A Texas garden inspired by La Louve in Provence
July 09, 2025 You never know when inspiration will spark in your brain and grab hold. For West Lake Hills gardener Sherry Smith, it happened on vacation in Provence, in the picturesque village ...
Texas natives
Agaves, salvias, and wildflowers going strong
May 22, 2025 Early summer is a good time in the garden, with late wildflowers in bloom and foliage still fresh and green. I’ve mostly been standing under the owl tree lately, but I do walk ...
Owls, lizards, finches, and fox at home in my garden
May 11, 2025 It’s Wild Kingdom in my garden right now. Watching wild creatures make their homes, hunt, and raise their young in the garden hugely motivates my gardening efforts. There’s nothing ...
Lawn-free prairie garden of Native Son’s Danny Bravens
May 07, 2025 This spring, Danny Bravens, owner of Native Son Gardens, gave a Garden Spark presentation about replacing traditional thirsty turf with low-water, densely planted, native prairie ...
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 ...
Not feeling cross about crossvine in bloom, and more!
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 ...
Read This: The Texas Native Plant Primer
April 09, 2025 Texans love native plants. Our state flower is the beloved bluebonnet, a Texas native wildflower. Our official state botanic garden is the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, ...
Hopping over to Ruthie’s hilltop garden
April 14, 2025 Last week, I hopped over to Ruthie Burrus’s garden in the Rollingwood neighborhood for a spring visit. Ruthie kindly opened her garden to me and my out-of-town guest Lisa Negri ...
Wildflower safari east to Independence
April 13, 2025 The wildflower reporters I follow — and my own eyes — say this is a poor year for Texas bluebonnets and other spring wildflowers, especially from Austin west into the Hill ...
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