In the vastness of the Davis Mountains, there is beauty in a landscape where the brightest colors come from the blueness of the sky. At first glance, there doesn't appear to be much going on ...
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I hadn't been to Moody Gardens in years, so when we decided to take a trip to Galveston back in May, I decided to pay a visit. Lucky for me, the giant corpse flower, Morticia, was blooming. ...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2016/07/are-you-in-moody.html
I love LA! The LA Flower District that is! I had no idea such a fabulous place existed, so I was pretty excited when some friends suggested a visit during my recent stay in Los Angeles. Try to i...
I grew sweet potatoes this year for the first time, breaking my number one gardening rule: Don't grow vegetables that you don't like. Since I started growing food to sell at the farmer's market, ...
If you're looking to tour a totally "WOW" garden during the upcoming Inside Austin Garden Tour on October 17, 2015, look no further than this spectacular property overlooking Lake Austin. At the...
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On my Inside Austin Garden Tour sneak preview, garden number three belongs to fellow blogger and author Pam Penick. If you follow Pam's blog, Digging , you've seen photos of her garden, but now...
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The Inside Austin Garden Tour is coming up on October 17th. The theme for this year's tour is "For Gardeners, By Gardeners". On this tour you'll see primarily DIY gardens and get to meet th...
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The Inside Austin Garden Tour is coming up on October 17th. I was invited to attend a sneak preview of the tour and I'd like to take you along for the ride. Let's start with a peak at garden num...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/10/shady-natives-garden-tour.html
The vine borer moth is an insidious creature. It looks like a wasp, but it does not sting. Thank goodness for that at least. This moth is a fast flyer, but in the early morning hours you can find...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-insidious-vine-borer.html
For years my mulch of choice for the vegetable garden was alfalfa hay. Alfalfa is what Ruth Stout recommended and if it was good enough for Ruth, it was good enough for me. When alfalfa got too ...
One tomato, two tomato, three tomato four... the Sun City Organic Gardeners sure know how to grow some tomatoes! From the moment my group entered the gate with member gardener, Richard Bucho, we ...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/06/one-tomato-two-tomato.html
I'm happy to say that backyard chicken keeping is alive and well in Austin, Texas. This hobby has gotten so popular that I was finding it quite difficult to get chicks. I finally staked out my lo...
What would I do for the love of fresh, homegrown produce? So far, all sorts of crazy stuff including this story of the time we built a new vegetable garden in a weekend. The story starts back in...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/05/for-love-of-homegrown.html
With 30 years of gardening under my belt, I've experienced my share of crop failures. Pests, weather and my own stupidity are the usual culprits, but I recently encountered an unexpected problem ...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/03/heart-breaking-crop-failure.html
In the sleepy, little town of Theodore, Alabama (near Mobile) there is a garden that is bursting forth in spring color. The Bellingrath Gardens, first developed in 1927, were owned by Bessie ...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/03/embrace-spring-at-bellingrath-gardens.html
My husband and I live on a two acre property in the Post Oak Savannah of Central Texas. Caught between the clay soils of the Blackland Prairie and the sandy soils to the east, we seem to have an ...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-mystery-of-rocks.html
It's cold and dreary. Wanna have some fun and see my collection of fine garden art (tongue in cheek)? Come on in and have a look! When there's not much of interest in the garden, you can al...
There are aliens out in the garden! But, don't worry, these aliens come in peace. Kohlrabi look beautiful in the garden with their lush foliage and crazy bulbous stem. They are super easy to ...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/02/aliens-in-garden.html
Sunday is market day! That's when I harvest the freshest and best looking produce in my garden and take my wares to the Hope Farmer's Market . Produce has to arrive at the market by 10:30 a.m., s...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-girls-love-market-day.html
I've been working toward earning my Vegetable Specialist Certification by conducting a bio intensity study of broccoli and cabbage. Silly me! When the chips were down and it really mattered, I d...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2015/02/sometimes-cabbage-saves-day.html
It's hard to believe just two days ago I was wearing shorts. Today it's 42 degrees and I'm freezing my buns off. I'll say this: Texas winters are never boring. We'll be back in the 70's by Thu...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2014/12/cloudy-day-tomato-soup.html
Back in May 2014, I took a vegetable specialist class out at A&M for the Travis County Master Gardeners. I was exposed to some interesting concepts during the class, but none interested me as muc...
A tree ripened peach is a lovely thing to behold. It doesn't have to be perfect and look like waxed fruit to be good. It can have some blemishes and imperfections. None of that matters, because w...
http://gardenally.blogspot.com/2014/08/everything-is-just-peachy.html
During my recent visit to Portland, Oregon, I traveled some very amazing paths. I was in Portland for the annual Garden Blogger's Fling. The Fling coordinators kept us busy with 17 stops at vari...
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On my recent trip to Portland, Oregon to attend the Garden Bloggers Fling, the planning committee lined up some awesome gardens. We saw public gardens, nursery gardens, and the private gardens of...
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