Fall Treasures

November 23, 2011

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Garden Designers Roundtable: Roberto Burle Marx, My Design Idol

November 21, 2011

In the summer of 2006, I took a trip to Washington DC and was roaming around all manner of museums, galleries and bookstores when I found this book: This book beautifully covers the legacy of Brazilian artist/naturalist/landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994)–I won’t go over his life and achievements here, but he introduced modernist landscape design [...]

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Vanilla Bean Marshmallows

November 21, 2011

I saw a recipe online about making vanilla bean marshmallows. This is sort of akin to making your own toothpaste (why?), but the photos were so cute that I let down my guard and gathered my materials. Let me tell you the end result so you don’t get scared off by the process: they were [...]

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I Love Fall…

November 20, 2011

“I love fall! Fall is exciting. It’s apples and cider. It’s an airborne spider. It’s pumpkins in bins. It’s burrs on dog’s chins. It’s wind blowing leaves. It’s chilly red knees. It’s nuts on the ground. It’s a crisp dry sound. It’s green leaves turning And the smell of them burning. It’s clouds in the [...]

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Bad Public Landscaping Lessons

November 19, 2011

I’ve posted before (like here) about taking lessons from public plantings, and this is a lesson in reverse. As in, don’t do this! I’m just going to list the things that are wrong with this so you can avoid the same pitfalls. The red mulch: Oh, ick. This one might be just a personal preference, [...]

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Vertical Vegetable Gardening

November 18, 2011

It’s time for a little Friday Link Love! Vertical gardening has been explosively popular in the last couple of years–and this is not just a fad that will go away. More and more people have less and less space, so it makes sense to take advantage of every piece of real estate you have, both [...]

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5 Best Flowering Perennials for Austin

November 17, 2011

We all know that fall is the best time to plant perennials, right? So if you’re an Austin gardener and you’ve suffered through the Summer of Hell ’11 (we should have T-shirts made), you might be reconsidering what plants to put in the ground now. They’ve gotta be tough, drought tolerant, relatively pest-and-disease free, and [...]

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Fall Sky

November 16, 2011

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DIY Compost Bin

November 15, 2011

Now, I’m the first one to admit that this compost bin won’t win any beauty pageants, but it’s a compost bin, for heaven’s sakes. Plus, it’s free, so that makes up for it. We’re on a roll at The Hunky Foreman’s house to slowly turn it into an urban farm, and it’s long been in [...]

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Crispy Kale Chips

November 14, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I made baked kale chips–I’d had them at a dinner party about 2 years ago and they were so yummy that I put them on my list of recipes to try. This recipe is so easy, so fast, so good and so good for you that it’ll be on my [...]

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