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erica's gardening blog // gardening in houston, texas
- In lieu of...
My own posts, check out the Houston Chronicle's growing gardening community: The Lazy Gardener--Brenda Beust Smith's blog (http://blogs.chron.com/lazygardener/) Garden Scheduler--BBBS's other blog (http://blogs.chron.com/gardenscheduler/) Gardening tips--Readers' blog (http://www.chron.com/commons/readerblogs/gardeningtips.html) Gardening forum And more to come.
- Mercer Garden Faire.
Mercer Arboretum & Botanic Gardens will host a garden faire next weekend, sept. 23-24. (via K. Huber)
- Speaking Latin.
Those Latin plant names give growers fits
- Yard Sprout.
this is about as close to gardening as i get these days--taking pictures of the baby outside. grass needs mowing (darin will do that), but it's remarkably green for late august. i think we've only watered twice this summer, and...
- Looking Back.
i have little (read, no) time for gardening and blogging these days, but i did enjoy participating in Kathy Purdy's excellent (multipart!) garden blogging retrospective over at Cold Climate Gardening. she'll be publishing several more installments in the coming days--don't...
- For the Birds.
ages and ages ago, darin brought me a bird pepper (capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum). the poor thing has been mostly forgotten in a pot on the deck for the past two-and-a-half years, but has, nonetheless, survived, if not thrived. but...
- Indian Summer.
what is the springtime-equivalent of indian summer? a front came through the houston area tuesday night, dropping some much-needed rain and the unseasonably-high temperature. it obviously won't last long, but in the meantime, the respite from a too-early summer is...
- Green Space.
over the last few months the houston chronicle has been introducing various reader blogs. among the most recent is green space--a reader blog about gardening. so, given the sporadic posting here, i suggest checking them out! the two authors can...
- This is not a Pregnancy/Baby Blog.
i promise. however, since i did just spend the last nine months pregnant, i'll briefly expound on the topic of gardening in that state. in short, forget it. my first four months (mid-june through mid-september) coincided with the height of...
- Our Springtime Sprout.
i haven't forgotten the blog, i've just been preoccupied with a different "project." on march 16, darin and i welcomed the arrival of our first child, an adorable little girl. (i'll be referring to her as "the sprout" in a...
- Greetings from NE Arkansas.
after leaving houston with the cats (3) and dogs (2) at 9 p.m. thursday, i arrived at my dad and stepmother's house in batesville, arkansas, at ~12:30 a.m. saturday. what is normally about a ten hour drive (including generous refueling/dogwalking/restroom...
- Obligatory Update.
woke up this morning to disturbing hurricane projections. the latest noaa projection has rita heading straight for houston. the cats, dogs and i are preparing to leave late this afternoon or tonight to head to my dad's in arkansas. darin...
- Obligatory Hurricane Post.
at present, we're planning to stay put in our house, which is about seven miles northwest of downtown houston. that plan is, of course, subject to change depending on what track hurricane rita takes over the next 24 hours. we...
- Pineapple Inspector.
here is faust, inspecting darin's just-harvested-from-the-backyard pineapple. i can't find any entry indicating when we (darin) planted the two pineapple tops, but it might have been spring 2004. i wasn't surprised that the pineapple tops grew, after all, everyone knows...
- Quarterly Update.
i really need to get back into the habit of regularly updating the blog, but for now i'll aim for monthly posts. things are currently hot and dry, not unusual for this time of year. the oxblood lilies (rhodophiala bifida)...
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