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Support Your Independent Nursery: Hill Country Water Gardens & Nursery GIVEAWAY
October 15, 2012 Each week in October, which is Support Your Independent Nursery Month, I am featuring one of my favorite Austin-area nurseries here at Digging. To make things even more interesting, I’m also hosting a giveaway every week—one from each nursery! This week I’m shining a spotlight on Hill …
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Carolyn and Michael Williams Garden
October 14, 2012 The final garden I’ll show you on this sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners, is an inviting, lovely garden with a picture-perfect garden house, set in the hills above Lake Austin. This flagstone-and-gravel path leads along the …
Winner of the Barton Springs Nursery Giveaway
October 14, 2012 Last week I posted about Barton Springs Nursery, one of my favorite Austin-area nurseries, as part of Support Your Independent Nursery Month, and I ran a giveaway for their Fall Power Pack, a package worth $125, donated by the good folks at BSN. Last night was the …
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Jennifer and David Phillips Garden
October 13, 2012 One of the gardens on our sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners, was a newly constructed 5-star green home on a caliche-rugged property in West Austin. The design of the house was appealing (one blogger pointed out …
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Renee Studebaker Garden
October 12, 2012 On our sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners, the Austin garden bloggers got to visit the garden of one of our own: Renee Studebaker, formerly blogging for the Austin American-Stateman at Renee’s Roots and now at Renee’s …
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Ann and Robin Matthews Garden
October 11, 2012 I’m continuing my sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners. In my last post I showed you Donnis Doyle’s colorful, whimsical garden. This garden belongs to her next-door neighbors, Ann and Robin Matthews, and they’ve been friends and …
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2012: Donnis Doyle Garden
October 10, 2012 The Austin garden bloggers recently got a sneak preview of the upcoming Inside Austin Gardens Tour, hosted by the Travis County Master Gardeners. We visited 5 gardens, and I hope to be able to show them all to you before the tour date on October 20th. I’ll …
Drab fall? Not in this colorful streetside garden
October 09, 2012 Cool weather might make some people think of brown leaves and shriveling plants, but not me. October is, I think, the best garden season—both for planting and photographing—in central Texas. Certainly my streetside garden is fuller and more flowery than at any other time of year. The …
Support Your Independent Nursery: Barton Springs Nursery GIVEAWAY
October 08, 2012 Each week in October, which is Support Your Independent Nursery Month, I am featuring one of my favorite Austin-area nurseries here at Digging. To make things even more interesting, I’m also hosting a giveaway every week—one from each nursery! This week I’m shining a spotlight on Barton …
Winner of the Natural Gardener Giveaway
October 07, 2012The Natural Gardener is a wonderful local nursery.Last week I posted about the Natural Gardener, one of my favorite Austin-area nurseries, as part of Support Your Independent Nursery Month, and I ran a giveaway for a $25 gift certificate donated by the good folks at the Natural Gardener …
Front yard garden in full fall bloom
October 02, 2012 Every time I arrive at home, slowing to pull into my driveway, I get to enjoy this. Yep, this is my neighbor Donna’s streetside garden that she let me design for her earlier this year. And now it’s all filled in and blooming like crazy. Here’s how …
Support Your Independent Nursery: The Natural Gardener GIVEAWAY
October 01, 2012Buddha says, Support your local nurseries. Each week in October, which is Support Your Independent Nursery Month, I am featuring one of my favorite Austin-area nurseries here at Digging. To make things even more interesting, I’m also hosting a giveaway every week—one from each nursery! This week I’m …
October is Support Your Independent Nursery Month, with giveaways!
September 29, 2012Support your local nurseries, y’all! Do you love your local nurseries? Do you love giveaways? Do you live in the Austin area? If so you’re in luck because October is Support Your Independent Nursery Month, and I’m partnering with four great Austin-area nurseries for giveaways throughout the month …
Digging’s new look debuts
September 28, 2012 It’s time for the big reveal! After 6 years, Digging needed a fresh look and improved navigation, and I got it with the help of Kyla at Freckled Nest Design, a blog-design studio based in Winnipeg (way up in Canada, folks). If you’re reading this in your …
