April 16 , 2015
Creative Concepts
Poppies are pop our eyes out around town ! What creative little hybridizers they are . I love it when plants are craftier than we are . My aboriginal Salvia lyrata seed plopped down in narrow chink of my rough Lucy Stone back terrace . give thanks you!In a drive by garden , I bet the nurseryman “ sort of ” planned this lovely wildflower scheme in their front yard . These gardeners in Liberty Hill wanted a greenhouse and storage expanse . Thrifty , originative ones that they are , they snagged honest-to-god telephone poles to anchor it . They salve doors , window , and woodwind online and from booster . Now , who has n’t managed to moulder out a wheelbarrow?Mary Lew Quesinberryturned this one into a charming container to accent a shady spot . Amanda Moon fromIt ’s About Thymeis one of the most canny people I ’m lucky to know ! This week , she joins Tomwith originative ideas with food and pots . Did you know that we can grow nutritive goji Chuck Berry ? This sprawling plant to about 3 ’ round is moth-eaten hardy , and would even reckon great over a retaining wall . It can take full sunshine but appreciates afternoon refinement . crop berries in fall . For morning Dominicus , pineapple salvia attract bees and hummingbird like other sage . Its farewell have a fruity flavor that Amanda pairs with fish and chicken . cunning container ! parsimoniousness storehouse finds , your garage , or service department sales : clever up your terrace like this . But here ’s the ROCK STAR ! A melted LP ( scratched , warped , not classic custodian ) makes new medicine . From Amanda ’s mammy , here ’s the formula for vinyl record plant life pots : coiffure oven to 200 - 250 with a trash bowl inverted on a cookie tabloid ( some people leave behind the bowling ball upright and slump the platter into it ) . Place record into heated oven on top of roll bottom and oestrus until the disk folds over the bowl . withdraw and shape with oven good gloves . verify you keep the room ventilated when unfreeze down the record . look out now to see more !
nurseryman are always impale out thrifty waysto bet tomato plant and vines . I tell apart this cheap mind atThe Natural Gardenera few years ago . This week , John Dromgoole shows how to venture plants with sturdy tonne - posts , bamboo , and zip tie , even in braggy structures for gourds . Watch now !
Viewer Picturegoes to Jennie Ostertag who scavenged her tree trimmings for this artistic trellis!The posts are gravid cedar offset . For the cross piece , Jennie used cedar and crape myrtle . See how she did it !
Hyacinth bonce vine , Daphne ’s Plant of the Week , is a lovely summertime annual that needs structure . Here ’s how Trisha Shirey trellis hers at Lake Austin Spa . Its bloom attract bee and hummingbirds , and its calendered purple seed cod are crack in floral organization until they fade . Find out more!Thicketing ( as in invasive ! ) evergreen primrose jasmine underwrite its cascading stanch with scandalmongering in wintertime and early give . They can get middling ratty , thought process , with lots of dead underwood . Thanks to Kathy Smithfor post us this elderly one as an example that cue this segment!Daphne explainshow we can write out them down to the ground , as I have done . When they ( cursorily ) sprout new growing , stay on top of pruning ( like with rosemary ) to keep them dense .
On tourat theAnn Richards School for Young Women Leaders , encounter the young Makers take creative charge of their future . For Project Ventura , Ana Josephson ’s tenth gradation engine room students and Kat Sauter ’s 7th level science students collaborated to sour a 1997 backwash into a teacher ’s lounge , circumvent by fragrant , waterwise gardens . With online engineering science , squad collaboration and hand - on hard work , they built the Airstream ’s piece of furniture , set up solar power for pocket-size appliance and computer , and dug out Bermuda grass to plant fragrant roses , vegetable and wildlife plants . Principal Jeanne Goka stand her students ’ project - based erudition that instruct them to reflect , improve , and remake , worthful lessons for the future tense !
Thanks to KLRU ’s Randy Reynolds for leave the medicine . check over out hisHardly voice documentariesthat search the creative outgrowth of Austin instrumentalist .
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Thanks for stop by ! See you next week , Linda
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