Hopping over to Ruthie’s hilltop garden

Last week, I hopped over to Ruthie Burrus’s garden, where colorful wildflowers bloom around spiky agaves and yuccas–and one big rabbit.… Read More

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Last week, I hopped over to Ruthie Burrus’s garden in the Rollingwood neighborhood for a spring visit. Ruthie kindly opened her garden to me and my out-of-town guest Lisa Negri of SummerHome Garden. As always, the gardens surrounding Ruthie’s hilltop home enchant with a textural mix of spiky plants, like beaked yucca…

…and softly colored native perennials, like Gulf penstemon.

A rabbit sculpture seems particularly appropriate for a near-Easter visit. Its ears echo a forked tree trunk behind it.

Peace

Along the street, a big whale’s tongue agave is sending up a girthy bloom spike. It’ll likely double in height before the candelabra flowers open, signaling the plant’s imminent demise. (Agaves die after flowering.)

Sweet peas climb a mesh fence surrounding a tennis court. Of course I stopped to smell their delicious, sweet fragrance.

A seldom used side path has been