Garden Designers Roundtable: Regional Diversity in Design
January 06, 2010Gardening With a Sense of Place Today I join 12 other garden designers across the U.S. in posting on the topic Regional Diversity in Design. The idea of creating gardens with a sense of place is dear to my heart. In A Garden That Says “Howdy” (May 2007), ...
Bloggers' Celebration of Our National Parks: A wrap-up
October 18, 2009 Aspens, Rocky Mountain National Park, September 2006 Garden bloggers love the great outdoors and are an adventurous bunch. That’s what I learned this week while reading about visits we’ve made to national parks, national monuments, and other special places that have been set aside for the enjoyment ...
Bloggers’ Celebration of Our National Parks: A wrap-up
October 18, 2009 Aspens, Rocky Mountain National Park, September 2006 Garden bloggers love the great outdoors and are an adventurous bunch. That’s what I learned this week while reading about visits we’ve made to national parks, national monuments, and other special places that have been set aside for the enjoyment ...
Using stock tanks in the garden
December 12, 2008 Lately an unassuming container made for ranch life has been appearing in creative and stylish urban gardens: the stock tank, or cattle trough. It’s Old Texas meets New Texas, and boy howdy, it works. Warehoused among poultry feed, hog fencing, and deer corn at farm-supply stores like ...
Digging wins three Mousies!
May 13, 2007 I’ve just learned that Digging has won three 2007 Mouse & Trowel Awards: Best Photography, Best Design, and Best North American Garden Blog. Wow!! Thank you, readers! I’m honored by your votes, especially when I reflect on the wonderful blogs that shared the ballot with Digging. To ...
Life and death among the flowers
February 28, 2007 Spider feeding on moth When I walked through the garden this morning, I could smell the faint, spicy scent of the Mexican plum blossoms. Sparrows and wrens sang in the trees, and one sparrow anxiously kept an eye on me as I neared the birdhouse in which ...
Devil in the details
January 17, 2007 Hymenoxys (four-nerve daisy) The icicles are long and dagger-like on the eaves, but they are melting. Drip, drip, drip—we can hear it indoors. When I stepped gingerly into the front garden this morning to poke around, evidence of melting and refreezing overnight was written on the plants ...
Fresh air
September 27, 2006 The front garden’s salvias and lantanas make a crazy quilt of color. Yes, I’m one of those gardeners who mixes pink and orange. And loves it. We’ve enjoyed beautiful late-summer weather this week, with highs in the low nineties and fairly low humidity. Tomorrow promises to be ...
Ornament in the garden
August 07, 2006 A green dragonfly visited my garden this morning. The big-eyed bug let me approach very closely to snap this photo. Perhaps it felt so friendly toward me because I was attracting plenty of mosquitoes for it to eat. The feeling was mutual. Go get ’em, dragonfly! The ...