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January 14, 2019 It’s a treat to open the mailbox in the middle of winter and find a spring-y looking magazine inside. The Early Spring 2019 issue of Country Gardens arrived over the weekend, and even more exciting for me, I’m one of the issue’s contributors! My article is called ...

October 29, 2018 Are you a member of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center? If so, when their member magazine Wildflower arrives in your mailbox, look for my article “Heavenly Hellstrips” and photo illustration. “Heavenly Hellstrips” is about using native plants to liven up streetside verges, medians, hellstrips — i.e., ...

August 15, 2018 For those of us who appreciate in-depth articles about gardens, design, plants, and artisans, plus gorgeous garden photography, today’s news that Garden Design‘s print magazine is ceasing production (again) is depressing news indeed. Those of us who wrote and photographed for the magazine under Thad Orr’s excellent ...

June 28, 2017 Digging has been a little quiet for the past week because I was away at the Capital Region Garden Bloggers Fling, touring public and private gardens in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and northern Virginia. But on the home front, I’ve been interviewed by writers at two local magazines, ...

March 20, 2017 Hello! As I turned to page 107 while reading the current issue of Country Gardens (Spring 2017), I saw a screenshot of my blog. What’s this? It turns out Digging is one of Tucson garden designer and author Scott Calhoun‘s favorite blogs for the Southwest. Thanks so ...

December 07, 2016 Yay, my new book has gotten a couple of great reviews just in time for holiday shopping season — and library-stocking season, apparently. Library Journal has named The Water-Saving Garden as “essential” for libraries building their collection of books about current gardening trends. Being water-wise in the ...

December 07, 2016 Yay, my new book has gotten a couple of great reviews just in time for holiday shopping season — and library-stocking season, apparently. Library Journal has named The Water-Saving Garden as “essential” for libraries building their collection of books about current gardening trends. Being water-wise in the ...

October 13, 2016 It’s back-to-the-garden time in Texas, and it’s also garden-talk season! I’m making a few appearances around Texas this fall (see below), and you can also catch me this weekend on Austin’s own Central Texas Gardener TV show. Last fall, right before my garden was on tour, CTG ...

October 13, 2016 It’s back-to-the-garden time in Texas, and it’s also garden-talk season! I’m making a few appearances around Texas this fall (see below), and you can also catch me this weekend on Austin’s own Central Texas Gardener TV show. Last fall, right before my garden was on tour, CTG ...

September 24, 2016 The illustrious British gardening magazine Gardens Illustrated gave The Water-Saving Garden a nice mention in its September 2016 issue! “…without costing the earth” — I love that bit of Brit-speak. Thank you, Gardens Illustrated! I welcome your comments; please scroll to the end of this post to ...

September 17, 2016 Have you gotten the new issue of Garden Design magazine (Autumn 2016)? I’m pleased to say I have an article in it: a profile of Ted Flato of the visionary architectural firm Lake Flato and a 16-page spread of their gorgeous residential projects, each of which is ...

June 19, 2016 What a treat to have two treasured magazines arrive in the mailbox, one containing an article I’ve been working on, the other with a nice mention of my new book! In the July 2016 issue, Southern Living garden editor Steve “Grumpy Gardener” Bender recommends my book The ...

June 03, 2016 Seeing a positive review of my new book, The Water-Saving Garden, makes me so happy. After all, selling a book takes such a different skill set than writing it, and so much material competes for our limited reading time. Reviews — whether by editors in magazines and ...

May 24, 2016 It’s an exciting day when you see that Ken Druse, a superstar in the garden-writing world, has reviewed your book. I picked up the the current issue of Country Gardens magazine (Summer 2016) at Barnes & Noble over the weekend… …and was thrilled to discover my book ...

May 24, 2016 It’s an exciting day when you see that Ken Druse, a superstar in the garden-writing world, has reviewed your book. I picked up the the current issue of Country Gardens magazine (Summer 2016) at Barnes & Noble over the weekend… …and was thrilled to discover my book ...

April 25, 2016 “When Spotlight won Best Picture,” I asked the Boston Globe reporter the day after the Oscars, “did you celebrate?” Heather Ciras was interviewing me for a non-investigative story (thank goodness) about gardening and blogging. The night before, I’d been happy to see my favorite movie of 2015 ...