Giveaways

October 26, 2011 It’s Support Your Independent Nursery Month! Each Wednesday in October I’ve posted about one of my favorite independent garden centers in the Austin area, including Barton Springs Nursery (where I photographed the chalkboard pictured above!), The Natural Gardener, and The Great Outdoors. Today I’m shining a spotlight ...

October 19, 2011It’s Support Your Independent Nursery month! Each Wednesday in October I’m posting about one of my favorite independent garden centers in the Austin area. Today I’m shining a spotlight on The Great Outdoors, located just south of the hip strip known as SoCo on South Congress Avenue. (This ...

October 16, 2011 I’m thrilled to announce that as part of Support Your Independent Nursery Month, eight local nurseries are partnering with Austin garden bloggers for a giveaway blogathon! Prizes from locally owned nurseries around town are being offered in random drawings on eight Austin garden blogs, and all you ...

June 20, 2011 To celebrate the publication of my friend and colleague Ivette Soler’s first book, The Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden, I hosted a giveaway last week. A whopping 120 commenters vied for a chance to win a copy of Ivette’s book, ...

June 13, 2011 My friend and colleague Ivette Soler, aka The Germinatrix, has just published her first book, The Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden (Timber Press, 2011). I’m so happy for her accomplishment and am certain her book will do well. Ivette has ...

March 19, 2011 I’ve had a remarkable response to my giveaway of the succulent living picture kit. This Sunday, March 20, at 11 pm is the deadline for entering the drawing. To enter all you have to do is leave a comment on my post about Garden Up! (Note: you ...

March 14, 2011 Today is the official launch of Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces, a new book by Susan Morrison and Rebecca Sweet, my friends and colleagues at Garden Designers Roundtable. To celebrate, Rebecca and Susan are hosting a cyber book party with 7 great ...

January 28, 2011 On Monday I reviewed Andrea Bellamy’s Sugar Snaps and Strawberries and promised to give a copy of the book to a local reader. To be eligible, one had to 1) live in Austin, 2) leave a comment telling me about your desire to grow edibles, and 3) ...

January 24, 2011 Like a rebel without a cause, I continue to resist growing edibles despite the current fad and inspiring examples of fellow gardeners and bloggers who savor their homegrown fruits and vegetables. Sure, I stick a basil plant in the ground each spring and harvest the leaves all ...

February 21, 2010 Between last Sunday and this morning, 91 of you left a comment on my 4th blogiversary giveaway post! Many thanks for all the good wishes, and for playing along. At 10 a.m. I used a random number generator to select three numbers and matched those up to ...

February 20, 2010 After all the lovely comments (85 so far!) from all you lovely readers on my 4th blogiversary post, I’m still smiling and feeling like I’ve been to a fun party. Now I know I enticed you to comment with my giveaway offer of three sets of notecards ...

February 20, 2010 After all the lovely comments (85 so far!) from all you lovely readers on my 4th blogiversary post, I’m still smiling and feeling like I’ve been to a fun party. Now I know I enticed you to comment with my giveaway offer of three sets of notecards ...

February 14, 2010 Four years ago I found gardening to be a solitary pursuit. Four years ago I didn’t have conversations with gardeners all over the world. Four years ago I didn’t know I could take a photo that other people would enjoy. Four years ago I couldn’t have imagined ...

February 14, 2010 Four years ago I found gardening to be a solitary pursuit. Four years ago I didn’t have conversations with gardeners all over the world. Four years ago I didn’t know I could take a photo that other people would enjoy. Four years ago I couldn’t have imagined ...

September 05, 2009 This red dragonfly makes a daily appearance at the stock-tank pond, and it is really quite tame about letting me approach. He has suffered a wing injury of late, though it doesn’t seem to slow him down. The blue dragonfly comes around less frequently and proves to ...

August 31, 2009 ‘Irish Eyes’ rudbeckia My thanks to all the new gardeners who commented on my review of The Perennial Care Manual, an excellent new book by Nancy Ondra. As you may remember, I am giving away one copy to a local newbie gardener and one to a non-local ...