ROCK ROSE

Several years ago, while visiting the former house of fellow garden blogger, Pam Penick of Digging, my eye was drawn to the snapdragon vine,...

Two years ago I bought another Texas clematis, Clematis pitcheri, at the Wildflower Center Sale. It performed poorly last year but sprang b...

This is a typical Texas spring morning. It is 7am and this coolness on the air will last approximately 2 hours if we are lucky. I walk outsi...

Celebrations are underway in Great Britain and many Commonwealth countries to mark the  Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the second's ...

Small plants that have a mounding neat form are few and far between. I am constantly on the hunt for such plants to put in the sunken garden...

We have been eating tomatoes at every meal. The crop this year has been early, undamaged by either hornworms or leaf footed bugs. That's...

For several weeks D has been working on topping the 5 Spanish Oaks which were lost in last year's drought. Today was the big day to take...

For many years I thought that I had Dittany of Crete, Oreganum dictamnus ,  growing in my garden. I have given away many cuttings with the w...

No time for early morning gardening today. I skipped out of the house early on the way to our monthly garden bloggers' meeting in order ...

Show me a gardener that hasn't had an accident in the garden. Danger abounds for every one of us and that includes the critters that liv...