Unscripted beauty in Scripter meadow garden: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
July 10, 2019 Larry and Mary Scripter grew up in prairie country, Larry on a farm in Kansas and Mary in the Black Hills of South Dakota, surrounded by the Great Plains. So it’s not surprising that they’re drawn to grassy meadow gardens and have created one at their home ...
TatTopia garden embraces stonework and sustainability: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
July 09, 2019 When the construction dust settled at Tatiana Maxwell’s new energy-wise home, studio, and guest house in Boulder, Colorado, in 2010, the yard was just an expanse of bare dirt. Her first thought was to build an English-style cottage garden. But after brainstorming with stonemason artist Thea Alvin ...
Lunch in the garden at Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
July 07, 2019 Dining on Persian chickpea kufteh, tofu Thai curry, and teacakes beneath a grape arbor in a sunken rose garden at the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse was an elegant upgrade from the usual box lunches on Day 2 of the Denver Garden Bloggers Fling (June 2019). Boulder is a ...
Bowled over by Linda Boley’s garden: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
July 07, 2019 A copper tree, its muscular branches devoid of leaves, stands as an organic sculpture in the Boulder, Colorado, rock garden of Linda Boley. The painted Japanese lilac caught my eye as soon as our bus arrived during the Denver Garden Bloggers Fling tour (June 2019). It signaled ...
Strouse Garden gazes toward the Rockies: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
July 01, 2019 It’s hard to compete with a grand view of the Rocky Mountains. And why would you? TLC Gardens instead created space-defining, bird-sheltering, pollinator-friendly beds around the Lafayette, Colorado, home of Jim and Laura Strouse, which I toured on Day 2 of the Denver Garden Bloggers Fling (June ...
Jean Morgan’s garden will make you smile: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
June 30, 2019 As our tour bus of 40+ bloggers arrived at the Louisville, Colorado, home of Jean Morgan, one visitor reached down to pick up a stray piece of trash in Jean’s garden. Only the crumpled Hershey bar wrapper wasn’t trash. It’s part of a cheeky vignette — Happily ...
Getting seedy at Botanical Interests: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
June 29, 2019 At the annual Garden Bloggers Fling, we sometimes get insider tours of nurseries, garden-book publishers, and magazine test gardens. At Denver Fling (June 2019), we toured Botanical Interests seed company, 24-year-old family business co-owned by Judy Seaborn. Judy (center) has been a longtime Flinger (her company’s blog ...
Crevice gardens to crave at the garden of Carol Shinn: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
June 28, 2019 Colorado gardeners are crazy for crevice gardens, and no wonder. When the Rocky Mountains peek over your back fence, creating a miniature mountain range in your yard makes perfect sense. Alpine plants that thrive at high altitude and require excellent drainage love these rocky niches. Crevice gardens ...
Jan Devore Garden under the pines: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
June 27, 2019 The first private garden on the Denver Garden Bloggers Fling tour (June 2019) was located in Fort Collins, about an hour north of Denver. From the street, cottage garden favorites greeted us. Owner Jan Devore planted the small front garden with Rosa glauca and purple irises — ...
Rocking it at Gardens on Spring Creek: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
June 25, 2019 On a road trip to Devils Tower last August, I passed through Fort Collins, Colorado, and took the opportunity to visit The Gardens on Spring Creek. Construction was underway, doubling the size of the gardens, and so only some of the spaces were open: a flowery entry ...
Welcome to Colorado and High Plains Environmental Center: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
June 23, 2019 Just two hours away by plane but a mile high in altitude, Denver is a world away from subtropical Austin thanks to its short growing season (freezes can occur as late as June and as early as September), low humidity (ahhh!), and aridity (just 15 inches of ...
On podcast Cultivating Place, talking about Garden Bloggers Fling and finding community
March 08, 2019 Garden bloggers have been meeting up and touring gardens with Garden Bloggers Fling for more than a decade. Today I’m interviewed along with Judy Seaborn, organizer of this year’s Fling in Denver, by Jennifer Jewell on the podcast Cultivating Place about what the Fling means to those of us who ...
Welcome to Austin
February 10, 2008 Do you picture cowboys, cattle, and cactus when you think about Austin, Texas? If so, consider instead how we Austinites see our hometown: Live Music Capital of the World and home to PBS’s long-running “Austin City Limits” concert series. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson, the Chicks, Spoon, ...
