Teresa Woodard

1 week ago | midwestliving.com | Teresa Woodard

This assortment of tall garden phlox includes Garden Girls 'Dream Girl' (top right). Carson Downing To tell the truth, I had given up on phlox. Years ago, when I bought my first house, I planted creeping phlox for a dazzling two-week spring show. But in the heat of July, the pink and purple carpets frazzled to crispy brown mats. I also tried statuesque summer-flowering garden phlox; the foliage turned dusty white from mildew just weeks after flowering.

1 week ago | myfoxzone.com | Teresa Woodard

BRIDGEPORT, Texas — About a dozen Wise County roads are expected to be closed through the weekend after heavy rain caused flooding on local rivers and lakes. Lake Bridgeport was two and a half feet above full pool as of Friday, and the west fork of the Trinity River escaped its banks. The Tarrant Regional Water District closed Lake Bridgeport on Thursday and began offering sandbags to help keep water out of homes at lower elevations near it and Eagle Mountain Lake.

1 week ago | midwestliving.com | Teresa Woodard

Dale Sievert is no stranger to awe-inspiring gardens. On visits to more than 100 countries, he has seen Kyoto’s famous temple gardens in Japan and Tivoli’s Villa d’Este in Italy. Yet it was a drive in 2005 to an obscure location just 200 miles from his home that most changed his life. “I almost didn’t take the trip,” the retired economics professor says.

1 week ago | midwestliving.com | Teresa Woodard |Hannah Agran

In 2005, Dale Sievert, a retired economics professor living in Waukesha, Wisconsin, visited a little-known garden about 200 miles from his home. While there, a small Japanese moss installation caught his eye—and he was hooked. In the two decades since, Sievert has transformed his property into a woodland paradise. Dale Sievert perches on a wall in his Waukesha, Wisconsin, garden, alongside moss-filled planters.

1 week ago | wfaa.com | Teresa Woodard

BRIDGEPORT, Texas — About a dozen Wise County roads are expected to be closed through the weekend after heavy rain caused flooding on local rivers and lakes. Lake Bridgeport was two and a half feet above full pool as of Friday, and the west fork of the Trinity River escaped its banks. The Tarrant Regional Water District closed Lake Bridgeport on Thursday and began offering sandbags to help keep water out of homes at lower elevations near it and Eagle Mountain Lake.