October blooms brighten my garden
October! It’s the best month of the year, providing sweet relief from a Texas summer with cooler weather and rain and bringing the garden back to life.… Read More
Spikes and springtime
Springtime musings on flower spikes, wounded warrior plants, a bottle tree, and yuccas in my Austin garden.… Read More
Garden stirrings
February 27, 2023The freeze-damaged aloes (Aloe maculata) may have lost most of their fleshy arms, but check this out: they’re sending up flower spikes for spring anyway. Go, aloes, go! Here’s another one with just a couple “limbs,” but look … Read More
Late-winter flora and fauna on my 17th blogiversary
Today is Digging’s blogiversary. I’ve been documenting my garden(s) — and gardens across the country, and beyond — for 17 years now. … Read More
Waterwise beauty and metal animal safari in Linda Peterson’s San Antonio garden
December 05, 2018 An invitation to Linda Peterson’s garden in San Antonio proved too tempting a treat to resist on the day before Halloween. I arrived in San Antonio in time to tour the terrific new culinary and adventure gardens … Read More
New leaves coming up, old leaves coming down
March 16, 2018 Spring looks a lot like fall in my garden, as this photo shows: fresh green leaves surrounded by brown live oak leaves. Live oaks stay green all winter, like an evergreen tree, but come spring they do … Read More
Asheville Garden Bloggers Fling: Christopher Mello’s garden has the blues
May 30, 2012 Blue bottles on blue trees Blue chairs Blue flying baby heads Blue walls Blue rocks And ‘Blue Pearl’ poppies, the bluer ones in this group—a new cultivar selected by Christopher Mello, who welcomed nearly 90 garden bloggers … Read More