Fill the Frame: Gardening Gone Wild’s photo contest
October 22, 2011 Saxon Holt, judge of this month’s photo contest at Gardening Gone Wild, says to tell a story with your photo, including no more and no less than what’s needed to convey that story. October’s theme for the contest is “Fill the Frame,” and this is my entry, ...
Getting the blues in the garden
October 08, 2011 A few more long views of the garden reveal just how blue and silver all my accessories are. I used to lean more to browns, golds, and rust, but perhaps I’m trying to visually cool things down these days. I even have a lot of blue and ...
Color-rich Farley Garden at Seattle Garden Bloggers Fling
August 17, 2011 Kate Farley’s west Seattle garden, which I visited on Day 3 of the Seattle Garden Bloggers Fling, is a garden of exploration from front to back. I’m going to start in back, because the Peruvian lilies (Alstroemeria) were blooming spectacularly, a huge swath glowing salmon-orange in the ...
Nursery tour: Ravenna Gardens in Seattle, a color explosion
August 10, 2011 What could top off a day of garden touring at the Seattle Garden Bloggers Fling? A happy hour, complete with swag bags, at stylish urban nursery/garden shop Ravenna Gardens. Located in an upscale outdoor mall just a couple of blocks from our hotel in the University District, ...
Garden Designers Roundtable: Shades of Limelight on the Garden Stage (& Other One-Color Gardens)
June 27, 2011 In Breakfast at Tiffany’s Holly Golightly cautions, “There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.” Maybe so, but not a garden’s complexion. For proof, I give you these images of a limelight-colored border from the Biltmore House gardens in Asheville, North Carolina, which ...
Book Review: Fearless Color Gardens
January 27, 2010 San Francisco Bay-area artist and garden designer Keeyla Meadows offers playful, step-by-step guidelines to making colorful gardens in her new book Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener’s Guide to Jumping Off the Color Wheel. Illustrating her ideas with dozens of images from her own vibrant garden, Meadows ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2009: Cheryl Goveia's garden
October 24, 2009 The fall Travis County Master Gardeners tour today featured six gardens that fit the theme of “Sustainable Gardening for Urban Wildlife.” Three of them are the creations of Austin garden bloggers. Each one offered something unique and personal. But by far the most colorful and fun-loving garden ...
Tom Spencer's TexZen garden
May 14, 2008 Blue pot with dianthus Can a garden you’ve visited only three times, briefly, seem almost as familiar as your own? It can if it’s Tom Spencer’s. At Soul of the Garden, Tom has been chronicling his garden—and “exploring the garden of life”—with stunning photographs and introspective essays ...
Tom Spencer’s TexZen garden
May 14, 2008 Blue pot with dianthus Can a garden you’ve visited only three times, briefly, seem almost as familiar as your own? It can if it’s Tom Spencer’s. At Soul of the Garden, Tom has been chronicling his garden—and “exploring the garden of life”—with stunning photographs and introspective essays ...
Yellow
April 11, 2007 Purple prickly pear (Opuntia macrocentra) flower Flower buds cover this purplish cactus. The first two have opened, to much enthusiasm on my part. I’ve never had a prickly pear bloom before, and when I first saw the flowers budding I mistook them for new pad buds. A ...
