Colorado gardeners are crazy for crevice gardens, and no wonder. When the Rocky Mountains peek over your back fence, creating a miniature mountain range in your yard makes perfect sense. Alpine plants that thrive at high altitude and require excellent drainage love these rocky niches …

From the street, cottage garden favorites greeted us. Owner Jan Devore planted the small front garden with Rosa glauca and purple irises — nearly black ones adding drama — framed by a backdrop of soft pines and weathered wood siding …

At Denver Garden Bloggers Fling, I toured The Gardens on Spring Creek in Fort Collins. This time I explored the reopened rock garden and the brand-new Undaunted Garden …

Just two hours away by plane but a mile high in altitude, Denver is a world away from subtropical Austin thanks to its short growing season (freezes can occur as late as June and as early as September), low humidity (ahhh!), and aridity (just 15 inches of annual rainfall) …

Night-blooming datura greeted me when the sun went down. As dusk fell, it unfurled platter-sized, white blossoms with a lemony fragrance. Moths and other night pollinators, here’s your welcome mat …

Many would-be gardeners, and even gardeners with plenty of experience, feel overwhelmed by the idea of making a design for their yard. Those who come to gardening through a passion for plants may find themselves especially puzzled by how to bring their collection together cohesively and creatively …

When the concrete runways and asphalt parking lots were jackhammered out, acres of blackland prairie soil saw the sun for the first time in decades. What an opportunity! Developers partnered with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to plant 32 acres with native Texas prairie plants, creating the Southwest Greenway …

June 09, 2019 Austin’s excellent mural scene just got a big boost with the addition of Josef Kristofoletti‘s Tau Ceti. The spectacular, spectrum-based mural by the Austin muralist fills a formerly blank corner of a bland parking garage at Brazos and 2nd Street, creating a new hotspot for selfie snapping …

Step through the gate into Lucinda Hutson’s side garden, and a seashell wreath hints at what’s to come: mermaids in an under-the-sea garden …

Branch Park, the newest public park in the Mueller neighborhood, opened recently, and I swung by one afternoon to take a look. The play spaces (including a waterscape “river”, play airplane, and conical climbing obstacles) and round playing field are terrific additions to the other parks at Mueller, some of …

Stepping onto our front porch the other day, we spotted a shy visitor who wasn’t quite prepared to come all the way to the front door, although she was close. A doe was nosing around in the sedge lawnette, seemingly noshing on the cut “hay” from its recent trim-by-weed-whacker (the …

An invitation to tea — the real deal, with scones, clotted cream, cucumber sandwiches, lemon tarts, and champagne — was treat enough to entice me to the San Antonio home of two sisters I’ve gotten to know through a friendship with their mother. But when I arrived at their house, …

Summer is here in Texas, and the heat is on, with temps in the 90s all this week. While I’ll miss cooler temps, the collection of cacti on the deck loves it, blooming in unison for the second time this month …

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 …