April 14, 2024 After the Texas mountain laurels and plums have shed their fragrant blossoms, after the bluebells and other early wildflowers have gone to messy seed, but before the…
Category: Gardening
Look for my article in Outdoor Living mag, on sale now
April 12, 2024 The next time you’re in the checkout line at the grocery store or browsing magazines at your favorite newsstand, look up Outdoor life magazine and my article…
How to Grow a Shaving Brush Tree: Pseudobombax Ellipticum
The growing interest in unique and exotic plants has captured the attention of many homeowners. For those living in USDA hardiness zones 9b through 11, the shaving brush tree (Pseudobombax…
A curbside garden for pollinators and year-round interest
06 April 2024 Yellow sulfur butterflies flew among the zaxmenia (Wedelia hispida) flowers last night in this curbside garden in Austin’s Tarrytown neighborhood. Yellow on yellow! And the bees joined…
Bluebonnets in the neighborhood – Digging
April 4, 2024 While walking around the neighborhood last week, I noticed a huge pile of blue hats at a Bevo-loving neighbor’s house. Ka-pow! A few rosy bluebonnets mixed in…
Spring is in full swing in my garden
03 April 2024 What a great time of year this is to garden in Central Texas. The days were pleasant, but not hot. Humidity is low. We had a little…
Poppies appear on wild seed farms
01 April 2024 On my wildflower drive up the Willow City Loop last week, I stopped at Wildflower Seed Farms in Fredericksburg, Texas to check out their planted wildflower fields.…
check out my recent talk at the scott arboretum
WWHEN I LEARNED I would be receiving the Scott Medal from the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, the arboretum’s director explained how the March 10 awards ceremony would…
Paul Bangay – garden design inspiration and new book – The Middle-Sized Garden
March 30, 2024 Posted in: Garden style and life Paul Bangay is a top international garden designer and has designed gardens all over the world. And he described his own…
Willow City Loop delights with Texas wildflowers
March 29, 2024 I headed west to the Hill Country on Wednesday for a THIRD wildflower safari, cruising the Willow City Loop between Fredericksburg and Llano. This famously scenic, 13-mile…