Central texas landscaping

Providing Landscape Design and Educational Consultation for the Austin and zone 8. Creating low water, low maintenance, sustainable and edible gardens.

Temperatures are soaring and the rain cloud spigot is on hold except for spotty showers this week. Undaunted native Turk’s caps, including ‘Pam’s Pink’, continue courting fleeting hummingbirds in my East Austin garden. Colorado was a bit cooler when I visited in June for the Garden Bloggers Fli

Here are a few ways to reduce your yard's water consumption.

This is your guide to water-wise landscaping and gardening. Discover design ideas and tips, as well as the best trees, palms, hedges, shrubs, and cacti!

Now that the record-breaking summer of 2011 is safely behind us, I got to thinking....if gardening during a Texas summer were a TV reality show, could you bear to watch? Oh, there would be plenty of drama, that's for sure, with lots of whining and crying and pouting. Sadly, though, there wouldn't be much singing or dancing. In fact, most episodes would seem rather dry. Everything would be in need of an Extreme Makeover, and you'd end up feeling like the Biggest Loser. But one thing you could…

This is a year of gardening in central Texas. What to do in each month of the year in your garden form seed starting to harvesting.

A valuable selection of deer resistant, low water plants for Austin and Central Texas. Suitable for Xeriscape and hill country landscapes.

These are my favorite container plants to grow in South Central Texas. These plants can withstand heat and are very forgiving!

Although it’s technically still spring, we’ve already had our first 100-degree day here in Central Texas. That means our tough-as-nails perennials are being asked to show their […]

These plants are superstars in Texas gardens and landscapes. Experts recommend them for their ability to thrive in south-central climates.