Read This: Bird-Friendly Gardening
To make your yard appealing to birds, with a variety of food and nesting places, check out new book Bird-Friendly Gardening by Jen McGuinness.… Read More
Read This: The Lost Words, a spell book to bring nature back to life
The Lost Words is for lovers of language and nature, with a clever hook: read the “spells” to bring lost creatures back into our world.… Read More
Read This: Private Gardens of the Pacific Northwest
Private Gardens of the Pacific Northwest features 20 lush, colorful, and artistically creative gardens from coastal Oregon and Washington.… Read More
Read This: Wildflowers of Texas
An advance guard of bluebonnets scattered across the grassy shoulder of MoPac at Bee Cave Road augurs blue battalions soon to arrive. When they do, green roadsides will surrender and turn sky-blue, touching off the annual frenzy of bluebonnet peeping and photo ops. Parents will crouch before children plopped in their Sunday best among the flowers, crooning for a smile.… Read More
Gardening book roundup for holiday gift ideas
December 08, 2018 Wondering what to get your garden-loving friend or family member (or yourself) for the holidays? Here’s a roundup of recent books with something for everyone, whether their interest leans more to ornamental design, edibles, or ecology. Dreamscapes: … Read More
Book Review: Dry Gardens: High Style for Low Water Gardens
November 03, 2018 Not so long ago, a book about dry gardens in the U.S. would have featured cactus and rocks. Dry stuff indeed, except for the cactus aficionado. Over the past couple of decades, as drought and water shortages … Read More
Read This: Desert Gardens of Steve Martino
October 12, 2018 Weeds and walls. That’s how Phoenix landscape architect and native son Steve Martino describes his life’s work of designing gardens in the Arizona desert. Steve has a knack for simplifying the language of design and explaining how … Read More