Austin garden featured in Great Gardens magazine

February 22, 2007


Yesterday I opened Great Gardens (Summer 2007), a softcover “picture book” published by Fine Gardening magazine, and stumbled upon a photo essay about James David’s Austin garden. This gorgeous garden was open to the public last October during the Austin Open Days tour, sponsored by the Garden Conservancy. I was an early-bird visitor to the David garden, where I was blown away by its ambitious design, its playfulness, the beauty and variety of the plants, and lovely, structural stonework.
If you missed seeing this garden in person, check it out in Great Gardens or here at Digging. Our photos are similar, but in the magazine you’ll get fresh perspectives on the garden’s design.

1st garden--2007, Magazines

0 responses to “Austin garden featured in Great Gardens magazine”

  1. Yolanda Elizabet says:
    February 23, 2007 at 6:31 AM

    Thanks for the gardentour. It was lovely. Very different from what we have here in NW Europe.
    I’m glad that you have such a wonderful rose nursery not all that far away from you. I adore roses so I can relate to you spending a whole day there.
    BTW I’ve linked with you too. 🙂
    Thank you! —Pam

  2. Kim says:
    February 25, 2007 at 9:36 AM

    Wow… I followed the link you provided, and that’s a great garden. I didn’t appreciate the “scroll garden” as much when I saw it in the magazine, but within the larger garden context it works much better for me somehow.
    I had to pick up that magazine and leaf through it last night at Barnes & Noble, too, by the way. The colors in that cover shot garden made me drool!
    Yes, the David garden is amazing. And I’m so disappointed not to get to see it again this year; the Open Days Austin tour is not happening this year.
    I enjoyed that whole issue, Kim. Quite a lot of nice ideas in there, not to mention eye candy. —Pam