ROCK ROSE

Copper Canyon daisy, Tagetes lemmonii, is the hands down November favorite in my central Texas garden. The plant is daylight sensitive so it...

This is a great recipe for using all the green tomatoes left at the end of the season. As frost is in the forecast for this weekend Austin g...

Austin garden bloggers had a busy weekend. A group visited Peckerwood gardens on Friday and on Sunday several members of the group met at Ma...

Last Saturday was a simply gorgeous fall day. A perfect day to visit the Dallas Arboretum . The entrance was filled with pumpkins and gourds...

If you haven't already certified your garden as a wildlife habitat let me tell you that it is very easy. All you have to do is to prov...

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...