Garden tours 2012

April 05, 2012 My next stop on the Houston Open Days tour on March 24 was the classically elegant Tudor Garden, located in the Broadacres Historic District. To my mind, the property’s best asset is the view of a double line of mature live oaks marching down the center median ...

April 04, 2012 My next stop on the Houston Open Days tour on March 24 was the clean-lined Lofgren-Bayer Garden, also located in the close-in Montrose neighborhood. Pictured above is a lovely dining patio in the rear garden. The official description of the garden: A stately live oak dominates this ...

April 03, 2012 My next stop on the Houston Open Days tour on March 24 was the classic, walled J. Green Garden, located in the Montrose neighborhood. The official description: This urban garden in Montrose is a lovely counterpoint to the house owned by well-known Houston interior designer Jon Green, ...

April 02, 2012 The Garden Conservancy’s 2012 Open Days program opened on March 24 in Houston, a 3-hour drive east of Austin. Diana of Sharing Nature’s Garden and I made a day trip of it and started our tour at the Cortlandt Street Garden. Here’s the official description: Located in ...

March 30, 2012 Houston, where are your creative, cutting-edge gardens? You’ve got traditional estate gardening down: azaleas, boxwood hedges, enormous lawns, extensive terracing, the whole bit. But where are your native gardens, your contemporary gardens, and most important, your gardeners’ gardens? Last weekend I traveled to Houston for the Garden ...