Bonnie's blog

For many years, I went home in December to celebrate my mom’s birthday. Somewhere along the way, a small tradition took hold. We started an amaryllis bulb together so it would bloom during the Christmas season. At first, we used the clear glass bulb vases.

In our garden, the celosia came back from last year’s seed.  It wasn’t planted. It grew on its own. When celosia self-seeds, bees and wind mix the pollen from nearby blooms, and the next generation is never identical to the last.

Some flowers are show stoppers, even through our Texas heat. This gomphrena is one of those steady companions. I started it from seed in March, and here we are in November and it’s still blooming. No fuss, no special treatment just dependable color all season long. And the best part?

There’s a quiet satisfaction in starting a garden from seed. It requires patience, observation, and a bit of faith. This year, I experimented with a few new varieties—some were a success, others not as much—but the process itself was worthwhile. Feverfew stood out right away.

You won’t find many gardens like ours in this neighborhood or here in North Texas. It surrounds our home and invites you in from every doorway and window.   We love to choose unique plants for our garden.

Something wonderful has happened at P&B Garden: a new element of discovery has taken flight—birds!

It's time to start dreaming about our 2025 garden. Now that we have more flexibility in our retirement, we can plan with greater care and not have to be in such a hurry. 

Here is our last bouquet from our 2024 garden, made from a david austin rose, belinda dreams rose, agertum and celosia.  It was so rewarding to be able to gift a lot of beautiful bouquets from our garden this year to friends and family, but I got to give this last bouquet to my daughter which ma

Very close to our home is a lovely flower farm in Coppell called Bishop Hill Farm  https://bishophillfarmflowers.com/shop/    Amanda is the owner and very knowledgeable on all aspects of flower farming, arranging and drying.  We purchased the

Every year I plant tulips and daffodils so they bloom for Easter and Mother's Day.  Unfortunately, the squirrels have always dug up my tulip and daffodil bulbs in years past.  This year I learned from Callie at the Dallas Garden School that I was not planting the bulbs deep enough.    Thank you