ROCK ROSE

This morning there was frost on the roof and the sheets covering the tomatoes and beans. Hopefully it wasn't enough to kill the plants o...

When the weatherman says there is a possibility of a frost in the hill country I take note. Although we are only considered to be at the edg...

It is nice to have one or two plants in the landscape that demand little attention and the Knockout rose is one such plant. This single vari...

It's that time of year again when the turkeys come out of hiding and mingle with other wildlife in the garden. This was the tail end of ...

What more could one ask for than a pot that plants itself. This pot has been sitting in the corner of the vegetable garden for months. I rem...

October is usually a very colorful month of the year in Austin, as long as there is enough rain to keep the plants going through the summer....

I have decided this is about as close as I will get to ever writing a diary. Maybe sometime in the future a descendent will be a gardener an...

Did you get your gardening stimulus package this week? I did. One of the offerings was a real deal and I have already used it. Of course jus...

Limeys love limes and have done ever since the 18th Century when they discovered that lime juice added to the sailors' diet would preven...

Yesterday we took the day off from working in our own garden to tour seven Austin gardens featured on the Garden Conservancy Tour. The missi...