Lucinda Hutson's purple cottage, cantina garden, and Viva Tequila!
April 24, 2013Lucinda Hutson’s festive home and garden in Austin My friend Lucinda Hutson invited me over to her purple cottage on Sunday to see her angel’s trumpets in bloom, plus all the rest of her exuberant, flowery garden. Lighting up her quiet Rosedale neighborhood street like a fiesta in ...
Lucinda Hutson’s purple cottage, cantina garden, and Viva Tequila!
April 24, 2013Lucinda Hutson’s festive home and garden in AustinMy friend Lucinda Hutson invited me over to her purple cottage on Sunday to see her angel’s trumpets in bloom, plus all the rest of her exuberant, flowery garden. Lighting up her quiet Rosedale neighborhood street like a fiesta in full ...
Spring garden stroll
April 09, 2013 After the big rain of last week (3.75 inches recorded in my garden), accompanied by an instant freshening and greening up outdoors, I feel it’s time for a garden stroll. The annual garden-burying live oak leaf drop is over, but you’ll have to ignore remnant leaves and ...
Whimsical Westview Road garden on Austin’s Funky Chicken Coop Tour
March 31, 2013 No, I’m not looking for a Mildred or Louise to eat bugs and lay eggs in my garden. But I couldn’t resist buying a ticket to Austin’s 5th annual Funky Chicken Coop Tour after watching a recent Central Texas Gardener episode (below) about Dani and Gary Moss’s ...
Groundhog Day garden happenings
February 02, 2013 Yes, I do in fact have a water lily blooming at the moment. January was mild, and it remains beautiful in Austin this week, with sunny days and highs in the 70s, and the ‘Colorado’ water lily in the stock-tank pond has responded with a pale apricot ...
Subscribe to Digging via email
January 20, 2013 I’m very pleased to tell you that I’ve set up an email subscription service for fans of Digging. Previously you could subscribe to my blog via rss feed, and you still can by clicking on the rss button (under “Connect with Me”; the button on the far ...
How to green up your winter garden in central Texas
January 17, 2013 Texas dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor), foxtail fern (Asparagus densiflorus ‘Meyersii’), heartleaf skullcap (Scutellaria ovata), sparkler sedge (Carex phyllocephala ‘Sparkler’), and bamboo muhly (Muhlenbergia dumosa) add plenty of greenery to the winter garden. Audrey, a regular reader of Digging, recently asked me how to plant for winter greenery, ...
Colored walls in a desert oasis: Garden of Alan Richards
October 25, 2012Rhapsody in blue What do you expect to see when you visit a desert garden? Cactus, of course, in all its architectural, spiny splendor. I recently attended the annual Garden Writers Association Symposium, held this year in Tucson, Arizona. We were bused to three private gardens, along with ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Jennifer and David Phillips Garden
October 13, 2012 One of the gardens on our sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners, was a newly constructed 5-star green home on a caliche-rugged property in West Austin. The design of the house was appealing (one blogger pointed out ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Ann and Robin Matthews Garden
October 11, 2012 I’m continuing my sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners. In my last post I showed you Donnis Doyle’s colorful, whimsical garden. This garden belongs to her next-door neighbors, Ann and Robin Matthews, and they’ve been friends and ...
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 ...
Can I, can I get a Tropicanna canna?
June 11, 2012 I’ve been immune to the charms of canna for many years, finding them too tropical in looks and too water-loving for my gardening taste and habits. So I was caught off guard by my longing for a bright orange ‘Tropicanna’ canna after I spotted one paired with ...
Asheville Garden Bloggers Fling: Christopher Mello’s garden has the blues
May 30, 2012 Blue bottles on blue trees Blue chairs Blue flying baby heads Blue walls Blue rocks And ‘Blue Pearl’ poppies, the bluer ones in this group—a new cultivar selected by Christopher Mello, who welcomed nearly 90 garden bloggers into his eclectic, colorful, recycled-art garden on the first day ...
Spike it! Bloom spires in my garden
April 12, 2012 The garden is certainly not vertically challenged this spring. Many of my woody lilies are in bloom, stretching skyward with skinny bloom spikes topped with tubular, triangular, or cascading flowers. This tiny aloe used to live on my kitchen windowsill, where it bloomed regularly. It seems to ...
Agave and upper patio garden on a slope
March 13, 2012 Close-ups are great for appreciating the beauty of a single plant, but it’s harder to convey the overall feeling of a garden with a wide shot. While taking a break this afternoon from design work, I stepped into the back garden with camera in hand and took ...
Marching into spring
March 09, 2012 For a mostly evergreen garden, mine is looking pretty flowery right now, although perhaps not in the wide view. I took these pics yesterday after I’d planted several new plants and before the cold front and rain blew in, dropping temperatures from the 80s to the 50s ...
