September 24, 2012


Digging is for anyone who loves gardens, photos of beautiful plants, a sense of connectedness with nature, real-life plant info, design insights, how-to gardening tips, and virtual garden tours. Dirt-under-the-nails types and armchair gardeners alike will find plenty to enjoy here.

To familiarize yourself with my blog...

Take a tour of my regular series, including Plant This and Foliage Follow-Up.

Want to get to know me better?

Read Meet Pam, Who I Am, and my philosophical musings about gardening.

Are you curious about the quirks and anything-goes personality of Austin?

Check out my Keep Austin Weird posts and a post I wrote about living in Austin. I’ve also posted tours of a number of independent local nurseries, and I invite you to scope out Drive-By Gardens with me.

Do you love to visit gardens when you travel?

So do I! Click for tours of Botanical/Public Gardens and look for my state-by-state and international tours at the top of the home page under Regional Garden Tours. These include private and public garden visits as well as national parks and other sightseeing from my travels. Or just read my Travel posts for plenty of garden visits.

Are you interested in monthly or annual blogging topics that I’ve started here at Digging?

Check ‘em out: Foliage Follow-Up, Support Your Independent Nursery Month, and Bloggers’ Celebration of Our National Parks.

Want my recommendations?

For helpful information, like my blogroll, great nurseries, book reviews and recommendations, and plants I’m growing.

Follow me on other social media

Pam Penick - Digging, Instagram, Waterwise Gardening Facebook Group, Lawn Gone FB page, and The Water-Saving Garden FB page.

Want to hear talks by top designers and garden authors from Texas and beyond?

So do I! That's why I started Garden Spark. It's a speaker series featuring 3 to 4 talks each year by insightful designers, writers, and speakers in the field of garden design. Click for information about joining my mailing list for talk notifications. Seating is limited, but I give advance notice to those on my mailing list.

Would you like to learn more about the garden blogging community?

Garden Bloggers Fling, an annual meetup of garden bloggers from across North America and beyond, started right here in Austin in 2008. I headed up the planning team for the inaugural event, which included garden tours, nursery visit, speaker, blogging discussions, group dinner, prize giveaways, and fun happy hour in my garden. In 2018 I helped bring the Fling back to Austin for its 10th anniversary! If you're a garden blogger, click here for info about attending future Flings.

Austin's own garden blogging community holds regular get-togethers too. You’ll find posts about some of our field trips under Garden Blogging.

Whew! That’s enough to get you going. I hope you enjoy your visit to Digging and come back again soon!