Glorious Gifts for the Gardner in your Life As a long-time nature lover and gardener, I’ve been the lucky recipient and giver of a wide list of gardening and yard art gifts: serene wind chimes, vibrant hummingbird feeders, practical pruners, pre-potted plants and...
One of the more fascinating agricultural stories in Texas depicts Saundra Winokur and her journey over the past 17 years establishing a successful commercial olive tree orchard just outside of San Antonio. The orchards are thriving and orderly, with lovely facilities...
San Antonio Botanical Garden Tour the various garden walks, architecture and ever-changing garden exhibits. Eat lunch (or brunch Sat./Sun.) at the charming Anne Marie’s Carriage House Bistro (closed Mondays). You can also give your gardener one of the Botanical...
One of the more fascinating agricultural stories in Texas depicts Saundra Winokur and her journey over the past 17 years establishing a successful commercial olive tree orchard just outside of San Antonio. The orchards are thriving and orderly, with lovely facilities...
Fresh food is only one advantage A garden is a place of growth, and a community is a place of sharing. Used together, a community garden grows not just vegetables, but life’s work, pleasures and relationships with family and neighbors. Sprinkle water and chat with the...
Helping Bruised Souls Find Wellness Nature helps soothe a range of ailments, connecting people with roots that bottled medicines can’t reach. Many people in busy urban areas don’t access or engage with outdoor spaces, so businesses caring for people are incorporating...
Tending a garden in early summer evokes more than just the harvested vegetables. Gardening is a full sensory experience. Moist soil rolls in your fingertips as birds chirp from branches, and the aroma of tomato leaves warmed by sunshine wafts about. Children in...
Better dirt, better garden. It’s that simple and can make a big difference. Garden-Ville expert horticulturist William Green subscribes to the old adage to plant a 10-cent tree in a $10 hole. “That just means invest in the soil. Get a soil test done so you know if...
If you were lucky, you got some gardening gifts for the holidays, maybe some books or tools to put to use in 2015. The cold weather of late winter is the perfect time to do some gardening daydreaming, perusing seed catalogs and planning, but there are also plenty of...
Everything old is new again, as the saying goes, and in many ways that’s what the new sustainable gardening rage is all about — a return to good horticultural practices of the past. This includes protecting the environment with actions that are less harmful and more...
Though for most of us, “gardening” entails little more than mowing the lawn, a growing number of city dwellers are putting their backyards to productive use. These enterprising folks are turning parts of their property into small agricultural plots where they...
