Blog Entries categorized as "General Gardening"
A Rose to Fill Your Garden or Home with Fragrance
September 19, 2024
Rose 'Perle d'Or' Packs a Powerful Scent
NEW Garden Soil Doesn't Mean BETTER!
March 7, 2024
Plant Myth: Should You Fertilizer Your Plants with MILK?
June 28, 2023
Fertilize Your Plants with MILK?
Botanical Nomenclature: How do I Correctly Write a Plant Species Name?
September 16, 2020
Botanical Nomenclature
Collecting & Saving Seeds
October 6, 2017
Bloomers that Beat the Summer Heat
June 23, 2017
More Rain to Come?
June 19, 2017
Fig Newton Trees
June 23, 2016
Basil: Plant and Grow Your Own Pesto!
June 17, 2016
Give Your Trees Some TLC
March 21, 2016
Killing Plants Like a Pro
February 26, 2016
Killing Plants Like a Pro
February 26, 2016
Time to Prune Fruit Trees in Texas
February 4, 2016
Heavy Rains Breed Mosquitoes
May 26, 2015
How Can You Not Love Bonsai?
March 15, 2015
Cascabela: A Tropical Texas Beauty!
September 17, 2014
Gardening Myth: It’s just too much work!
May 7, 2014
Your Home Address in Succulents
February 7, 2014
Foliage: The foundation of a garden
February 3, 2014
Chili Tepin is rockin’ it…
September 24, 2013
It’s Decorative Gourd Time!
September 23, 2013
Hot Climate Gardening: Watering in Summer Heat
August 14, 2013
Plant Nutrient Profile: Potassium
July 18, 2013
Plant Nutrient Profile: Phosphorus
July 11, 2013
Plant Nutrient Profile: Nitrogen
July 3, 2013
Food Flub: Cross pollination can be terrifying!
May 19, 2013
Cool Ideas for Spring Containers
May 9, 2013
Sunset Magazine Garden Photo Contest
May 6, 2013
Crape Myrtle ‘Black Diamond’
May 2, 2013
Everything Gardens - A Very Useful Permaculture Principle
April 23, 2013
Garden Chat on Ken Druse’s Real Dirt Podcast
March 30, 2013
Spring Blooms in the Garden
March 18, 2013
Natural Mosquito Prevention INSTEAD of Spraying!
March 11, 2013
Time to prune your roses in DFW!
February 6, 2013
Green Friday
November 23, 2012
Black Friday? No thanks…I do “Green Friday”!
November 21, 2012
Black Friday? No thanks…I do “Green Friday”!
Garden Giveaway: Win a free in-depth garden consultation!
November 8, 2012
Chihuly at The Dallas Arboretum
October 10, 2012
I know it’s 106 F degrees…but I’m still planting.
July 30, 2012
Agave Takes the Heat!
July 25, 2012
Reblooming Iris ‘Smell the Roses’
July 8, 2012
Mulching, Mulching, Mulching!
June 16, 2012
Have you harvested your garlic?
May 26, 2012
Whirling Butterflies…
May 22, 2012
Smart Gardeners Save Arugula and Dill Seeds
May 20, 2012
Gardening Tool Envy
March 6, 2012
Begone Grass: New Landscape Beds Take it's Place!
February 9, 2012
Spring Fever: New Landscape Beds
February 4, 2012
December in Texas…what to plant now.
December 22, 2011
Live in Texas? Plant in Fall and Winter…reap the benefits next Summer.
December 19, 2011
Camellia ‘Setsugekka’
December 15, 2011
Proper watering in this Texas heat!
August 3, 2011
Streetside Garden Blooms
March 27, 2011
Planting New Fruit Trees
March 15, 2011
Containers with Black Petunias
March 12, 2011
Aren’t you getting excited about spring?!
January 26, 2011
New Asian Jasmine ‘Snow-N-Summer’
September 8, 2010
Hot Climate Gardening: Garlic Chives
August 23, 2010
Off to IGC in Chicago…Then TNLA in San Antonio…
August 16, 2010
Echinacea ‘Mac N’ Cheese’
August 12, 2010
Dismantling the Vegetable Garden…Sniff, Sniff…
August 9, 2010
Bodacious petunias! Bauman Farms, Portland OR
July 28, 2010
Proper Watering Techniques for Hot Climate Gardens
May 11, 2010
How to water, especially when its hot
Blue Flower Groundcover: Ajuga ‘Catlin’s Giant’
April 26, 2010
Should You Prune or Pinch Fava Bean Plants?
April 24, 2010
From spring, to snow, and back again…
March 23, 2010
How Cool are Calendula Seeds?
March 7, 2010
Which Wood is Best to Build Raised Garden Beds?
February 16, 2010
How to Protect Garden Plants from Hard Freezes
January 5, 2010
How to protect your plants from freezing temps
More photos from the Amazon, Peru
December 29, 2009
Bees on the Passion Vine
November 22, 2009
‘Four Seasons’ Viola…My new fave…
November 12, 2009
Fall Tomatoes in Texas
October 29, 2009
Fall Harvest of Beautiful Beans
October 14, 2009
Passion flower, Passiflora violacea
October 13, 2009
Aggie Cotton in Bloom
August 25, 2009
Butterfly Ginger in Bloom
August 24, 2009
Welcome to the GrowLively Blog
August 4, 2009
OFA - Ohio Short Course
July 23, 2009
Spring Texas Garden Plants in Bloom
May 31, 2009
Garden Tour May 2009
May 18, 2009
Yard of the Month…this one’s for you Julie…
May 18, 2009
Stone’enge…
May 10, 2009
April blooms…
May 1, 2009
Japanese Maple 'Oshi Beni'
April 9, 2009
