Plant trials with style at Redenta’s Landscape Design office garden
A modern, plant-rich aesthetic informs the design of the office garden for Redenta’s Landscape Design in Fort Worth. Here’s my tour.… Read More
A modern, plant-rich aesthetic informs the design of the office garden for Redenta’s Landscape Design in Fort Worth. Here’s my tour.… Read More
I stopped at The Antique Rose Emporium, ostensibly to search for a replacement rose, but really to check out the gardens.… Read More
The yellow spider lilies are up 3 weeks earlier than last year, perhaps due to our cooler than usual early fall, and I am here for it. … Read More
Amy told me about her dream of having a garden with a screened gazebo where she could sit and look at the plants all around her.… Read More
It’s oxblood lily time, baby! That excitement you hear is my delight over the early and unexpected end to Texas’s interminable summer. Late last week, two inches of rain and a welcome drop in temperatures made it feel like early October rather than early September. As soon as the rain ended, up popped the crimson trumpets of oxblood lily.… Read More
My husband, David, is not a gardener. But it turns out he has definite opinions about which plants he likes. Here are his top ten.… Read More
Like a starfish clinging to a rock, this soap aloe (Aloe maculata) I stuck in a pie-pan planter has grown more beautifully than I expected. It seems to love the crevice life. … Read More
Our elevated back deck offers a nice overhead view of the Circle Garden. But as I recently discovered, when you climb a stepladder on the deck, you can get almost the whole garden in the frame, including the new rose and salvia planting at the base of the deck.… Read More
Midsummer has never been my favorite season in the garden. It’s hot and humid. Mosquitoes are fierce. And yet this summer, perhaps because I’m spending more time at home and in my own garden than usual, I’m also appreciating it more. Here’s what’s caught my eye lately on strolls around the garden. … Read More
Whack, whack! Even the spring-revamped Circle Garden got a major cut-back. It was time to cut everything back and open up the garden again.… Read More
Garden Bloggers Fling, the 13th annual meet-up of garden bloggers from across North America and beyond, was to have been held this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. The coronavirus scuttled that party.… Read More
While photographing the owls a few evenings ago, I pointed my lens at the Circle Garden for the umpteenth time. This view makes me so happy!… Read More
Driving through Bouldin and Zilker neighborhoods in South Austin, I cruise slowly to check out the diverse styles of architecture among the many, many remodeled homes. It’s just as interesting to see what people have chosen to plant in their front yards. Many have opted out of the traditional lawn in favor of waterwise alternatives, like a simple meadow of Mexican feathergrass.… Read More
Whacking — it’s what I do in summer as plants grow bushy or tall or lean where they shouldn’t. Let’s start with the Verbena bonariensis.… Read More