I finally got to visit Michael McDowell’s Plano prairie garden in springtime. Purple coneflowers were stealing the show …

Suzy Renz’s Dallas garden offers happy curb appeal. Potted plants and a found-art sculpture draw you toward the front porch …

My garden is a nursery for baby deer in May. I’ll admit the fawns are awfully cute whenever I discover one “hidden” in the grasses …

Garden Spark, my speaker series on garden design and ecology, will return for its 8th season of in-person talks in Austin this fall …

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 …

At Vivero Growers nursery, I oohed and aahed over big, beautiful containers planted as eye-catching showpieces …

Deborah Hornickel’s tiny bungalow lives larger by extending her living space outdoors with a pear allee and other architectural features …

Tanglewild is a botanical fantasia unlike any other garden in Austin, with palms, bananas, cannas, and daylilies galore …

Flowers are blooming and fawns are appearing in the garden. It’s the transition from spring to summer, a time of abundance …

A colorful patch of wildflowers greeted me in Teresa Garcia’s garden. Edibles, a pond garden, chickens, bees, and a tortoise thrive here too …

Julie and Kay built their charming hobby farm and garden over the past 12 years, naming it Katie Bird Farm after a beloved grandmother …

Colleen mourned her old garden for a while. Then she realized she didn’t mind having a smaller yard. It was, in fact, exactly what she wanted …

At Arnosky Family Farms, a flower grower in Blanco, flowers are grown to sell at HEB. They’re also offered in the barn’s self-serve market …

To make your yard appealing to birds, with a variety of food and nesting places, check out new book Bird-Friendly Gardening by Jen McGuinness …