New fish in the stock-tank pond
September 13, 2012 Splish-splash! All material © 2006-2012 by Pam Penick for Digging. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited ...
See an indoor rainforest at the Dallas World Aquarium
June 22, 2012 In May, while in Dallas for the Chihuly exhibit at the Dallas Arboretum, my family and I also visited the Dallas World Aquarium, which is misleadingly named. Sure, there are tanks of fish, sharks, and anemones. But there are also naturalistic exhibits of penguins, otters, manatees, and ...
Green heron fishing in my pond
June 17, 2012 An early-morning thief has been visiting my stock-tank pond for the past couple of days—this green heron. Glancing out at the pond around 8 am two days ago, I spotted this fellow stalking my fish from the edge of the tank. He walked stealthily all the way ...
Asheville Garden Bloggers Fling: Wamboldtopia, an artists’ garden
May 25, 2012 Skulls, skeletons, gravestone fragments, gargoyles, and other eerie tokens are tucked into nooks and crannies… …and dangle from the eaves throughout Wamboldtopia, an art-filled garden (or garden of art) and stonemason’s paradise located off Wamboldt Avenue in west Asheville. The Goth accents… …are countered by a slew ...
Dallas Open Days Tour 2012: Middleton Farm Garden
May 11, 2012 My second stop on the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days tour last weekend was the Middleton Farm Garden, a contemporary home with homesteading flair in suburban north Dallas. Here’s the official description: A suburban oasis loosely composed as three distinct aspects. A casual, manicured space of green lawn, ...
Houston Open Days Tour 2012: Lofgren-Bayer Garden
April 04, 2012 My next stop on the Houston Open Days tour on March 24 was the clean-lined Lofgren-Bayer Garden, also located in the close-in Montrose neighborhood. Pictured above is a lovely dining patio in the rear garden. The official description of the garden: A stately live oak dominates this ...
How to make a container pond in a stock tank
July 14, 2009Over the years of blogging about my stock-tank ponds (a 100-gallon container pond in my former garden, and this new 717-gallon one), I’ve been asked many times how I constructed them. I finished the new pond yesterday evening, so I’ll explain how I did it, from start to ...
Zilker Botanical Garden: Isamu Taniguchi Japanese Garden
November 02, 2007 Aside from the new-ish Hartman Prehistoric Garden, my favorite section of Zilker Botanical Garden is the venerable Taniguchi Japanese Garden. Created as a labor of love and opened in 1969, . . . the Garden was built by Mr. Taniguchi when he was seventy years old. Working ...
Summer's end
August 29, 2007 ‘Valentine’ rose. The new camera handled the saturated red pretty well. Kids are back in school. Classes began at the University of Texas today, adding 48,000 college students to our city’s population. The temperature remains surprisingly low for August (low 90s), and we even got a few ...
Summer’s end
August 29, 2007 ‘Valentine’ rose. The new camera handled the saturated red pretty well. Kids are back in school. Classes began at the University of Texas today, adding 48,000 college students to our city’s population. The temperature remains surprisingly low for August (low 90s), and we even got a few ...
