Linda’s live oak courtyard garden in San Antonio
Linda Peterson’s San Antonio garden is one of my favorites in all of Texas, and is home to several charismatic live oaks.… Read More
Cynthia Deegan’s free-spirited, collected home and garden
The mossy green doors of Cynthia’s milagro-spangled gate open to reveal a soulful garden of artistic vignettes created from thrifted treasures.… Read More
A little Palm Springs, a little New Orleans, all Texas in the garden of Curt Arnette
May 16, 2018 I’ve been after my friend Curt Arnette, landscape-architect owner of Sitio Design, to open his personal garden on tour for years. But because he likes to change things up at home (plus being busy with his work … Read More
Waterwise outside, oasis inside a walled Sonoma garden
January 25, 2018 Last August a family road trip took me through Sonoma, California, where I had the pleasure of seeing a garden I was writing about for Garden Design magazine. The owner, Marilyn Coon Stocke, had generously extended an … Read More
Waterwise drama in Lakemoore Drive Garden: Austin Open Days Tour 2017
November 20, 2017 Continuing my coverage of the November 4th Open Days tour, today I give you the Lakemoore Drive Garden. Regular readers may recognize this garden as one I blogged about, rapturously, in 2013. The outer garden, a sun-loving … Read More
Organic Mechanics Garden, an apartment dweller’s refuge: San Francisco Garden Bloggers Fling
July 15, 2013 Our second stop on the first day of the Garden Bloggers Fling in San Francisco seemed inauspicious: a security door into a tall apartment building on the edge of the Tenderloin, a downtown residential neighborhood with a … Read More
My sister's Houston garden
A tiny courtyard garden in Houston shows how much you can do with a long, skinny space.… Read More