I love that first picture! Seriously!

So many Central Texas blogs! At first glance, Down to Earth and Digging are probably the closest to a blog on xeriscaping, which makes me happy during this crazy, crazy Texas drought.

thanks for posting this! we're entering year 3 on a reno & havent touched the exterior. I wear my rose colored glasses everytime I go outside & envision my porteger & stone paths, but for now, it's weeds, scary vines & dead or dying trees (mostly) is a treat to peek into someone elses garden!

GREAT LIST!

Thanks for point those out, verily! I'm in Texas too and having the same problem.

How cool to be featured on Re-Nest along with my South/Centra Texas garden blog friends at Digging and Lazy Shady Gardener!

San Antonio is in a horrible 2-year drought and we're under Stage 2 water restrictions right now. We're about to go into Stage 3, which means we can only water our landscapes with sprinklers or soaker hoses once every two weeks on our designated day when the sun is down. (Hand watering is ok any time, any day). From experience, it's too hard to water a lawn on this schedule so xeric plantings and hardscaping have been my answer. You can see the conversion from turf to beds in this blog post:

http://downtoearth-abbey.blogspot.com/2010/12/water-wise.html

I'm a recovering black thumb, so I can appreciate this. What I learned is that every individual plant has different needs, and my boyfriend (green thumb) taught me to water in the morning to avoid root rot. Good luck to both of us, and thanks for the great links!

I also love tundramonkeygardening.blogspot.com. My friend is a master gardener and just plain ol' knows her stuff. I appreciate her posts because her Alaskan climate is not far from my Minnesotan one, so I can actually see myself using many of her ideas!

Love this list - lots of my favorites too!!

Thanks for sharing the other garden blogs - always great to be inspired! I live in Australia and we're used to weather extremes of either too much water - flooding or too little - with water restrictions! Either way, most Aussies have become water-wise gardeners as we have realised we are not only helping preserve this precious resource but also saving ourselves money! I also love beautiful gardens so am always snapping pics to inspire new projects and ideas.

I recently shared Ten Water Saving Tips For Your Garden and Tips for Minimizing Plant Water Use too - hope these give you some more ways to nurture your plants and garden, as well as your wallet!

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Thank you for choosing my blog Carolyn's Shade Gardens as one of the 10 garden blogs your readers should check out. A lot of people came and read my current post.

Thank you for including Three Dogs in a Garden on your list of 10 Blogs your readers should check out. I am truly grateful and have noticed a huge leap in traffic visiting my site.

My garden blog is up and running:
http://www.naturallyhandy.com

Many thanks for listing humble ole me, too. Wow. On Saturday 6/18 I'll be posting pics and a video of my garden, all as a preamble to Sunday's in-person garden tour that I am a part of.

Gardenweb.com is a veritable encyclopedia of wisdom. I use it all the time.

Can anyone suggest blogs in northeast area, especially in CT, RI and MA?

I'm a beginner gardener in that I've only been gardening since 2009 and I couldn't possibly list all the mistakes I've made since starting out. I've killed more stuff than most gardeners I bet. And to all those people who say such and such plants are sooooo easy to grow, I say Pffffft, with a capital P. Not for me, I feel sad for all the poor plants that didn't make it for one reason or another, too much water, not enough, wrong growing conditions, etc. But I've learned a great deal so I appreciate sites like this one! I'm just now wandering over to each and every link to other blogs. Love the various garden pics, too.

PS -- to those living in Texas and the drought. I live in SoCal and we've had drought conditions here for years. It's a challenge to grow anything under those conditions.

Oh no, you left out YouGrowGirl.com. Gayla Trail is such an inspiration!