Gardening Blog Posts

If you’re anything like me, I sometimes am at a loss for ideas as to what to fix for a meal. It’s the end of the week before the grocery store run, and my mind is a blank!

We’ve successfully gotten rid of our St. Augustine front lawn over the last three years and replaced it with native perennial flowers, shrubs, ground covers and herbs.

A gardening question I’m asked frequently is, “how do you have things always growing season after season?”

This title probably has a spiritual connotation for you with the assumption you’re about to read some deep meditation. In a way you’re right, because our creator has a purpose for each and every plant in its biosphere!

Gone are the days of tilling the lawn to create a new flower and/or vegetable bed!

It’s Fall in your garden, the busiest time of year for prepping for spring blooms, clean up, putting perennials to bed, and planting winter veggies.

Congratulations, you’ve survived the worst of a Texas Summer.Yes, we CAN contemplate gardening again!
Pictured above is the fall aster starting to bloom.

Butterfly migrations are in full swing and I’m desperately trying to keep some native bloomers alive to fuel them on their journeys.

Survival is the name of the game!