October 22 , 2015
Garden Zero Waste + Summer Fave Winners
This summertime , we asked our experts ( YOU ! ) to state us their summer favored plant . Pride of Barbadoswon hand - down with votes from Shirley Fox , Linda Goodale , Robin Mayfield , Matt Boring , Tracy Simons and Stephanie Skarren . We acquire so many good drought - tough , pollinator - favorable works that we ’ll present the residue next week ! For this segment , plumbagowas # 2 with vote from Linda Goodale , Ovaltene Jones , Velia Sanchez - Ruiz and Robin Mayfield . orangeness - flaunt Mexican honeysucklegot a ringing imprimatur from Bob Beyer and Pamela King Malone , who also likes annual purple hyacinth bean for late summer color . fillip points for Mexican Aquilegia canadensis : it favors dappled nicety , as I can attest in my own garden . Morgan Goldberg and Lori Garven Horton extend for lantana , as do the butterflies . Lori specially likes a mixture of white and purple flowering mixed bag . Lisa Louden Rhoden picked sweet Texas bluebells . Chet Gresham went for Maximilian sunflower , and Yael Abraham is keen on tropical milkweed . Sherry Cordry likes succulents , including cold - hardy squid agave , with child for those shady spots or in container . Also in part nicety , go for Ceci Burklow ’s understory shrub / little tree : native American beautyberry .
tree made the inclination with a surprising twist . Cindy McClimans prefer native , multi - trunked , feathery retama . Its flowers are such a drawing card for pollinators!Eva Van Dyke chose native Texas torchwood , a small , fruticulose tree ( more about it on an upcoming segment with Mary Irish).Plus , Eva won the draw play in our on-line competition to spend a day at CTG ! Here with node Mary Irish . You might lead into her atBarton Springs Nursery , where she works part - time . Check out all ourPlants of the Week !
At last , it looks like “ fall ” is eventually here , which means that “ winter ” is around the corner , usually overnight , do n’t you know!Daphne explain how to cover plantsand why to annul charge card draped directly over plants . Plastic is all right for a greenhouse , terrace , or other body structure . Last hebdomad , we tap an innovative wicking bottom garden where Jay Carpenter curves kine panel over limestone beds . In summer , it supports climbers . In wintertime , he incubate with plastic to harvest tomatoes , crush , Swiss chard and broccoli at Christmas!Gardeners are all about clever use of resources . And Austin , like many metropolis , is going for zero waste . Susanne Harm fromAustin Resource Recoveryjoins Tom with wide-eyed tips for gardeners . What about nurseryman in modest spaces ? No yard ? She ’s got ideas for that , too . Wherever you experience , get more tipsfor compost here .
Red squirmer are a small - distance nurseryman ’s best friend to “ as if by magic ” turn your kitchen fight into free fertilizer . This week , we tap Ben McConnell ’s new vermiculture business firm that he regain on Etsy . Already his louse are happily working overtime . And here ’s our segment with Jessica Robertson from Backbone Valley Nursery fortips on commence your louse composter .
So , what all can you throw into your compost pile?Trisha list common household scraps , including report towel tube . Plus , get her tips on how to speed thing up .
To keep it at the good moisture level , she tells us : “ I like to use a five gallon bucket with flyspeck weep holes bore in the bottom to drench the pile slow , or spray layer of your compost pile as you turn it with a pitchfork , if it ’s really ironic . ”
Our Viewer Picturecomes with a romantic story ! Gail Standley ’s hubby Mike built a beautiful pond for her this year as a wedding natural endowment . Soon after they add piddle and fragrant piddle lily , more gifts arrived : tadpoles and now well-chosen frogs keep their wedding all year long!On tour , when Lori Daul bought her first house as a new Texas nurseryman , she dumped the pristine lawn for an adventure with drought - tough flora , artwork , flood yield and hardscape she could agree into her small car . She recycled bricks from an eyesore structure in the backyard into wide-eyed terraces that hold in rainwater runoff . When she come up this wizardly shell - like basin , she craft a recirculating fountain , much adore by birds and other wildlife . With a little paint and creative thinking , Lori catches the light and our attention . Now aTravis County Master Gardenerand garden designer , she ’s changed a lot in her garden since we taped . But her cagey , on - a - budget ideas are all right here ! lamentably , I lost most of my pictures in a too bad “ incident , ” so here ’s our video !
Thanks for break by ! See you next week for Summer Faves 2 and drouth - tough aboriginal trees with Mary Irish . Linda
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