There heeeeere! Okay, NOW it's officially Spring. I sighted my first hummer today...<< MORE >>

This past month in the Hill Country can be easily summed up in few words.........gray.<< MORE >>

I've been missing in action for awhile. Between preparing a talk on native plants for the Refuge and another on deer resistant gardening for the garden club I needed to catch up inside the house and haven't spent much time in the garden.<< MORE >>

I'm starting to see it here and there, that wee smudge of red in the hills...<< MORE >>

Yesterday afternoon I took a vacation. Oh, I had the whole week off... << MORE >>

I've been trying to establish a patch of praire in my backyard for the last six years. Think a wildflower garden is easy...think again!<< MORE >>

Though springtime in Texas is celebrated far and wide, autumn in central Texas offers some spectacular sites which may go unnoticed by most. I've lived in the Midwest and the Rockies but until I moved the Texas Hill Country I had never seen the sight of native prairie grasses in full efflorescence.<< MORE >>

Please use this site as a place to share your thoughts about living and gardening in the Texas Hill Country. So...lean over the fence and tell me how you grew those gorgeous salvias........ << MORE >>

I track the seasons by the wildflowers blooming or grasses coming into ther autumn splender. Everyday there is some small change, some difference that let's us know that the year is passing, the seasons changing.<< MORE >>

Autumn is here. The last few days the sky has been full of migrating butterflies.. Aren't they wonderful as the flutter through the air by the dozens!<< MORE >>