November 02, 2018
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 …
Wading into Chanticleer’s Pond Garden
The Pond Garden at Chanticleer draws visitors like a magnet. Water features always do. This time it drew a great blue heron as well …
Into the Asian Woods at Chanticleer
Who says you can’t have flowers in a shade garden? In Chanticleer’s Asian Woods, I spotted a floating bouquet of zinnias, dahlias, and more …
Exploring Chanticleer’s Elevated Walkway, Serpentine, and Bulb Meadow
Exploring the Elevated Walkway, agricultural Serpentine, and Bulb Meadow in fall flower at Chanticleer Garden …
Chanticleer’s dreamy House Garden
I call it a meadow garden. Chanticleer calls it the Flowery Lawn. Whatever you call it, it’s gorgeous: Chanticleer’s House Garden …
Serving up Chanticleer’s Tennis Court Garden
A stair rail planter in Chanticleer’s Tennis Court Garden sports feathery dawn redwood saplings and ‘Snow Flurry’ asters …
Chanticleer Garden is my cup o’ tea
Chanticleer was worth TWO visits during the Philly Area Fling. I flew in early to spend an entire day there, knowing I’d see it again on the tour …
Twinkly trees aglow in Johnson City
Wishing you a merry and bright Christmas, with pics of twinkly trees in Johnson City, Texas. Happy holidays! …
Christmastime flowers and no freeze yet
Here it is Christmas, and Austin has so far escaped a hard freeze. That plus mild temps and occasional rain showers means flowers, flowers, flowers! …
Birds and native thorn forest at Quinta Mazatlan
Exploring the thorn forest and 1930s mansion of Quinta Mazatlan, a World Birding Center in McAllen, Texas …
You’re invited to a gardening talk by Coleson Bruce
Join me on Thursday, January 18th, for an in-person Garden Spark talk by Coleson Bruce, an Austin crevice gardener extraordinaire! …
