The Everything Garden
Leersia, Lyre leaf sage, and cardoons in Colleen’s low-maintenance garden, April 2023.
Can a native plant garden be maintained without year-round pruning? In this episode, Colleen articulates her front-yard scheme for a super-low-maintenance native garden design for Central Texas, a cumulative idea inspired by past episodes of this very podcast. Her working title is “The Everything Garden.”
First, we introduce a corrections segment called the “Concession Stand,” and Leah wonders what the heat dome has to do with the surprising amount of debris in the road.
Mentioned: Native Texas Gardens: Maximum Beauty, Minimum Upkeep by Sally Wasowski and Andy Wasowski.
Past Horticulturati episodes discussed here (scroll down through your podcast player of choice):
June 12, 2022 “Design for Ecology and Conservation”
January 7, 2022 “Designing for Maintenance and ‘The Soul of a Farmer’”
May 16 2022 “Pocket Prairies with John Hart Asher”
Nov 27 2022 “Growing a Vision with Amy Hovis and Willy Glenn”
January 23 2022 “Plant Communities and Vertical Layers”
Nov 29 2020 Five Seasons Total Landscaping- also mentioned Four Seasons Piet Oudolf Documentary
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