Welcome to
Maggie's Garden
in Texas
online since 1998
 

 

revist the 2007 garden pics here

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Contact maggie@maggiesgarden.com to
book garden tours or speaking engagements

Click for PowerPoint program titles
and booking details

including DESIGNING WITH
TWELVE MONTHS OF BULB BLOOMS

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Available at Maggie's speaking engagements,
the first in a collection of Maggie's,
Year-round Garden series
Classical Connections
takes you through the journey of one gardener
making her own piece of paradise. 
With unabashed wit and endearing camaraderie,
her garden saga is told through the personal
and historical inspirations that motivated its making.
Twenty-five photo-illustrated stories demonstrate innovative design ideas
and construction clues to translate the application of
vintage structures for today's backyard gardens.

 Classical Connections
wr
itten and photographed by
Maggie Ross McNeely
Caliche Hill Press
available at Maggie's personal appearances

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Come Stroll Update:
Revisit the 2006 garden in pics, here

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Check the current

ORGANIC GUIDE
and Gail Morris
Seasonal Guides To :
Kill Slugs and Snails Organically
Organic Lawn Care
Growing Tomatoes Organically
Growing Roses Organically
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Visit our friends at
Garden Fountains.com
 We especially appreciate thier resourcful links to
fountain historia

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Virtual Garden Strolls are
Here
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Visit the
the
Plant Profiles section

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This free site is funded solely out of pocket and
does not collect visitor info for any purposes, nor spam anyone.

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Maggie Ross McNeely's Newspaper Column
In My Year-Round Garden
and her plant profile series
Plant This for ...
appear in the Life section
of the Ft. Worth Star Telegram
every 2nd and 4th Saturday
 

In the tradition of the last five years of this sites Come Stroll entries, the newspaper columns narrate firsthand gardening experiences with incidents from Maggie's garden. Within the telling, she reports on regional plant culture and space-saving backyard schemes of classical garden design with plants and flowers for all the seasons.

An early exposure to classical gardens led Maggie to an ongoing study through research, garden touring and first hand experience. As well as practicing her subject, she writes, photographs and lectures on garden history and design, specializing in timeless historic features translated to a homeowner's scale for a multi-season garden in the unique Texan climate.

Welcome to our home, we are privileged to have you as our guest
and hope you enjoy your garden visit.

The weather here in North Central Texas has a short winter and extra long summer, divided by a mild-climate spring and autumn. Rather than grow only desert dwellers, we take advantage of these cooler seasons, when we can enjoy many plants which often bloom during the summers of cooler-climate gardens. Texas native plants and other acclimated heat dwellers rise to fill their spaces in summer. This strategy makes for a yearlong garden that catalogs a wide range of plant materials for gardeners around the world. Non-Texan residents can translate our bloom dates by using the rough rule of green thumb: plants flower about 4-6 weeks earlier here than in areas with shorter summers.

This site has evolved from an ornamental family garden on the ½ acre lot of our Ft. Worth home of 20 + years. Our 40-year old house was built on prairie land, made into a residential subdivision. When we moved in, the lot was still only parched tan grass lacking even the traditional foundation hedges of suburbia. After building a pool, we began spending more time outside our little house on the prairie, where I could stand it no more and began ripping out the turf. What I replaced it with came from my childhood memories, as personal gardens usually do. Having grown up in both England and Texas has produced a garden anomaly, that for us brings much of the best of both worlds to our outdoor home, here in Ft. Worth, Texas.

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