Capulin Volcano’s epic views on the crater rim
August 08, 2025 Why drive past a volcano when you can stop and climb that volcano? Heck, yes! So a few weeks ago, instead of cruising past Capulin Volcano National Monument, located in ...
Cactus
Ryan Harter’s flowery xeric garden in Colorado, part 1
July 28, 2025 Meeting other gardeners and seeing their gardens is one of the joys of traveling for me. On a recent trip up to Colorado, I stopped in Castle Rock, 30 miles south of Denver, to ...
Ryan Harter’s backyard xeric garden, part 2
July 30, 2025 In my last post, I shared a tour of Ryan (@thexericgarden) and Allison Harter’s front-yard garden. Located in Castle Rock, Colorado, the garden features waterwise flowering ...
Diving back into Lori’s stock-tank pond garden
July 24, 2025 A month ago I took visiting friends to see Lori Daul‘s South Austin garden dripping with fountains, water bowls, and stock-tank ponds. What could be more refreshing on a hot ...
Texas crevice garden in summer bloom
July 16, 2025 I made a return visit to Coleson Bruce’s front-yard crevice garden a few weeks ago and found it bristling and blooming and fabulous as always. Clusters of beaked yucca (Yucca ...
Upcycled succulent planters at Lou’s Eastside
July 07, 2025 After an art exhibition in East Austin, we joined friends for burgers on the covered patio at Lou’s Eastside. A collection of upcycled containers filled with cactus, succulents, ...
Shopping at Ceremony and Shelter in Wimberley
June 30, 2025 A few weeks ago, while celebrating Mom’s birthday in Wimberley, Texas, we all made a trip into town to visit Ceremony Botanical Studio on the main square. This place is pure eye ...
Wildflowers while climbing Old Baldy in Wimberley
June 25, 2025 In early June my family met up in Wimberley, Texas, to celebrate Mom’s birthday. One morning we got up early and drove to Old Baldy Park to climb that rocky peak and see what we ...
Garden scenes before the Memphis Fling
June 05, 2025 Ghost plant I’m off to Memphis for the Garden Fling, an annual meetup of people who “garden” on social media! I’ve attended every Fling since it began in Austin in 2008, and I’m ...
Garden flowers as summer arrives
May 19, 2025 My eyes have been trained on the trees lately, as I scan for our screech owl family at all hours. But the garden catches my eye too as it transitions to early summer flowering. ...
Tank ponds and spring blooms in Lori’s garden
May 02, 2025 In mid-April I popped over to my friend Lori Daul‘s garden in South Austin, bringing with me a small posse of visiting garden writers and editors. Any excuse for another visit to ...
Athena the great horned owl nesting again at the Wildflower Center
April 28, 2025 A great horned owl has been nesting at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center for 15 years, laying usually two eggs each spring in a planter niche high on a wall, sheltered by a ...
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