Zilker Botanical Garden: Isamu Taniguchi Japanese Garden
November 02, 2007 Aside from the new-ish Hartman Prehistoric Garden, my favorite section of Zilker Botanical Garden is the venerable Taniguchi Japanese Garden. Created as a labor of love and opened in 1969, . . . the Garden was built by Mr. Taniguchi when he was seventy years old. Working ...
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 ...
Visit to San Antonio Botanical Garden
September 06, 2007 At summer’s end, Pride of Barbados ( Caesalpinia pulcherrima) steals the show at the entrance to the Botanical Garden, paired with butterfly weed and a tall ornamental grass. On a business trip in San Antonio last week, I lucked into an hour to spare before I needed ...
Summer’s end
August 29, 2007 ‘Valentine’ rose. The new camera handled the saturated red pretty well. Kids are back in school. Classes began at the University of Texas today, adding 48,000 college students to our city’s population. The temperature remains surprisingly low for August (low 90s), and we even got a few ...
Summer's end
August 29, 2007 ‘Valentine’ rose. The new camera handled the saturated red pretty well. Kids are back in school. Classes began at the University of Texas today, adding 48,000 college students to our city’s population. The temperature remains surprisingly low for August (low 90s), and we even got a few ...
‘Wilson’s Yellow’ says hello
May 25, 2007 ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ is my showy yellow daylily. Its banana-yellow-and-rusty-red flowers splash pockets of bright color under the cedar elm in the back garden. Yak, yak, yak. Don’t they look like two gossips who haven’t seen each other in a while? ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ complements the low-growing, red-flowering Texas ...
'Wilson's Yellow' says hello
May 25, 2007 ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ is my showy yellow daylily. Its banana-yellow-and-rusty-red flowers splash pockets of bright color under the cedar elm in the back garden. Yak, yak, yak. Don’t they look like two gossips who haven’t seen each other in a while? ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ complements the low-growing, red-flowering Texas ...
Nursery tour: Barton Springs Nursery
April 25, 2007 BSN’s modest sign welcomes visitors, along with roses tumbling over agave and prickly pear. Hmm, I wonder where I picked up that roses-and-cactus aesthetic? With sunny skies and warm, humid temperatures promising a typical spring day in Austin, I decided to pay a visit to an atypical ...
Nursery tour: Natural Gardener
November 05, 2006 In the spirit of my recent Open Days tour, I took my camera along during an afternoon trip to Natural Gardener nursery for a pot of oxalis. It was a simple enough errand, and the cool, gray skies made a tour of the nursery’s gardens very appealing ...
Tour of Penelope Hobhouse-designed garden on Harris Boulevard
October 25, 2006 A belvedere “modeled after the music pavilion at Versailles,” according to the Open Days Directory. We garden tourists knew this would be the most opulent garden on the Open Days Austin tour. A feature in the newspaper that tantalized with lavish photos, and mentioned that the garden ...
Tour of Arth garden
October 24, 2006 Entering James Arth’s garden from the street, you step onto a small lawn punctuated by a “chess pawn” (similar to one in my own garden’s border). Visiting this central Austin garden right after the David-Peese garden was a big change, but its spare geometry rendered in limestone ...
