Congratulations to TexasDeb of the blog Gardenista–she won the $50 gift certificate to The Great Outdoors for our Austin Nurseries Giveaway! I’m sure TexasDeb will have a hard time deciding what goodies to get at TGO–whenever I’m there, I wander around for an hour or more. Thank you all for participating in our multi-blog contest–it [...]
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So during the month of October, a number of Austin area garden bloggers have been blogging about our local indie nurseries–this week it’s a Wild Card week where we can write about whichever nursery we want. Let’s give it up for my choice, Vivero Growers in Oak Hill! Now, in weeks past, I’ve done a [...]
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We are into Week 3 of Support Your Independent Nursery Month here in Austin! I am SO pleased to lift up one of my all-time favorites (it’s in my top 2), The Great Outdoors. Before I get going, I want to alert you to the fact that our Austin-area garden bloggers are having a great [...]
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We here in A-town love our indie nurseries! We’ve got some awesome ones, too, so Austin area garden bloggers have decided that October is “Support Your Independent Nursery Month,” and every Wednesday we blog about a different one. This week, it’s The Natural Gardener! Austinites in the southwest part of the city have long had [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I was up in Chicago for the Independent Garden Center trade show–this is the best show for seeing garden product trends! I’ll be posting some of my more exciting finds and trends at another time, but today I want to treat you to a little horticultural eye candy. Chicago is [...]
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Greetings from Chicago, IL! I’m here this week at the Independent Garden Center (IGC) trade show–an awesome gathering of what’s new and trendy in the garden products world! I’ll be running around Navy Pier this week (Aug. 16-18), gathering information about cool new garden products to share with you all, so stay tuned. I’ll also [...]
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I was on one of my weekly jaunts to The Great Outdoors, one of my favorite nurseries here in Austin, when I noticed some things. Some small things. We all go to nurseries to buy plants, right? But what about all the garden non-plant goodness to be had? I walked through and had fun taking [...]
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While in the San Francisco Bay area this last spring for a flower and garden show, I had the best day hanging out with my gal pal Laura Schaub at DIG Gardens in Santa Cruz. Laura works at this jewel of a garden shop on the weekends, and as it happened, our friend Debra Lee [...]
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