April 23, 2024
A younger couple who’ve attended my Garden Spark talks instructed me they’d drawn inspiration for his or her backyard from two audio system, prairie-garden advocate John Hart Asher and crevice gardener Coleson Bruce. Intrigued, I urged a backyard go to (i.e., invited myself over), and so they graciously agreed. So final week, I met up with Chris Vincent and Nicolas Webster of their bursting-with-wildflowers yard prairie backyard.
The backyard has zero garden apart from a small circle the place they’re establishing Habiturf for a grassy lounging spot. Paths curve invitingly round raised beds crammed with wildflowers, grasses, and some small native timber like desert willow. Locations embrace a hammock in a again nook, an outside bathe overlooking the backyard, and a hearth pit patio. This can be a backyard made for outside residing.
Chris and Nicolas have planted many pollinator-attracting crops, like desert willow…
…and blanketflower, each Texas natives.
Blanketflower closeup
Desert willow in bloom
Nonnative however well-adapted larkspur provides fairly lavender and white spires to the combo.
Standing winecup with its magenta chalices
Frilly-petaled cornflower
American basketflower in bud
A shy black-eyed Susan amid the blanketflower
Coreopsis, I feel
So many pretty reds and yellows, plus star-shaped seedpods
This can be arugula?
In a sunny spot, spineless prickly pear presides over a crevice-garden mound mulched with darkish gravel.
Lavenders and a bluebonnet admire the sharp drainage of the crevice planting.
A bigger crevice backyard runs alongside the outside bathe, which they constructed themselves. Chris and Nicolas have been impressed by Coleson Bruce’s garden to make their very own.
They inserted skinny slabs of limestone right into a gravelly mound, making a jagged, mountain vary profile. Between the stone, they tucked in small, dry-loving crops like woolly stemodia, a number of small agaves and yuccas, and a potted mangave (I feel ‘Praying Arms’).
Mangave ‘Praying Hands’ with silvery creeper woolly stemodia
Chris and Nicolas’s yard was over-paved with concrete once they moved in, together with a canine run alongside the fence. They’ve been steadily breaking all of it up and repurposing the concrete of their backyard. Damaged flat slabs work nicely for build up raised beds, and so they cleverly turned two cylindrical chunks right into a vignette with a chunk of holey limestone. The place a metallic pole was as soon as anchored within the greater chunk, they planted a sprig of Mexican feathergrass.
The couple is having fun with the extravaganza of wildflowers this spring, and so they’ve bought some prairie grasses tucked in, able to take over in midsummer and fall when the wildflower present is over.
However what a present it has been this spring!
A blue swallowtail butterfly having fun with the habitat they’ve created
Standing winecup and blanketflower
A residing blanketflower bouquet
What an inviting area they’ve created for themselves and the birds, lizards, and bug pollinators they share it with.
Thanks, Nicolas and Chris, for sharing your backyard with me!
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Might 4: Discover “good backyards, excellent swimming pools and pergolas, and outside rooms and gardens” on the ATX Outdoor Living Tour on 5/4, 10 am to three pm. Panorama architects, designers, and builders might be available to reply questions. Tickets are $33.85 for adults, $17.85 for teenagers age 10-17.
Might 11: Tour 4 Austin gardens on 5/11, from 9 am to three pm, on the Inside Austin Gardens Tour. Every backyard “is created and cared for by a Travis County Grasp Gardener and demonstrates life like gardening practices that inform and encourage.” Tickets are $20 prematurely, accessible via Might 5, or $25 on the day of the tour. Kids 12 and below get free admission.
Might 11: Save the date for Austin Home’s Great Outdoors Tour on 5/11.
Might 18: Pop as much as Dallas for the 2024 DCMGA Garden Tour on 5/18 from 10 am to five pm. Tickets are $18 if bought on-line prior to six pm on 5/17, or $22 after 6 pm on 5/17 or on the occasion. For a sneak peek, click here.
June 1-2: Take a self-guided, 2-day tour of ponds and gardens in and round Austin on the annual Austin Pond and Garden Tour, held 6/1 and 6/2, 9 am to five pm. Tickets are $20 to $25.
Come study gardening and design at Garden Spark! I arrange in-person talks by inspiring designers, panorama architects, authors, and gardeners a number of occasions a yr in Austin. These are limited-attendance occasions that promote out rapidly, so be part of the Backyard Spark e-mail checklist to be notified prematurely; merely click this link and ask to be added. Season 8 kicks off in fall 2024. Keep tuned for more information!
All materials © 2024 by Pam Penick for Digging. Unauthorized replica prohibited.
April 23, 2024
A younger couple who’ve attended my Garden Spark talks instructed me they’d drawn inspiration for his or her backyard from two audio system, prairie-garden advocate John Hart Asher and crevice gardener Coleson Bruce. Intrigued, I urged a backyard go to (i.e., invited myself over), and so they graciously agreed. So final week, I met up with Chris Vincent and Nicolas Webster of their bursting-with-wildflowers yard prairie backyard.
The backyard has zero garden apart from a small circle the place they’re establishing Habiturf for a grassy lounging spot. Paths curve invitingly round raised beds crammed with wildflowers, grasses, and some small native timber like desert willow. Locations embrace a hammock in a again nook, an outside bathe overlooking the backyard, and a hearth pit patio. This can be a backyard made for outside residing.
Chris and Nicolas have planted many pollinator-attracting crops, like desert willow…
…and blanketflower, each Texas natives.
Blanketflower closeup
Desert willow in bloom
Nonnative however well-adapted larkspur provides fairly lavender and white spires to the combo.
Standing winecup with its magenta chalices
Frilly-petaled cornflower
American basketflower in bud
A shy black-eyed Susan amid the blanketflower
Coreopsis, I feel
So many pretty reds and yellows, plus star-shaped seedpods
This can be arugula?
In a sunny spot, spineless prickly pear presides over a crevice-garden mound mulched with darkish gravel.
Lavenders and a bluebonnet admire the sharp drainage of the crevice planting.
A bigger crevice backyard runs alongside the outside bathe, which they constructed themselves. Chris and Nicolas have been impressed by Coleson Bruce’s garden to make their very own.
They inserted skinny slabs of limestone right into a gravelly mound, making a jagged, mountain vary profile. Between the stone, they tucked in small, dry-loving crops like woolly stemodia, a number of small agaves and yuccas, and a potted mangave (I feel ‘Praying Arms’).
Mangave ‘Praying Hands’ with silvery creeper woolly stemodia
Chris and Nicolas’s yard was over-paved with concrete once they moved in, together with a canine run alongside the fence. They’ve been steadily breaking all of it up and repurposing the concrete of their backyard. Damaged flat slabs work nicely for build up raised beds, and so they cleverly turned two cylindrical chunks right into a vignette with a chunk of holey limestone. The place a metallic pole was as soon as anchored within the greater chunk, they planted a sprig of Mexican feathergrass.
The couple is having fun with the extravaganza of wildflowers this spring, and so they’ve bought some prairie grasses tucked in, able to take over in midsummer and fall when the wildflower present is over.
However what a present it has been this spring!
A blue swallowtail butterfly having fun with the habitat they’ve created
Standing winecup and blanketflower
A residing blanketflower bouquet
What an inviting area they’ve created for themselves and the birds, lizards, and bug pollinators they share it with.
Thanks, Nicolas and Chris, for sharing your backyard with me!
I welcome your feedback. Please scroll to the top of this submit to go away one. For those who’re studying in an e-mail, click here to visit Digging and discover the remark field on the finish of every submit. And hey, did somebody ahead this e-mail to you, and also you wish to subscribe? Click here to get Digging delivered on to your inbox!
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Digging Deeper
Might 4: Discover “good backyards, excellent swimming pools and pergolas, and outside rooms and gardens” on the ATX Outdoor Living Tour on 5/4, 10 am to three pm. Panorama architects, designers, and builders might be available to reply questions. Tickets are $33.85 for adults, $17.85 for teenagers age 10-17.
Might 11: Tour 4 Austin gardens on 5/11, from 9 am to three pm, on the Inside Austin Gardens Tour. Every backyard “is created and cared for by a Travis County Grasp Gardener and demonstrates life like gardening practices that inform and encourage.” Tickets are $20 prematurely, accessible via Might 5, or $25 on the day of the tour. Kids 12 and below get free admission.
Might 11: Save the date for Austin Home’s Great Outdoors Tour on 5/11.
Might 18: Pop as much as Dallas for the 2024 DCMGA Garden Tour on 5/18 from 10 am to five pm. Tickets are $18 if bought on-line prior to six pm on 5/17, or $22 after 6 pm on 5/17 or on the occasion. For a sneak peek, click here.
June 1-2: Take a self-guided, 2-day tour of ponds and gardens in and round Austin on the annual Austin Pond and Garden Tour, held 6/1 and 6/2, 9 am to five pm. Tickets are $20 to $25.
Come study gardening and design at Garden Spark! I arrange in-person talks by inspiring designers, panorama architects, authors, and gardeners a number of occasions a yr in Austin. These are limited-attendance occasions that promote out rapidly, so be part of the Backyard Spark e-mail checklist to be notified prematurely; merely click this link and ask to be added. Season 8 kicks off in fall 2024. Keep tuned for more information!
All materials © 2024 by Pam Penick for Digging. Unauthorized replica prohibited.