November 02, 2018
Texas flowering trees for bees
Purple flower clusters that put wisteria to shame dangle from Texas mountain laurel, and sweet white flowers of Mexican plum draw the bees …
Early spring walk at Lady Bird Lake
March 01, 2024 The trail around Lady Bird Lake was pink, brown, and blue last weekend. Peach trees were flowering against a bluebird sky. Bald cypresses were biding their time, waiting to be sure all freezes are over. Eager redbuds proclaimed that spring is here. Their pink-and-fuchsia flowers clustered along …
Read This: Du Pont Gardens of the Brandywine Valley
Du Pont Gardens features five grand gardens created by the wealthy Du Pont family in the Brandywine Valley of Pennsylvania and Delaware …
Earliest spring flowers are popping
Spring has arrived in earnest in Austin about two weeks early. In response to the heat, plants are leaping up and bursting into bloom …
A garden with your coffee at Cosmic Saltillo
Cosmic Saltillo, an Austin coffee shop and beer garden with landscaping by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, has an inviting patio with water features and plants …
Austin interior design on display at Tribeza Interiors Tour
I love interior design almost as much as garden design. And so every January I look forward to the annual Tribeza Interiors Tour …
Digging is 18 years old, and new book news!
Last week I celebrated two milestones: Digging turned 18 years old, and I turned in my new book manuscript! …
Folk art fence faces in South Austin
In a South Austin neighborhood, goofy folk art faces created from upcycled junk are designed to make you smile …
Winter beauty at the Wildflower Center
The crimson berries of Ilex decidua are blazing at the edge of woodlands and in sunny gardens all over Austin …
Last chance to play at Fortlandia at Wildflower Center
Fortlandia ends soon at the Wildflower Center. Before it goes, I visited to see the creatively designed play forts for kids …
Cutting Garden and Fling Party at Chanticleer
In the cutting garden at Chanticleer, arches of entwined willow march along a pine straw path, offering passage through a riot of flowers …
Ringing Bell’s Woodland at Chanticleer Garden
The most secret part of Chanticleer is the entrance to Bell’s Woodland, beyond the cutting garden, which you enter through a hollow tree …
Falling into ruin at Chanticleer Garden
Chanticleer’s Ruin has a fairy tale quality. Plants creep up crumbling walls and emerge from paving, and ghostly faces appear in pools …
Rocking a dry garden at Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden
Many plants we grow in Central Texas appear in Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden, and it’s fun to see them in a new context …
