DCMGA Garden Tour Preview: The Garden of Janet D. Smith

This is the unlikely story of a woman whose garden was created unintentionally and who, in the process, became a gardener accidentally. Prior to entering the Dallas County Master Gardener program in 2005 following her retirement, Janet D. Smith confesses that she was completely ignorant of any and all knowledge concerning gardening.  Her attempts at home...

DCMGA Garden Tour Preview: The Garden of Nancy Griswold

Of all the gardens on the tour this year, the garden of Nancy Griswold (DCMG 2018) is decidedly the most traditional in that it includes both a large vegetable garden and ornamental plants in equal measure in this back yard space.  Unusually, however, it is the vegetable garden here that takes pride of place in...