Preview: Inside Austin Gardens Tour
April 30, 2024
Preview: Inside Austin Gardens Tour
Get set for a fulfilling day of design inspiration, problem-solving intel, and clever ideas on the Inside Austin Gardens Tour on May 11, a tour for gardeners by gardeners. A problem of the Travis County Grasp Gardeners, they’ll be available with the homeowners to answer your questions from vegetation to patio design and maintenance.This week, Grasp Gardener JoAnna Benko joins John Hart to talk particulars. This yr, tour 4 gardens on May 11 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. No cash: on-line price solely. $20 by Sunday May 5; $25 day of. Get your tickets proper right here.Let’s start off with Daphne Richards’ private yard, “The Work-in-Progress.”As our Travis County Extension Horticulturist, she’s on the go a LOT serving to us all out, so proper right here’s a possibility to get her suggestions on starting from scratch.We visited Julie Nelson and Kay Angermann’s yard in 2019 for the 2020 Grasp Gardener tour. They launched inventive collaboration, muscle-wielding grit, and draw back fixing to rocky, flooding ground to sentimentally-dubbed Katie Hen Farm, named for Kay’s grandmother.The pandemic pushed that tour once more 4 years, so I do know that the dynamic duo at “The Suburban Farm” has further in retailer for you.For sure, you’ll wander amongst clever repurposed finds, flood-control plant design on berms, and nice dialog nooks to talk with the hens and gregarious donkeys!At “The Elevated Yard,” uncover designs atop a stone quarry. Grasp Gardener Theresa Garcia and husband, Donnie can present you a number of rock-solid ideas of their Licensed Wildlife Habitat!They elevate each half on their one-acre property. Wander through raised vegetable beds and beehives. They maintain chickens, too, who will probably be utterly completely happy to answer your questions on their care!In “The Woodland Escape,” meet habitat gardeners Sandy Stone and Joe Brown who constructed their dwelling to embrace their bounty of bushes and defend the wildlife that dwell there.CTG met them in 2017, nevertheless I do know they’ve made modifications since then, too.Joe creates sculptures to accent native vegetation of each variety.They normally convey clever whimsy and sentiment to every nook.Subsequent, convey spring and summer season’s yard magnificence inside to take pleasure in all yr! Laura Brennand, cut back flower gardener at La Otra Flora, displays straightforward strategies to dry flowers for bouquets, preparations, and wreaths.Summertime’s vibrant celosias and amaranth Love-Lies-Bleeding sort out new romance as their colors fade.Laura discovered her passion for rising flowers when her cute son Shea was an toddler (now 7!). We fell in love with him after we first met at Laura’s yard and later returned to find methods to plant flower seeds (along with persnickety poppies) in fall.I wager Shea helps her protected the floral bundles with rubber bands to dry in a cool place inside, along with Laura’s all-star: strawflower, gomphrena (globe amaranth), larkspur and statice.All her vegetation enchantment to pollinators in spring. Gomphrena loves the heat and butterflies prefer it. Proper right here’s a bordered patch butterfly dipping into nectar.Nonetheless to get the butterflies, you’ve purchased to feed their youthful. Bordered patch butterflies feed on cowpen daisy, sunflowers, verbenas, and zexmenia.So, Travis County Extension IPM Program Specialist Wizzie Brown reminds us that chewed leaves are part of a healthful balanced yard. With meals crops, you would want to make use of controls like Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) if squishing doesn’t provide the outcomes you need. Merely phrase that it is going to harm the caterpillars you want, too. Moreover, correct now, I’ve purchased wrens nesting in a patio hanging basket, and the mom and father are hauling a number of wiggly meals to the children all day prolonged!And to that, viewer Patricia Anderson in Bastrop shared a picture of black swallowtail butterfly caterpillars that devoured her rue plant remaining fall. That was one motive she planted the rue—she wanted the butterflies. So, she coated the plant with shade materials to keep away from losing as many as doable, nevertheless most had been gone the following morning. Most actually birds and lizards nonetheless snagged them (that’s occurred to me within the an identical situation).From viewer Marjorie Mautz comes a fall webworm caterpillar. Wizzie notes, “They create ugly webbing on the knowledge of tree branches, nevertheless infrequently set off future hurt to the bushes. Must you actually really feel the need to deal with them, break open the webbing with a stick or jet of water to allow predators contained within the webs to feast.”
Wizzie’s Yard Bug webinars are a great way to check further regarding the creatures in your yard! E-mail her at [email protected] to affix notifications. And comply along with her on instagram for the latest bug adventures!
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April 30, 2024 Preview: Inside Austin Gardens Tour Get set for a fulfilling day of design inspiration, problem-solving intel, and clever ideas on the Inside Austin Gardens Tour on May 11, a tour for gardeners by gardeners. A problem of the Travis County Grasp Gardeners, they’ll be available with the…