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• The Dallas Arboretum

  The Dallas Arboretum became one of my all-time favorite public gardens after just one visit. Jimmy Turner, the Director of Horticulture Research & the Garden Designer has a real knack for creating fabulous color combinations. He has a huge Texas-size pale...

• HAPPY HOLIDAYS

  It’s the holiday season and for many of you, it’s time to relax, unwind, and spend time indoors by the fire reading catalogs and how-to magazines or watching gardening shows on television. I remember those days "up North". I also remember my husban...

• WORM BIN FOR COMPOSTING

  Last week I talked about the free way to build your soil by way of a compost heap. You can also hire some industrious earthworms to build an extremely rich soil amendment by way of a worm bin. Worm bins can be homemade or purchased. Using worms to buil...

• COMPOST – also known as BLACK GOLD

  It’s cold and the weather is frightful. Staying warm and cozy indoors is delightful. Sorry, it’s time to go back into the frozen or mushy garden and start a compost pile. Why? Because you will want to grow vegetables next year and for many years a...

• PLANT PATENTS & TRADEMARKS

  Times have changed since our mothers and grandmothers cut back a plant and stuck the cutting in some dirt under a jar to make a new plant just like the old one. Now we gardeners have to be aware of plant patents and trademarks. Plants that carry restricti...