A little cottagey romance

May 19, 2022

Delphiniums and hollyhocks and roses, oh my! Andrew Ong and Jared Goza of gayswhogarden invited me to see the spring show in their East Austin garden at the end of April. Although it was unseasonably hot that day, I marveled over their cottage garden beauties, including flowers you don’t often see in Austin, like delphiniums.

A pretty pelargonium

And hollyhocks! These flowers always remind me of my mom’s former garden in Oklahoma. Hollyhocks don’t like our sauna-like humidity, so I’m impressed that Andrew and Jared can grow them.

One of their many, many roses

And more sky blue-and-lavender delphiniums

Thanks for sharing your spring lovelies with me, Andrew and Jared! Readers, if you’d like to see my fall visit to their garden, click here.

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8 responses to “A little cottagey romance”

  1. Andrew says:

    Thank you so much for visiting us on that hot day and for the sweet post, Pam! Always a pleasure and hope we have a good show for you again this Fall

    • Pam/Digging says:

      I know you will, Andrew. Thanks for generously sharing your garden with me!

  2. Chris says:

    I’ve tried and tried with hollyhocks. What’s the trick?

  3. Laura says:

    Hollyhocks, Oh my!!! They’re so lovely and won’t grow where I live. What a charming garden.

  4. Kris P says:

    Beautiful! I wish I had that kind of success with Delphiniums and hollyhocks. I finally got some Delphiniums to survive in my cutting garden but only because it gets more water than the rest of my garden. I’ve repeatedly bombed out with hollyhocks which are a magnet for rust here.

    • Pam/Digging says:

      Sad about the ones that don’t live, but luckily we have plenty of fabulous plants that DO want to live in our gardens, right, Kris? 🙂