Mahogany Splendor is a beautiful and unique hibiscus variety and we’re trying again after losing ours in the big Texas freeze of 2021.

Nature is a natural antidote to down days.

Frogs can and do freeze, including their hearts, and then thaw and get right back to living their everyday froggy life when it warms up. We’re doing the renewal pruning at Glover Gardens in our own efforts to get our green back.

You never know what you’ll find here on the pages of Glover Gardens, “a multi-faceted blog for multi-faceted people”.

A forgotten beauty showed its face in my backyard a few weeks ago, as this gorgeous walking iris woke up and bloomed for the first time in years.

And then, all of the sudden, it flew away, wafting on the breeze high above the cypress trees, its wings fluttering a timeless message: fear not, only believe.

Our January blooms are sprawling wildly, bursting with color, ignoring the season, crowding each other and competing for Most Beautiful.

Reinforcing my benign neglect this year, the greenery of Glover Gardens has gifted us with unexpected late-November blooms.

Butterflies, butterfly weed, and a caterpillar relocation project. It’s never a dull moment at Glover Gardens.

Although every day should be Earth Day, it’s cool that we have a day to heighten awareness and reflect on doing a better job caring for our world. Checking on the Earth Day happenings at EarthDay.org, I found that one of the ongoing ecological campaigns […]

The 2019 orange harvest at Glover Gardens … sunshine in a glass.

A digital postcard from Glover Gardens with scarlet Lord Baltimore blooms.

A rare gift as an early Mothers Day treat: the Easter Lilies and Amaryllis blooming at the same time.

Glover Gardens is an aromatherapy district with an abundance of jasmine this spring.

An Easter message and a luscious red rose from Glover Gardens.

Photos from home keep me grounded in Glover Gardens when I travel.

A single red rose is a star at Glover Gardens.

Roses and vineyards go together like…wine and roses.

Spicy homemade tomato juice is easy to make and good for you! Just add vodka for the perfect Bloody Mary.

A cold snap in Southeast Texas forces a moonlight citrus harvest and inspires a haiku.