January 15 , 2015
Taming Runoff, Gluten Free Caesar Salad, Habitat Meets Art
We love the rain but not when it threatens our dwelling house and gnaw at our garden ! This week , Roc + Solid Land Designer Elizabeth McGreevyjoins Tom to wrangle rushing rain and keep it on situation .
Elizabeth explain a few simple things we can all do . One is piling I. F. Stone under down spouts to slow things down .
Another : bring tract slabs , raise above the soil , to tame water into pervious crack .
She recite how to make cut into existing pavement and driveways to trickle piss into gravel spread . Also to divert sheet action at law , head off trench mortar when work up new pavement and believe a charming private road ribbon .
In another design , she arranged concrete “ check ” in fashionable nutrient and ornamental beds to retain weewee on a patrician slope . The bordering pathways are crushed ¼ ” minus limestone ( aggregate used in asphalt ) . Over road base , she lays 1 ” of the limestone , create an alkaline base unfavorable to weeds .
Rain garden ( shallow depressions besiege by berms ) are an easy way to capture and continue body of water . Watch now !
aboriginal sedge are dependable rainfall garden candidates , since they can take juiceless and damp condition . Daphne explains how to grow Texas sedge ( Carex retroflexavar.texensis),CTG ’s Plant of the Week . In one spot in my garden , native Gulf penstemon bulge out up to join it .
Elizabeth McGreevy used ‘ Scott ’s Turf ’ sedge as a low - maintenance textural frame against a patio , paired nearby with silver ponyfoot ( Dichondra argentea ) .
‘ Scott ’s Turf , ’ named forhorticulturist and author Scott Ogden , derived from aboriginal sedge in a build ofCarex retroflexa .
In landscape architectChristy Ten Eyck ’s garden , sedge and bamboo muhly dot terrace of limestone slab and decomposed granite to slow down and continue water .
Toconservewater , many of us are growing cactus and succulents for the first prison term . Daphne answers : What ’s the remainder between cactus and succulent ?
inadequate version : All cacti are succulents but not all “ succulent ” are cacti . As Daphne explain , “ succulent ” is an adjective that mention to a plant ’s ability to store water through stems or leave alone as well as theme .
That includes cactus but also many other plants , unremarkably clomp together as “ succulent , ” like agaves , aloe , yuccas , sedums , sotols , and bromeliads .
Lack of urine , as in drought , strike down our trees . nurseryman seethe with the punches , though , likeJack Young in Bryanwho turned his dead crape myrtle into a morning glorification trellis . His granddaughter call it the flower tree !
Morning glories clamor overKatherine Carrington’sDallas crape Vinca minor that declined .
aboriginal cypress vine connect it to feed bees and hummingbird .
Personal line here : I met Katherine , a camber manager for Comerica , when my Dallas dada authorize away last dip . By the metre I reached her desk to deal with Dad ’s account , I was physically and emotionally fagged and really didder . Even in her professional efficiency , she quickly pick up on that ( along with my gardening interest ) . While waiting for things to process , she pulled out her phone to show me this .
I ’m not chaff : in 2 seconds I went from miserable to intrigued ! As garden photographers , we love when we watch the light like that ! But the big mint is how garden — and kindness when we call for it most — helps to heal . For sure , I ’ll flora morning glories this spring !
So , we ’ve all made those good for you eating New Year ’s resolutions and vowed to eat more wampum . Now what ?
How about a Caesar salad with creamy non - dairy binding and gluten free crispen chickpea rather of croutons ? Top with edible garden flower for bit of special punch .
Lake Austin Spa Resort’sExecutive Chef Stephane Beaucamp joins Trisha to put this tops on our formula !
He shows how to pillage and chiffonade kale plus whip together a nutritious ( and pleasant-tasting ) coiffure with flax seed repast and walnut . Here ’s the recipe .
On tour in Temple , meet Sarah Munro who bring back to her hometown to build a house with her dad on wild land she played on as a child . Rather than plant Mary Jane in the Modern ontogeny , she desire to preserve the aboriginal wildlife ’s home ground .
It ’s a young garden and we taped when some perennials had n’t recovered from a late freeze . But her first military mission was to re - verbatim rainwater that swoop up down the slope to the sign .
Working withartist Brooks Gist , he map out curving pervious paths describe with limestone cylinder block to transfer water and lease it easy sink in .
For vertical structure , Brooks designed trellises . This one sports native coral honeysuckle for pollinator and hummingbirds .
Along the fence , trellises support aboriginal crossvine and evergreen wisteria .
In the vegetable garden , vining crops grow up his recycled metal and ashe juniper bush body structure .
Again with recycles , he crafted the charming gate and fencing . To the left , more ashe juniper hides the air conditioner . Beyond , note the shallow rain garden and collection barrel that trickle overflow into it .
Sarah did n’t want to ban wildlife , like this Texas spiny lizard , when she moved into their soil .
or else , she ’s actually pump up wildlife multifariousness with a across-the-board range of plants , drink spot and cozy home ground . This tepee offer shelter to local possums below , lizard on its tree branch , and birds at the top . And to boot , it hides a public-service corporation corner !
Sarah values art in all its form : “ I think artwork is what redeem us a species . ” So , on a natal day , she commission this orb from Brooks ’ pal , Aaron Gist . “ I wish the tenseness between more morphological formal slice or hard piece against gentle lines . ”
To celebrate Sarah ’s process and philosophy in the land ’s young birth , Brooks designed a fertility goddess in front , again from recycled material .
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Thanks for stop by and see you next week ! Linda
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