North Austin gardeners have cause to celebrate the recent arrival of Leaf Landscape Supply, which for years operated only out of South Austin but has now taken over the old Countryside Nursery location on Pond Springs Road …

My yellow spider lilies (Lycoris aurea) are at peak bloom. Every flower has opened and seems filled with golden sunlight. They thrill me every time I look though my office window or step out onto the back patio …

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 …

With the Death Star at bay and a little rain last week, the plants are rejoicing with a flush of flowers. It’s a second spring for us Texas gardeners …

Golden hour is a lot more golden when yellow spider lilies (Lycoris aurea) are blooming. Even after a hot, dry summer, these tough but glorious bulbs popped up right on schedule with our first fall rain …

On Saturday, November 2, you can visit six private gardens in Austin through the Garden Conservancy Open Days program from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m …

Looking for a native Texas shrub that stays 3-to-4 feet tall, attracts pollinators with pretty pink-and-cream flowers in spring and early fall, produces small red fruits that birds love, and is evergreen in mild winters? Meet dwarf Barbados cherry …

October 10, 2019 Never pass up a chance to see something creative or unusual. Seeing how someone’s passion gets turned into art fascinates me. So when I heard about Casa Neverlandia, the home of fellow Rice University grad, artist, architect, and free spirit James Talbot, I knew I had to …

Help the monarchs. Cut back your tropical milkweed plants in early October as monarch butterflies migrate south through Texas …

Austin artist Bill Tavis recently completed a zigzagging, energetic mural of Texas blanketflower on a large wall along Wood Hollow Drive in northwest Austin …

I welcome butterflies to my garden, whether floral or faunal …

Austin is eager to bid a less-than-fond farewell to summer after a record-breaking hot and dry September. I can already see a change in the light, and my garden got a bit of rain last week. With any luck, by next week temperatures will finally drop …

Mexican beautyberry is tall, dark, and handsome. It grew to 8 feet tall by its third year in my garden and equally wide. It may grow even larger, but I’ve had to prune it back a bit from my paths …

A week ago in my friend Cat Jones’s garden, I found my attention divided between her new canyon-side stock-tank pond topped with a glorious flowering crinum and the rolling, green canyon vista itself …