Joy Max Jardín teaches easy gardening
methods for
better meals
and mental health

Founder / Designer/ Seed curator Jennymarie Jemison will help you grow food and flowers in whatever space you have.

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“Jemison has created more than a garden shop — Joy Max Jardin is a mood-lifting micro-universe.”

— Austin Chronicle, Best of Austin 2025

What to Do this Month in the Garden

It’s summertime! And the living is not easy.

Read the grow guide for July

Jennymarie is the 2025 Austin Chronicle “Best of Austin” covergirl!

“Jennymarie Jemison isn’t just selling seeds – she’s growing a joyful, radically welcoming gardening movement.”

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View fullsize My annual contribution to #worldnakedgardeningday is surrounded by love-in-the-mist, nothing between me and that airy Nigella foliage but my dollar store gardening gloves. Nothing soothes my nervous system more than being in the garden. Immersion in
View fullsize Every April, this ‘Magical’ Bearded Iris tries to distract me from tax day and I love her for it. I got her out of a bin at @tngaustin not knowing what would happen. Five years later, she still takes my breath away.
View fullsize Happy Easter!! This April has been all poppies and primroses in the garden. Usually by now I’m up to my elbows in ranunculus, but the cruel late freezes really walloped them back to the leaves. I’ve only had a few bouquets of them so far,
View fullsize President’s Day is a perfect day to plant potatoes in central Texas. If you haven’t chitted yours yet, there’s still time. Let seed potatoes sprout before planting by placing them in a cool, bright spot. If your potatoes are large
View fullsize Joy Max Jardín is for Lovers. 💘 And let me tell you how much I love chard. Even if you don’t eat it often, it looks so beautiful and is just so easy to grow that I highly recommend adding it to your spring planting (go ahead and sow tho
View fullsize “It takes far more courage to stare down the barrel of a gun while you’re armed with only a whistle and a phone than it does to point a gun at an unarmed protester.” “These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one&
View fullsize We had our first frost this weekend. Overnight, all the summer holdovers like this African Blue Basil, got their ticket punched. The coming weekend will be colder. If you have any tender crops, get your frost blankets ready.
View fullsize On this Small business Saturday, I want to say thanks to everyone who’s ever made an order, left a review, asked a question, shared a triumph, shared with someone they know, or become a friend through my little shop aka labor of love. It means
View fullsize Black Thumb Friday is happening till Monday and everything is 20% off. Literally the whole shop. Fall seeds? Yup. Ranunculus? Now shipping! If you’ve been thinking “maybe I’ll try those fancy lil ruffles,” just go for it. The
View fullsize Each autumn in Niigata, Japan, the rice harvest leaves behind mountains of straw. Rather than discard it, students and artisans gather the husks and braid, bundle, and bind them into monumental creatures of myth as part of the @wara.art festival. Thi
View fullsize Thank you Dr. Goodall, for your devoted heart. Your curiosity and kindness showed us all how the language of respect is understood in the natural world, by animals, by the forest, and hopefully one day, by humanity too. 🤍
View fullsize “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree” – Emily Brontë Happy first day of fall! Find some nature today if you can.
View fullsize France went full Musketeer and trained four golden eagles — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan — to treat drones like prey. They literally snatch them out of the sky and dismantle them mid-air. Don’t worry, they’re n
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"Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower."

—Shigenori Kameoka

Joy Max's "Dazey" icon - a small smiling flower in the color green