May 22 , 2015
Garden with Ponds + Homemade Bamboo Shoots
First , on a nimble spin around my garden , Peter ’s Purple bee balm popped out to cheer on generate hummingbirds!Angelica pachycarpain a shady bed is about to hit the sack until next winter , but not before feeding a few pollinators . Plumbago and a novel , native white mistflower ( Ageratina havanensis ) will take over when it go underground . Thank heavens I do n’t have unravel bamboo , but are you maledict neighbors who implant pesky prosperous or black bamboo years ago?Trisha turns that cuss into a yummy freebee , bamboo shoot ! See how to dig , cook , and preserve your own bamboo shoots for honeyed , fresh taste to turn cursing into culinary wow . Daphne ’s question this weekcomes fromJen Rhodes , whose pink Madame Isaac Pereire rise turned red . Well , the same affair happened to me!Daphne tells us that ‘ Dr. Huey ’ is the most commonly used rootstalk in the rose breeding diligence . After years of weighty pruning , or if the grafted arise expire , merlot - colored ‘ Dr. Huey ’ will beam out raw canes from roots below the graft unification . mark the grower , since many , like theAntique Rose Emporium , only sell roses on native root stock , so your rose will never turn color on you .
Now , let ’s plunge into the2015 Austin Pond Society tourwith BJ Jenkins!She and Tom previewjust a few of the 20 on tour June 5 & 6.The tour ’s a super way to get first hired hand tips and answer to all your questions . At each pool , the couturier — whether backyard hobbyist or pool professional — will be happy to spare you the pitfall of ponding and inspire your imagination . Actually , this is a GARDEN tour , too , where you ’ll get oodles of ideas for plant pattern , outdoor rooms , and garden art . In Leander , Betty and Gerald Ronga ’s hillside ponds framed by native plants are just part of their sorcerous gardens , include a colorful Spanish - styled court . On Saturday , June 5 , check out the north circuit to see what ’s changed in their gardensince we tap it in 2011!Proceeds from the 2015 tour funding Austin Police Operation Blue Santa!Find out more and get tickets online .
In Liberty Hill , meet Alicia Froelich and Paul Ortner , who started mapping their pool even before they finished building the house!Although a kindly neighbor with a backhoe excavate it , Alicia did all the rock work herself . Designing with rock is a first for Alicia . She ’s become such a rock hound dog that she built dry stack and mortared wall and raised beds throughout the property . She and Paul scavenged many of the sway from their prop and various rancher . Paul instruct himself brick egg laying for the outside support room ’s floor . Its shape of ruby-red and grey was sort of a originative flue with the people of colour he wrangled!Cattle panel mold their arbor where former spring - planted mandevilla will cover it by summer . With cypress from a friend ’s felled tree and their own cedar ( ashe juniper ) prunings , they built emphasis and furniture , like this café table . Paul used cedar tree from drought - cut down trees to signify the “ stately ” living room from the realistic one beyond . On their path to the nursery , you ’ll spot lots of birds and other contented wildlife . After hour of physical toil , Alicia and Paul take a short shift around the fire pit to plat their next undertaking . One big project is their greenhouse , structured with recycled phone poles and other discarded finds . Adjoining the nursery is their vegetable garden . To protect from deer and other forager , Alicia used metallic element lathe over cement board to stucco the bottom . Then , she rocked around it . Since they ’ve got more rocks than grunge , she built raised beds . Painted rocks key plants for Quaker who contain by . To wrangle her collection of charge plate pots and supplies , Paul render to his stock of cedar to make a “ pot corral . ”They designed their first concrete mesa top ( by and by reenforce the wooden support ) . Alicia found free granite leftovers to floor it up . All those dead tree diagram come in handy for their cordwood and clinker block structure . It ’s open on the back as their caprine animal shed , since the sidereal day Alicia went to a goat Malva sylvestris shop and came home with a baby goat . Emma ’s mortise joint birth defect ended her maternity career to suckle for goat cheese . Later , they got her buddy , Bella . Jack , another rescue , helped raise Emma . Now they ’re best friend . One of Alicia ’s biggest projects was digging out and rocking a small lake , when a nearby brook ’s runoff endanger to swim a preferred tree . Now , the neighbors all get together around it after employment to make relaxed and derive up with more projects!You’ll also want to check out their rainwater collection system that provides all their house and garden water supply .
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Thanks for stopping by ! See you next calendar week , Linda
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