Last week we talked about a fun garden get-together and a few folks have asked about the recipes we talked about during the show.  I came up with these one summer while at the beach in Destin, Florida. I had spent most of the day on the pure white sands and emerald green water (the [...]

Have you ever noticed how all design deals with the basic elements and principles of art?   On the other hand if you have never enrolled in a beginners’ art class, maybe you didn’t know that art had any basic principles.  Not to worry… “Let me ‘splain.  No, there is too much.  Let me sum up.” [...]

Last week we spoke about value in the garden.   But before I go on, in the words of Domingo Montoya in the classic movie, “The Princess Bride”… “Let me ‘splain, no there is too much. Let me sum up.”   This is where I stand on “value”. I am a romantic. I will embrace [...]

    Thoughts: Our company, Mirror Lake, has been especially blessed this year.  We have had the opportunity to design and build some incredible gardens, we have won another international award (this beautiful fountain/koi pond  was the winner.), and we still have the greatest installation crew in the State of Texas, if not the country. [...]

Ok, maybe we were just a bit off this weekend. But when our producer, Glen Wheeler, played the bump music coming out of our first commercial break, I knew it was going to be a long, strange show. I’m not sure what he played but rather than the “let’s wake up and get this show [...]

I really had a good time going through all the entries from our contest last week about “song smells”. We’ve been on a little family vacation to Pensacola this week but we’ll contact the winners soon. We had a great response from some very music savvy garden folks. And apparently many of our listeners are [...]