Gardens
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Wildflower Center 40th Anniversary Celebration
Join us to celebrate the first 40 years of the Wildflower Center by spending Saturday, Oct. 22, in the Lady Bird Johnson’s gardens! Guests can enjoy live music, crafts and more. Admission is free all day, but most of the performances and activities will take place between 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. In 1982, Lady Bird Johnson and Helen Hayes established the National Wildflower Research Center on 60 acres of undeveloped land in East Austin. The Center moved to its current location at La Crosse Avenue in 1995 and was renamed the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in 1997. The Center has been committed to inspiring the conservation of native…
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Explore the 2022 Earth-Kind Gardening Field Day
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Travis County Master Gardeners are having their fall 2022 Earth-Kind Gardening Field Day on Saturday, October 22nd from 9am to 1pm at the Travis County AgriLife Extension office located at 1600 Smith Road, Austin, TX 78721. Parking is available along Smith Road. This event is free and open to the public. Inexperienced and experienced gardeners and those curious about sustainable gardening, irrigation, growing vegetables, and selecting tough plants for the Austin area are invited to attend the fall Earth-Kind Gardening Field Day. The event includes hands-on activities for both youth and adults. Master Gardeners will be available to answer your questions as you…
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All About Mint
Most mints prefer full sun to part shade (especially afternoon shade) and moist soil without having their feet wet. Too much water or overhead watering can promote diseases and pests. Keep it deadheaded to encourage tender leaves and stems with the best oil quality. If the intent is to dry leaves, then allow the flower stem to form, but not bloom, at harvest. To prevent problems of aggressiveness, plant in a pot or sunken container to limit runner and root growth that can get out of control. Remember to experiment with different ways to use it. More ideas for Growing and Using Mint: Mint in the Garden Mint Tea Mint…
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Supercharge your Garden with Texas Superstar Plants
The new Texas Superstar Guide to strong and stunning plants for Texans, created by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas Department of Agriculture, is available online. To be designated a Texas Superstar, a plant must be beautiful and perform well for consumers and growers throughout the state. Superstars must be easy to propagate, which should ensure the plants are not only widely available throughout Texas but also reasonably priced. The Texas Superstar program began as a regional program in the early 1980s and became a statewide effort in 1989. The name Texas Superstar was coined in 1997. The designation was applied to all the…
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America’s Patriotic Victory Gardens
During both World Wars, America’s agricultural production became a powerful military tool During World War I, a severe food crisis emerged in Europe as agricultural workers were recruited into military service and farms were transformed into battlefields. As a result, the burden of feeding millions of starving people fell to the United States. In March of 1917¬—just weeks before the United States entered the war—Charles Lathrop Pack organized the National War Garden Commission to encourage Americans to contribute to the war effort by planting, fertilizing, harvesting and storing their own fruits and vegetables so that more food could be exported to our allies. Citizens were urged to utilize all idle…
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Community Garden Grows in Spicewood
Farmacy Community Garden has taken root in Spicewood. Is it time for Lakeway to have its own Community Garden? Let us know in the comments below. Through hard work and dedication, a group of volunteers in western Travis County have transformed a plot of scrub and rocky land into a community garden that makes a difference in the lives of area residents in need. The Bee Creek United Methodist Church in Spicewood is recognizing the effort April 18 with an official dedication of the garden, named Farmacy. The garden moved from its previous Spicewood site to its current location in 2020. After some initial delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Creative Container Gardening
From the Lake Travis Community Library’s Learning with the Library series, join the Container Gardening online seminar on Wednesday March 31st to learn creative ways to make a vertical garden in a small space, use vegetables as containers, and keep plants alive all year long in your Texas yard with experienced gardener Sharon Rogers. Indoor and outdoor containers will be discussed; green thumb not required! Register here. The Container Garden Bookshelf: Continuous Container Gardens by Townsend P. Allen Smith’s Bringing the Garden Inside by P. Allen Smith Container Gardening: 250 Designs Courtyards and Containers by McAlter Succulent Container Gardens by Deborah Lee Baldwin Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet by DK Easy Container Gardens…
