October 2 , 2008
From the producer: 19 March 2025
It ’s my bet that gardeners are neck and neck with first - meter parents or favored owners for running down camera batteries . But nabbing pictures like this can be unvoiced .
Expert photographer Sam Myers will show you how he did it , and much more , at a free workshop present by theTravis County Master Gardenerson October 22 from 7 - 9 p.m. Registration is fix to 40 people , and you must register in approach . SO , after you understand my words of wiseness , check out their site and then email gisathccs@aol.com to confirm your spot .
A photo op you wo n’t want to lack is San Antonio ’s first - ever Garden Conservancy term of enlistment on October 18 .
Get the eye - popping preview this week on CTG , when Tom gather with Joann Neal , who volunteer to organize this premiere event after visiting Austin ’s tour a few age ago .
Her selections are splendid , each unique in style , proficiency , and script - on manoeuvre .
Ed Fuentes , Jerin Crandell , and I maneuver to SA last spring to videotape one of them . The video will make you salivate , so tune in ! But you must go in individual to satisfy the owner , Claire Golden , an activist I compare to gracious daredevils like Molly Ivins , Ann Richards , and Lady Bird Johnson .
In my garden , on Amelia ’s semi - shady fencing , thePlumbago scandensput on a few small flowers .
Since I got it at theWildflower Centersale last spring , we ’ve barely had pelting in a harsh summertime that tested its young . Its gallantry convinced me to add together lots more , this time in clusters , for a really good pic op ( with my centre , if not the tv camera ) in a match of years . Shade , clay soil , abject water , snowy heyday in summer and gloaming : It ’s a custodian !
Another keeper is what is now calledConoclinium coelestinum , but I met it as aEupatoriumin a twosome of gardens and had to have it .
It makes a little shrub , as opposed to the ground cover , Gregg ’s mistflower , now botanicallyConoclinium greggii . Pam Penickgave me a divided transplant last class , but I bought a few more at the Wildflower Sale . Again , they ’re just hanging in there after their tough innovation , but by next year , I cognise they ’ll be significant in my semi - shady musca volitans .
The BIG personal event this workweek was a visit from Renee Studebaker , Austin American - Statesmanpage designer / garden writer / Renee ’s Roots garden blogger , and her spouse , Joe Stafford , who arrive with a video camera .
I ’m terrified of “ the media , ” but I felt like I ’d found another kindred hand - on nurseryman through her blog . In somebody , Renee ’s such a flack that when I was n’t quaking , I was having sport hale her around to ask advice . And even though Joe ’s also a Statesman page interior designer and videographer , Greg and I finger like we ’d met new admirer instead of “ the media . ” Joe was very sweet when Harvey jumped straight up to the video tv camera and stuck his olfactory organ on the lens . give thanks heavens he did n’t toss it , which was his design . I can only desire that Joe has lens cloth to clean off bunny slobber . This sorcerous morning will be in Renee ’s blog this weekend .
And on KLRU this weekend , also check out Atchafalaya Houseboat . This journey back in clip go deep into Louisiana ’s million - acre Atchafalaya Swamp for an adventure with writer Gwen Roland , who 30 twelvemonth ago built a houseboat by hand and lived as her forebears had generations originally . Roland ’s heritage bring home the bacon an unusual backdrop for a universal story of self - breakthrough and the embracement of vernal idealism and a bare life . It airs Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and on Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
Until next calendar week , Linda
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