn’t yet blogging in 2003, when I dry-laid a small, stone patio in the back garden. So when South Carolina Pam asked me about its construction, after its appearance in my last post, I decided to write a belated “how I did ...
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 ...
