My article about John Fairey's Peckerwood Garden wins award
April 15, 2013 Last year I wrote an article for Garden Design magazine about Texas plantsman John Fairey and Peckerwood Garden, his decades-in-the-making collector’s garden in Hempstead. “The Plant Man” appeared in the June 2012 issue of Garden Design (now, sadly, out of business). I’m surprised and happy to tell ...
My article about John Fairey’s Peckerwood Garden wins award
April 15, 2013 Last year I wrote an article for Garden Design magazine about Texas plantsman John Fairey and Peckerwood Garden, his decades-in-the-making collector’s garden in Hempstead. “The Plant Man” appeared in the June 2012 issue of Garden Design (now, sadly, out of business). I’m surprised and happy to tell ...
Hungry to lose the lawn? Vegetarian Times buzzes about Lawn Gone!
March 27, 2013 While flipping through the enticing April/May 2013 issue of Vegetarian Times magazine, which has just hit newsstands, you’ll find that my book, Lawn Gone!, got a whole page of coverage in “The Buzz” on page 16! Willi Galloway, author of the popular Grow Cook Eat, interviewed me ...
Birds & Blooms loves Lawn Gone!
March 23, 2013 I’m delighted to see that my book is recommended in the May issue of Birds & Blooms magazine. They dubbed Lawn Gone! one of their “Books We Love.” Yay! Thanks, Birds & Blooms! I love your magazine too. Speaking of birds, we’ve had quite the saga with ...
My gardening website picks are in HGTV Magazine
February 28, 2013Look for me in this month’s issue of HGTV MagazineWant to know which gardening websites four “experts,” including moi, find indispensable? Then check out the March 2013 issue of HGTV Magazine, page 130. We were asked to name our favorite gardening blog, planting guide, online shop, and app ...
Look for my small-plants story in Garden Design magazine
January 11, 2013 I opened my mailbox to find the latest issue of Garden Design in there and was delighted to see my latest article, “Small but Spry,” on page 16. It’s about the huge trend in small plants and small-scale gardening, as evidenced by the resurgent popularity of terrariums, ...
Garden Design magazine prints my article about Peckerwood Garden
May 09, 2012 I’m thrilled to tell you that I have an article in Garden Design‘s latest issue (June 2012). “The Plant Man” is a piece about Texas plantsman John Fairey and the design of his renowned garden, Peckerwood, which is home to an astounding collection of rare and unusual ...
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 ...
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 ...
Simple, sophisticated Austin garden in Garden Design magazine
February 04, 2012 One of West Austin’s dramatic, contemporary, cliff-side homes is featured in the current issue of Garden Design magazine (March 2012, pgs. 44-51). Cut and natural limestone and Cor-Ten steel feature prominently in the landscape design by Rick Scheen of LandWest Design Group (for more images, click on ...
Reduce Your Lawn: My design tips appear in Fine Gardening
January 06, 2012 Yippee, a short piece I wrote about how to downsize a lawn appears in the current issue of Fine Gardening (Feb. 2012)! If you’re thinking about ripping out some grass this spring, I hope you’ll find my tips useful. It’s on newsstands now. All material © 2006-2012 ...
My photo of Pavlat garden in Austin Home
September 19, 2011 Austin Home‘s design issue (Fall 2011) lists 22 hot trends, and one of them is growing agaves as a drought-surviving plant. In that vein, they also ran an article on local succulent and cactus guru Jeff Pavlat, and they published one of my photos of his garden ...
Of the garden, but not the garden
April 15, 2011 A few interesting things I’ve seen this week in various gardens around town. First, Southern Living photographer Ralph Anderson leaning in for a close-up of a miniature donkey at Nancy Whitworth’s garden. I drove Steve Bender and Ralph to a couple of gardens while they were here ...
Enchanted evening in Lucinda Hutson’s cantina garden
April 12, 2011 “Let’s go into the garden! Ai-yi-yi-yi!” trills Lucinda Hutson as she leads her guests, each with a rosy prickly-pear margarita in hand, over the threshold of her purple cottage and into her Rosedale garden. Lucinda is the kind of hostess who can pull off such cross-cultural exuberance ...
My photos in Buffalo Spree Home magazine
March 29, 2011 The charming Cottage District in Buffalo, NY, captured the hearts of many a garden blogger last July at Buffa10, the 3rd annual Garden Bloggers Fling. Six of my pictures from that weekend are featured in the Spring 2011 issue of Buffalo Spree Home magazine. One of them ...
My picks for tough roadside conditions in Fine Gardening
December 11, 2010 Fine Gardening is one of my favorite gardening magazines, so I’m especially pleased to be a contributor to the February 2011 issue, which just arrived in my mailbox and should be available on newsstands soon. My regional picks for tough roadside plants for the southern plains are ...
