No Rain? No Problem. Read my interview about waterwise gardening in Garden Gate magazine

August 30, 2019

It’s been a hot, dry summer for a lot of us, and our gardens may be looking pretty parched right about now. I grow a waterwise garden here in Austin, but even so I lost a few plants after the rain spigot cut off in mid-July. There’s always more I can do to make my own garden more of a water-saver, not a water-guzzler, and perhaps you feel the same way.

If so, look for my interview in Garden Gate magazine’s current issue, September/October 2019, on newsstands now. In “No Rain? No Problem. You Can Still Have a Gorgeous Garden” (pages 12-15), editor Sherri Ribbey interviewed me about ways to make any garden more water thrifty, and I shared some of my favorite low-water plants.

I hope you’ll check it out. And if you want to learn even more, pick up a copy of my book The Water-Saving Garden, which Garden Gate is offering through its Web Extras site (issue 149). Happy reading, and then happy planting this fall!

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4 responses to “No Rain? No Problem. Read my interview about waterwise gardening in Garden Gate magazine”

  1. Jerry Ashley says:
    August 30, 2019 at 10:52 AM

    I always enjoy reading your articles and viewing your photos! INSPIRATION!

  2. Nell says:
    August 31, 2019 at 1:57 PM

    Looked for Country Gardens at Lowe’s today, hoping to snag your article on Michael Gordon’s garden, but no luck (that’s where I picked up an earlier issue with PamP content). Hoping that’s because it sold out, but slightly concerned because it looked as if the store’s magazine offerings had shrunk significantly overall).

    • Pam/Digging says:
      August 31, 2019 at 9:49 PM

      Uh-oh, I hope that’s not the case. Not to be sales-y, but it’s worth subscribing to. A subscription often ends up being cheaper if you’d buy more than one issue per year, which you’ll want to because they have such great content. 🙂