Fields awash in Texas bluebonnets and other wildflowers
It’s bluebonnet season in Texas. Along the back roads of tiny Industry, TX, I found farmsteads in rolling fields of denim blue.… Read More
Heart of stone: Tait Moring’s garden
Tait Moring’s garden stands out for its stonework and a collection of castoffs from clients, which Tait assembles into artful vignettes.… Read More
Wildflower-palooza at Ruthie Burrus Garden, part 1
Ruthie Burrus told me the wildflowers were in full bloom — come see. My favorite words. I dropped everything and headed over.… Read More
Wildflower Center abloom in early April
Flowers abloom, including Texas bluebonnets, at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center gardens in early April.… Read More
Fields of bluebonnet dreams
It’s bluebonnet season in Texas! While the consensus is that wildflowers are paltry this spring because of drought, even a poor bluebonnet year is a good year. … Read More
Wild bighorn sheep and wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains
Bighorn sheep bounded across the road and climbed the mountainside as we neared the Continental Divide. All that and wildflowers too!… Read More
Modern ranch garden embraces water collection and wildflowers in New Braunfels
Cody and Michelle Koehler made a contemporary ranch garden around their New Braunfels home, complete with water collection and wildflowers.… Read More
Bluebonnet safari in Round Top and Brenham
I cruised the back roads of Round Top and Brenham on Tuesday, hunting bluebonnets. Right away I found several good fields of blue.… Read More
Wildflowers and birding at Montaña de Oro State Park
Wildflowers galore and great bird-watching amid the chaparral at Montana de Oro park in California, 30 minutes west of San Luis Obispo.… Read More
Wildflower fiesta at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
The Wildflower Center reopened to members last weekend, and the late spring wildflowers like purple coneflower, firewheel, and thistle are looking glorious.… Read More
April visit to Antique Rose Emporium garden
An early April stroll through the gardens of The Antique Rose Emporium, where fuchsia pennants of Byzantine gladiolus were flying.… Read More
Wildflowers for an Easter quarantine
During this quarantined Easter, here’s a glimpse of spring loveliness from past years’ wildflower drives to brighten your day.… Read More
Cat’s pollinator garden with a canyon view
Three years ago my friend Cat Jones and her husband, newly empty nesters, sold their house and Cat’s lovely garden and moved to a different home in their Steiner Ranch neighborhood, not to downsize but — fellow gardeners, can you relate? — to upsize their lot. A canyon view in the backyard, perfect for summer sunset-watching, sold them on the house. Out front, Cat has been steadily turning the standard lawn with foundation shrubs into a beautiful pollinator garden with a low-profile evergreen backbone.… Read More
Hill Country bluebonnet drive
Bluebonnets peak a little later in the Hill Country than in Austin and San Antonio. The superbloom I photographed south of San Antonio two weeks ago whetted my appetite for more, and since Austin’s roadside ‘bonnets have faded, I headed into the Hill Country on Wednesday. … Read More