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My garden has always been on the spiky side thanks to agaves, yuccas, and sotols. But right now there are more spikes — bloom spikes, that is.
My favorite hesperaloe (Hesperaloe parviflora ‘Yellow’) is blooming in the lower garden, sending up 5-foot spikes sheathed in moonshine-yellow flowers.
Three horn-like bloom spike...
This spring has been a bust for bluebonnets along highways, and we can thank the ongoing drought for that. But this week I got wind of a good patch out at Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area in Spicewood. We texted friends and spontaneously made the...
Digging turned 20 years old on Valentine’s Day. Two decades is a long time to devote to a daily or weekly practice, which is what blogging is. (Read more in last year’s blogiversary post.) Like gardening, blogging is a practice of observation, stewardship, and ...
Whenever mixed-media artist Julia Lucey has a show at Austin’s Wally Workman Gallery, I make time to go. I enjoy
A day trip to tiny Gruene, an hour south of Austin, has been one of my favorite excursions for as long as I’ve lived in Texas. On any given Saturday afternoon, you’ll find a band playing for tips in the old-timey dancehall. Gift and antique shops, restaurants and tasting rooms line the town’s two streets. Grab a riverside table on the decks at the