Welcome to
Maggie's Garden in Texas
online since 1998
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Catch the Nov/Dec issue of TEXAS GARDNER
magazine for an illustrated article
on this garden
 by Suzanne Lambry

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Garden writer and photographer,
Maggie Ross McNeely
is available for
public and private
speaking engagements

NEW PROGRAM FOR 2009:
MOON-GLOW PLANTS
FOR NORTH TEXAS

Click for more PowerPoint program titles
and booking details

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Thank you to all my long time Star Telegram readers
for your beloved responses. It has been a pleasure to provide
columns and photos for you these many years.
I look forward to including more of them in future titles of the
year-round garden series, Maggie

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now taking bookings for

OCTOBER 2009 GARDEN TOURS

and

 MAY 2010 GARDEN TOURS

Send tour enquiries to
 
maggie@maggiesgarden.com

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Revisit the 2007 garden pics, here

Revisit the 2006 garden in pics, here

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The first title in a collection of Maggie's,
Year-round Garden book series,
Classical Connections
is available at Maggie's personal appearances and now
 
by mail

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Visit the
the
Plant Profiles section

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Virtual Garden Strolls are Here

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Check Gail Morris' monthly
ORGANIC GUIDE

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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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