March 11, 2025
Final week a sold-out crowd gathered for the most recent Backyard Spark speak, which featured Danny Bravens, proprietor/designer at Native Son Gardens. Danny gave an enchanting presentation about his course of for creating self-sustaining meadow gardens and xeriscape (waterwise) landscapes in Central Texas.
Danny makes a speciality of ecological panorama design that includes native crops, and his aim is earth-friendly gardens that don’t require common watering as soon as established. Possibly not any watering. His native meadows undergo durations of flowering and dormancy, like pure landscapes, and depend on supportive communities of crops that develop collectively in nature.
Leaf Panorama Provide offered a heat welcome and a lovely venue for Backyard Spark at their north location on Pond Springs Highway. Go verify them out if you happen to haven’t shopped at Leaf earlier than. They’re open Monday by way of Saturday from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm. Additionally they have a south location on Hwy. 290 West.
Thanks to Danny, Leaf, and everybody who got here out for Danny’s speak! What an excellent neighborhood of considering gardeners now we have right here!
Subsequent Backyard Spark speak
My subsequent Backyard Spark speak is on sale now and options Lisa Negri of the unbelievable SummerHome Backyard in Denver, which is getting rave write-ups all over the place. I’m thrilled that Lisa is coming to Austin to talk to us about her visionary backyard on Thursday, April tenth, at 7:30 pm.
I met Lisa final fall and was greatly surprised by SummerHome’s waterwise magnificence (take a look at my pictures right here and right here). And I used to be impressed by Lisa’s dogged willpower to make what might have been a non-public oasis right into a public pocket park for her neighborhood and metropolis. SummerHome reveals guests the worth of native crops and gardening for pollinators, and it offers a spot of serenity and escape amid our tumultuous world.
In the event you’re within the Austin space, I hope you’ll come out to study, be impressed, and revel in a night of neighborhood with Backyard Spark. Tickets could also be bought on-line now. Advance buy is required, and seating is restricted. The speak can be held at Leaf Panorama Provide’s North location.
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Attend the annual Budding Out Plant Sale & Competition on March fifteenth on the John Fairey Backyard in Hempstead. Store for uncommon crops from the backyard’s nursery and choose plant distributors. Native artists and artisans in addition to meals, drink, and demonstrations may even be featured. Admission: $5 for members, $10 for non-members, kids below 12 free. Hours: 10 am to 4 pm; members get early admission at 9 am (memberships out there on day of occasion).
Tour 5 distinctive Houston gardens on Saturday, April 26, from 10 am to 4 pm, in the course of the Backyard Conservancy’s Open Day Tour for Houston. Tickets should be bought on-line upfront by way of the Backyard Conservancy.
Come find out about gardening and design at Backyard Spark! I manage in-person talks by inspiring designers, panorama architects, authors, and gardeners a couple of occasions a 12 months in Austin. These are limited-attendance occasions that promote out shortly, so be a part of the Backyard Spark e mail listing to be notified upfront; merely click on this hyperlink and ask to be added. Learn all in regards to the Season 8 lineup right here!
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