Home & Garden

Seed Savers

In his early 20s, Jeremiath “Jere” Gettle was known to tirelessly set off alone in his trusty Saturn into the depths of Mexico and beyond, armed with only an old road atlas, a paper map and a ...

5 Handy Stories for Spring Gardening

Although the spring season technically starts in late March, we Central Texans know that warm weather can arrive much earlier. Get a head start on your post-winter garden with helpful tips found in ...

A Winter Gardening Bed

In a relatively small amount of space, home gardeners can create a vegetable garden productive enough to provide delicious sides or even main courses during our winters in Central Texas. Year-round ...

The Honeybee

By Bambi ...

Another Plant in the Wall

This past May, the University of Texas’ 84-year-old Goldsmith Hall became home to a strikingly innovative design concept: a living wall. The 10-by-25-foot honeycomb frame on the building’s ...

By Hand

The term “heritage” applies to more than living things with pure-breed characteristics that stem back to the age before genetic modification and human tampering. Right along with the resurgence ...

An Edible Legacy

For many, heirloom seeds and heirloom plants varietals are prized possessions. These seeds were often brought via immigration from distant homelands, and many heirloom plants have been developed ...

New Digs

Chris Winslow of It’s About Thyme is in the middle of explaining all the red tape behind moving his entire garden center to a new location when a frantic customer named Jim bursts into his ...

Merrideth Jiles

Merrideth Jiles never intended to have a career working with plants. The Atlanta native graduated from Georgia State University in 1992 with a degree in commercial music recording and worked for a ...

Plant on a Hot Tin Roof

Gardening in Austin is a perpetual and mysterious experiment. Our confusing climate, varied and inhospitable soils, and brutal terrain force gardeners to come up with creative solutions to many ...