November 30, 2025 Last month on my book tour through Houston, my scheduled talk at Houston Botanic Garden was cancelled due to the threat of thunderstorms (which of course didn’t materialize — ...
October 31, 2025 Last week I got a sneak peek of the 5 Austin gardens on the November 8th Garden Conservancy tour. Woo-hoo! I thought I’d miss the tour this year because I’ll be manning a ...
November 03, 2025 Let’s continue with a sneak peek of the November 8th Garden Conservancy tour in Travis County. Today I’ll show you Este Garden. Quick side notes: I’ll be manning a ...
November 04, 2025 Continuing with my sneak peek of the November 8th Garden Conservancy tour in Travis County — today I’ll show you the Belmont Parkway garden. Quick side notes: I’ll be ...
November 05, 2025 Continuing with my sneak peek of the November 8th Garden Conservancy tour in Travis County — today I’ll show you the garden called Artist’s Eclectic Eden. Quick side notes: ...
November 07, 2025 Continuing with my sneak peek of tomorrow’s Garden Conservancy tour in Travis County — just under the wire! — today I’ll show you the Canyon Vista garden. Quick side notes: ...
November 23, 2025 In Houston last month at my sister’s house, I admired the bodacious foliage of her pool garden. Alocasia’s gigantic, elephant-ear leaves flank a handsome, silvery agave in a ...
November 21, 2025 Last month I drove to Nacogdoches to kick off book tour events in East Texas. Dr. Jared Barnes, a horticulture professor at Stephen F. Austin State University, and his wife, ...
April 25, 2025 Spring is when I get invited — or invite myself — into gardens all around Austin. It’s a rush to see as many as I can before summer and the Death Star arrive. Right now though, ...
April 22, 2025 Last week I invited myself to Kay Angermann and Julie Nelson’s utterly charming Katie Bird Farm, their home garden on 3 acres in southwest Austin. I love everything about their ...
April 19, 2025 Located in a (formerly) derelict industrial zone in east Austin, Edgeland House is one of the most written-about residences in town, despite being all but invisible from the ...
March 31, 2025 When it goes, it goes. Ka-boom! An explosion of orange trailing along the coyote fence. ‘Tangerine Beauty’ crossvine is one of my favorite vines for spring color. It’s ...
