Hard to believe that a week ago today I was being chauffeured around Austin by the lovely Pam Pennick and our fellow spring flingers racing from one garden to the next, each one a paradise unto itself, more fabulous than I could imagine. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING quite floats my boat like a garden tour. I am still a-dither just revisiting each of these gardens today by looking at the pictures again. Love those digital cameras. LOVE THEM!
Today, for your viewing pleasure, dear reader, feast your eyes on the lovely Lucinda’s home and cha-cha garden. She had also prepared some mango/pineapple punch, with fresh limes and champagne………served with exquisite Mexican pastries. I am tellin’ ya, it doesn’t get much better than this……..until the next time……….or the next.
For an elegant, one of a kind, Texas garden, get yourself to this one (on the Garden Conservancy Tour): The David/Peese home and garden in Austin. The home is built of humble materials, all put together in the most elegant manner. I know, I used elegant a couple times to describe this place, but no other word works as well. The house is created with cinder/concret block or CMUs (concrete masonry units), painted wooden floors, corrugated tin, concrete slabs, steel I-Beams and the indigenous, abundant Texas limestone.
Check out some more pictures of the David/Peese garden, here, on Pam’s Digging entry of October 2006. Different season, more plants.
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Now, if you can believe it, I still have one more entry to come on the Fabulous Fling. Stay tuned.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Dee/reddirtramblings // Apr 12, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Lovely Lucinda’s home is my kind of place. Thanks for taking photos since I missed that one. The other garden was something else, wasn’t it. Elegant doesn’t begin to describe what they’ve done with the place. I’m off to read part I.~~Dee
2 gina // Apr 12, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Lucinda’s home is so freaking adorable!
3 Pam/Digging // Apr 13, 2008 at 5:40 am
It’s great to see all your pics. I still haven’t posted yet about Lucinda’s garden, but it’s on my agenda for today. Thanks for the lovely memories. It was so fun to drive around with you on Spring Fling day, Mary Ann.
4 Lois // Apr 13, 2008 at 6:40 am
Loved your pix MA. While not OUR type of garden, I thought you’d flip out over Ricky Boscarino’s place, close to my home in NW NJ.
5 Lois // Apr 13, 2008 at 6:40 am
Loved your pix MA. While not OUR type of garden, I thought you’d flip out over Ricky Boscarino’s place, close to my home in NW NJ. http://www.lunaparc.com/lunatour/index.htm
6 bill/prairie point // Apr 13, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I missed out on Lucinda’s garden. Is that a wine cork mulch?
You took some good pictures and I like the PictoBrowser.
7 Mary Ann // Apr 13, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hey Bill! Thanks for stopping by. Yes, it is a wine cork mulch and it was awesome. The whole place was awesome. Pam managed to get us invited to Lucinda’s on Sunday and it was a real treat.
8 Kim // Apr 13, 2008 at 4:19 pm
What FUN Lucinda’s garden is! I love the tequila garden. LOVE it.
I also like that shed in the David/Peese garden. I hadn’t seen pics of that before.
9 Annie in Austin // Apr 13, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Lucinda’s garden was the most fun place! I’m glad you managed to catch one of the mermaids, MA - a most unusual theme.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
10 Layanee // Apr 14, 2008 at 4:31 am
I, too, loved that wine cork mulch. What a good idea! More wonderful pictures. Thanks.
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