HUNTSVILLE - Seven new graves - products of a single morning's burial - scar the hard, rust-colored earth of Peckerwood Hill, the state prison cemetery near downtown Huntsville. Earlier, a few ...
After more than four decades, John Fairey sees no end to the planting at Peckerwood Garden, his legendary living laboratory near Hempstead. "I'm always thinking about what to add," the gracious ...
Painter andTexas A&M architecture professorJohn Fairey bought seven acres near Hempstead in 1971. The land's spring-fed creek reminded him of his childhood home in South Carolina, and transplanted ...
A friend of John Fairey, one of the country's great gardeners, once told him: "I feel sorry for your plants. I've never seen one not at the end of a shovel." Fairey, 85, still gets a laugh out of the ...