Posts Tagged “Garden”

Posted on August 21 2010 by Frances Brady

Resort garden gets noticed

Trisha Shirey is Lake Austin Spa Resort’s constant gardener. After all, she’s cultivated the lakeside property’s 19 acres for more than 26 years — since long before the popular destination spa earned its current accolades. “When I began, the landscape was a blank slate. I called it ‘Zero-scape,’” she jokes. She began with an organic [...]

Posted on August 3 2010 by Frances Brady

Houston garden part of urban sustainability trend

HOUSTON — A funny thing happened after Keiji Asakura suggested the creation of a vegetable garden in the middle of the concrete corridor and skyscraper canyon that is downtown Houston. It actually came to fruition — with a swiftness that stunned the landscape architect and the nonprofit group that shared his vision. Within three weeks, [...]

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