Dallas Open Days Tour 2012: Middleton Farm Garden
May 11, 2012 My second stop on the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days tour last weekend was the Middleton Farm Garden, a contemporary home with homesteading flair in suburban north Dallas. Here’s the official description: A suburban oasis loosely composed as three distinct aspects. A casual, manicured space of green lawn, ...
Support Your Independent Nursery Month: The Great Outdoors
October 19, 2011It’s Support Your Independent Nursery month! Each Wednesday in October I’m posting about one of my favorite independent garden centers in the Austin area. Today I’m shining a spotlight on The Great Outdoors, located just south of the hip strip known as SoCo on South Congress Avenue. (This ...
Dallas Open Days Tour 2011: Blue Lotus Garden
May 23, 2011 As if there weren’t enough garden tours in Austin this spring, I drove up to Dallas on May 21st for that city’s Open Days tour benefiting the Garden Conservancy, accompanied by my daughter. Undaunted by the 3-hour drive, we arrived first at the exotically named Blue Lotus ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2011: Sheryl Williams garden
May 13, 2011 I was particularly interested to see Sheryl Williams’s garden during our sneak peek on Tuesday because she’s a fairly new Austin garden blogger, and, well, y’all know how I love our garden-blogging group. I’d met Sheryl before, but this was my first time to see her garden ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2011: Rebecca Matthews garden
May 11, 2011 Whew, I just finished up a whirlwind of posting about last weekend’s Gardens on Tour 2011, and now I’m giving you a sneak peek into this Saturday’s Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2011, sponsored by the Travis County Master Gardeners Association. Hang onto your hats, and let’s go! ...
Austin Open Days Tour 2010: David-Peese garden
October 22, 2010 Like a contemporary fairy-tale cottage, the home of James David and Gary Peese is glimpsed through the embrace of the surrounding garden: a fascinating, wow-inducing, richly planted—and richly hardscaped—yet intimate and surprisingly unpretentious garden. This was my final stop on last Saturday’s Open Days garden tour. James ...
Who me? Chicken?
October 01, 2010 Having a little fun in the garden today. I hope you are too. All material © 2006-2010 by Pam Penick for Digging. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited ...
Nursery tour: The Great Outdoors
August 21, 2010 For a nursery located within spitting distance of downtown, on South Congress Avenue, The Great Outdoors is surprisingly large, which befits a place featuring a nearly life-size topiary elephant as its mascot and another on its sign. From the street you glimpse a colorful mural, a screen ...
Inside Austin Gardens Tour 2009: Cheryl Goveia's garden
October 24, 2009 The fall Travis County Master Gardeners tour today featured six gardens that fit the theme of “Sustainable Gardening for Urban Wildlife.” Three of them are the creations of Austin garden bloggers. Each one offered something unique and personal. But by far the most colorful and fun-loving garden ...
Crazy for crossvine
March 21, 2007 Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the crossvine, of course. Two days after I posted a photo of this crossvine in bud, it’s gloriously in full bloom. The coral-orange trumpets blaze at me whenever I glance out my kitchen window into the back ...
Nursery tour: Natural Gardener
November 05, 2006 In the spirit of my recent Open Days tour, I took my camera along during an afternoon trip to Natural Gardener nursery for a pot of oxalis. It was a simple enough errand, and the cool, gray skies made a tour of the nursery’s gardens very appealing ...
Chickens and parakeets
June 26, 2006 Aviary at Barton Springs Nursery, Austin M. Sinclair Stevens over at Zanthan Gardens was just asking what everyone’s favorite nursery hangouts are. Like Stevens, I go to Barton Springs Nursery most often, even though a perfectly decent nursery, the newly updated Shoal Creek Nursery, is literally right ...
