If there is a drought of record in Central Texas, you sure couldn’t tell it by looking at this month’s Hudson Bend Garden Club’s Yard of the Month, the home of Cindy Banister and Nancy Weiss at 5707 Median Road. The front yard features meticulously manicured, lush St. Augustine grass and Asiatic jasmine under a canopy of live oaks.

The back yard consists of numerous focal points connected by paths through the natural terraces formed by native limestone. After they built the house in 1997, Nancy and Cindy set about landscaping the property which consists of two large lots. They have collected numerous pottery items both locally and during their journeys across the border into Mexico. Many of these pots contain the couple’s extensive collection of caladiums. Others have become fountains. Huge slabs of rock which were too heavy for them to move became benches which are scattered about the yard allowing one to pause and take in the beauty or watch the wildlife. Two grey foxes call their yard home along with numerous Road Runners. A mother deer and her spotted faun hang out at their back game fence, no doubt gazing longingly at the dozens of caladiums on the hillside. There are numerous king sego palms which add a certain majesty to the area. Many large pride of Barbados plants give bright splashes of color and provide nectar for humming birds and butter flies.