Coahuila Garden

We don't have a bleak midwinter here in Houston... Even as raggedy as our front, crowded garden bed is, it's still filled with colour. These pentas amaze me. And every time I look up into the...

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Seems as though poor August is all but a holding period - a no-man's land of gardening, of dormancy, where we all just wait for Summer to do its worst and be done with it so that we can come to ...

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It's confirmed. My better half and I are have fallen in love with the butterflies we have chanced to see over the past year of living in our new house. I knew this to be true for myself - but was...

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A Sunday is for gardening. Never mind the heat. There's just a hint of a breeze, and there's cool water, and there's wonder to be found outside! So many amazing creatures are busy living t...

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Making an ordinary Houston suburban garden extraordinary through native plants and experimenting with growing our own fruit and veg. (at least that's what we think we're doing anyway)

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Following this post  on planting a tree that's so essential to Indian cooking, I must go back in time a bit and tell you about a visit earlier this month to a dear friend's house in Missouri Cit...

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We garden for all sorts of reasons known and unknown to us. For people like me, who have lived severally in place, gardening with plants from these special places becomes an extremely important l...

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Twas in the merry month of June, I was driving home from...somewhere, and spied what I thought looked beguilingly like the cover of the River Oaks Garden Club's fantastic book, A Garden Book for ...

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As the over 90-temps approach, I found I've lost the gardening schedule I kept up during the Fall, Winter, and Spring. Now, we have to take considerable care to snatch whatever narrow window we ...

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...We're batting down the hatches with lots of mulch for the plants (thank you, neighbors and your raked up oak leaves, which we went about collecting in the Winter and early Spring). My better ...

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> Everybody is already > someone else > An existential tag line >  > Justin Marks Everybody is already someone else An existential tagline

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Two sweets and two carrots: Two of a few carrots we'll likely harvest this year! One lovely brother Anole, perhaps a relative of Kermit:   Here's hoping you visit Arcadia today and alwa...

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We can't say we saw the entire mystery of their birth from start to finish. They landed, as Fate would have it, on the butterfly bush, and ate every single leaf off of that plant. There we...

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In order to avoid the apparent exasperation my better half of 11 years seems to feel with my forgetfulness, I'm using this blog to document what's blooming when. Spring is such an exciting time -...

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The Waterboys | The Stolen Child by W. B. Yates Funk happens. What's a garden lover to do? Take Yates's advice: > Come away, O human child! > To the waters and the wild > With a ...

http://coahuilagarden.blogspot.com/2014/04/when-humanity-fails-nature-restores.html

So very many things are happening in the garden now, it's becoming difficult to document them all. "Ha," - Mother Nature says - "I haven't even gotten started yet. Just you wait." Well, we've wa...

http://coahuilagarden.blogspot.com/2014/03/hi-lites-of-late-pt-3-gosh-darned.html

We have been more than fortunate to have seen at least 13 different sorts of birds since moving into our home 6 months ago.  Here is a beautiful brother, a red-winged blackbird. You can hear h...

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We've been working hard out at the Coahuila garden and have made some progress with projects that we hope will fare well as we enjoy a (brief?) East Texas Spring. Most recently, Satsuma is doing ...

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We allowed ourselves a visit to Buchanan's Native Plants today. We went in with a shopping list, and stuck to it, more or less: Wonderful goodies at Buchanan's. Amongst our goodies are stars ...

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Last weekend, on Saturday, Living Earth delivered 8 cubic yards of compost to us. They dumped it all on the driveway and then they drove away. One pile was straight up leaf compost; the other, a ...

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In remembrance of Pete Seeger, who I do believe always wished to re-create Arcadia here, there, everywhere. One imagining of Arcadia

http://coahuilagarden.blogspot.com/2014/01/gonna-make-this-garden-grow.html

Kiki > Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower? > But I could never sell. > If you would like to borrow > Until the daffodil > Unties her yellow bonnet > Beneath the vil...

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> O killing north wind, cease! > Come, south wind, that awakenest love! > Blow through my garden, > And let its odours flow, > And the Beloved shall feed among the flo...

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The better half toils Now, you don't! Space! I was for keeping the wooden trellis, but it was rotting at the base. The wood is stored in the garage, waiting for another purpose, another li...

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Garden mascot, garden gnome. My better half made a composter today. Squee! We have three trees in the tiny little patch of earth on this planet we call home: a native bald cypress and two live...

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