Lawn-free prairie garden of Native Son’s Danny Bravens
At his home garden, Danny Bravens of Native Son Gardens replaced thirsty turf with low-water, densely planted, native prairie plants.… Read More
Come hear a talk by Plano prairie gardener Michael McDowell in Austin
Join me on 11/14 for a Garden Spark talk by Michael McDowell, better known as @PlanoPrairieGarden on his blog and Instagram.… Read More
Michael’s Plano Prairie Garden in spring
I finally got to visit Michael McDowell’s Plano prairie garden in springtime. Purple coneflowers were stealing the show.… Read More
Prairie wildflower oasis at Native Texas Park in Dallas
In Dallas, I swung by the Bush Native Texas Park before sunset to see the wildflower show I’d been hearing about. I was not disappointed.… Read More
“It’s what was here”: A prairie garden grows near downtown Austin
You wouldn’t expect to find a huge prairie garden so close to downtown Austin that blue-glass skyscrapers peek over the treetops.… Read More
Backyard prairie garden in East Austin
Chris Vincent and Nicolas Webster planted a bursting-with-wildflowers backyard prairie garden, accented with two small crevice gardens.… Read More
Come hear a talk about making a pocket prairie
Garden Spark’s first speaker of Season 7 is John Hart Asher, a prairie-garden evangelist who’ll tell us why and how to make a pocket prairie.… Read More
Native prairie garden replaces half the lawn in the Grosz Garden
A shoulder-high, prairie-style garden makes a graceful swoosh through the sunny backyard of Linda and Phil Grosz in Middleton, Wisconsin. … Read More
Native Texas Park: Rediscovering a lost prairie at George W. Bush Presidential Library
Blackland prairie plants shine at Native Texas Park, a 15-acre prairie surrounding the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas.… Read More