The Next Best Thing to Burning the Houston Arboretum
The new mini-doc We Are the Fire (above) describes the rationale behind recent efforts to rip out the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center’s invasive understory of non-native plants. Like watching...
View ArticleHow a Slumping Buffalo Bayou Rebuilds Itself, in 6 Photographs
The folks fighting a longstanding battle to prevent the reconfiguration of a section of Buffalo Bayou fronting the southeast corner of Memorial Park and the River Oaks Country Club have posted a...
View ArticleA Photo Tour of the Brand New Beaches Along Buffalo Bayou
The retreat of floodwaters has revealed the extent of the silt that Harvey-triggered flooding deposited along Buffalo Bayou. A beachgoing reader sends Swamplot these pics of the new dust-colored...
View ArticleAll the Dams and Magic Wetlands Can Do
Big, fat, cleared floodplains are the best way to handle a very large storm, explains wetlands scientist John Jacob — because nothing else is going to: “An average rainfall of 35 inches over all of...
View ArticleHow the Pavers Went Down on the Path To Redemption Square
Here’s a timelapse video showing workers creating a plaza in front of the lone extant office building in Generation Park’s Redemption Square development just inside the northeast corner of Beltway 8....
View ArticleWhat’s Crossing the Plaza in Greenway Plaza
Workers last week removed a few trees in the way of a new partition of Fountain Green, the plaza that stretches between Buildings 9 and 11 in Greenway Plaza just west of Edloe. Included in the scheme:...
View ArticleMontgomery Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Fourth Wall
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View ArticleGreenway Plaza’s Fountain Green Bisection Is Complete
What’s going on at Greenway Plaza besides the coming Lifetime Fitness and the patio addition west of Edloe? A new covered walkway now traverses the complex’s Fountain Green — linking buildings 9 and...
View ArticlePotted Plants Now Loitering on the Midtown Benches Along Main St., Refusing...
Here’s some of the new plant life that’s just recently sprung up on the bench outside the Mid Main Lofts near Holman St. (top) and at the southwest corner of Main and Winbern streets (above) outside...
View ArticleVibrant Trades Up Its New Fairview St. Trees for Even Newer Replacements
A Swamplot reader sends a photo (top) of the trees that appear to have grown up outside the former McGowen Cleaners real fast since plant life was first added to the bed (above) earlier this year....
View ArticleKicked Off the Midtown Benches They’d Clung To, Evicted Planters Leave Behind...
Vanished from the Midtown benches along Main St. are the potted plants that recently sat on them. The 3 sets of 3 plants each — at Holman St. and on both sides of Main at Winbern — appear to have all...
View ArticleHere’s What the Southwest Portion of Hermann Park Could Look Like and Where...
Narrowing in on the corner of Fannin St. and Cambridge St. which will soon go by the name The Commons at Hermann Park, landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh and his associates have sketched out...
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