Garden writers convene in the desert for Tucson GWA Symposium
October 21, 2012 A few short years ago I didn’t think of myself as a garden writer. I was a garden blogger, plain and simple. But then I started getting offered, and learned to pursue, paid writing assignments, and now I have a book coming out, a fact that still ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Renee Studebaker Garden
October 12, 2012 On our sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners, the Austin garden bloggers got to visit the garden of one of our own: Renee Studebaker, formerly blogging for the Austin American-Stateman at Renee’s Roots and now at Renee’s ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Donnis Doyle Garden
October 10, 2012 The Austin garden bloggers recently got a sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners. We visited 5 gardens, and I hope to be able to show them all to you before the tour date on October 20th. I’ll ...
Digging’s new look debuts
September 28, 2012 It’s time for the big reveal! After 6 years, Digging needed a fresh look and improved navigation, and I got it with the help of Kyla at Freckled Nest Design, a blog-design studio based in Winnipeg (way up in Canada, folks). If you’re reading this in your ...
Digging redesign in the works
September 24, 2012‘Margaritaville’ yucca Digging is getting a makeover this week! I’ve been working on a new look with the help of the crack design team at Freckled Nest, and I’m excited that the big reveal is at hand. The site should be up while the changes are being made, ...
White Gate Inn’s charming garden and goodbye Asheville Fling!
June 03, 2012 While not an official part of the recent Garden Bloggers Fling in Asheville, North Carolina, the garden of the White Gate Inn, just down the street from our hotel, was suggested as a must-see if we had any spare time. So one morning I got up early ...
Asheville Garden Bloggers Fling: Gentling Garden, a mountainside eden
May 23, 2012 The first thing you learn about gardens in Asheville, North Carolina, on the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is that they have a lot of stairs. We’re talking serious elevation changes. What does this mean for the gardeners who live here? Well, for one thing they ...
Gardens on Tour 2012: Brecourt Manor Garden & Foliage Follow-Up
May 16, 2012 The fourth garden on this year’s Wildflower Center-sponsored Gardens on Tour, at 7316 Brecourt Manor Way in southwest Austin, was also the smallest, with only the back yard “gardened up.” The back yard opens to a view of the greenbelt beyond, so native plants were chosen to ...
Lee Clippard’s naturalistic garden with a modern edge
April 29, 2012 I recently visited the East Austin garden belonging to blogger Lee Clippard of The Grackle and Martha Stewart Living fame to get a few pictures for my upcoming book, Lawn Gone!. As you can see, Lee’s lawn is indeed long gone, replaced by a dappled-shade garden of ...
Garden delights with the Whimsical Gardener
April 26, 2012 My friend and fellow blogger Catherine of The Whimsical Gardener invited me to lunch in her garden yesterday, which was abloom with fragrant star jasmine, glowing white abutilon, and these shell-pink ‘Colorado’ water lilies in her stock-tank pond. Catherine recently moved her 4-foot-diameter tank from a focal-point ...
Jenny Stocker’s garden is in Southern Living!
March 22, 2012 My friend Jenny Stocker’s garden has inspired me since before I knew her, when I first visited during a crowded garden tour. I’m so glad to have talked her into starting a garden blog because now I get to see her beautiful pictures of her inspirational garden ...
My 6th blogiversary and I’m still Digging gardens
February 19, 2012 When I started blogging in February 2006, I had no idea I’d still be so passionate about it 6 years, or even a couple of years, later. But blogging has introduced me to so many friends (online and offline), helped me build my garden design business, spurred ...
Gardening is a dialogue: Reading Joe Eck’s Elements of Garden Design
February 13, 2012 I just finished reading Elements of Garden Design by Joe Eck, a delightful series of essays on the theory and practice of garden design. It’s a wonderful book for beginners and experienced gardeners alike, and should be read while curled up on the couch during these last ...
Martha Stewart Living features homeboy Lee Clippard of The Grackle
February 10, 2012 I love to see a friend get well-deserved recognition. Right now I can barely contain my excitement because two of my blogging friends are featured in a story in Martha Stewart Living about garden bloggers and their gardens. Plus, the cover story is about Lotusland, a Santa ...
Support Your Independent Nursery Month: The Great Outdoors
October 19, 2011It’s Support Your Independent Nursery month! Each Wednesday in October I’m posting about one of my favorite independent garden centers in the Austin area. Today I’m shining a spotlight on The Great Outdoors, located just south of the hip strip known as SoCo on South Congress Avenue. (This ...
Austin Nurseries Giveaway: Barton Springs Nursery
October 16, 2011 I’m thrilled to announce that as part of Support Your Independent Nursery Month, eight local nurseries are partnering with Austin garden bloggers for a giveaway blogathon! Prizes from locally owned nurseries around town are being offered in random drawings on eight Austin garden blogs, and all you ...
