October 25 , 2022
New Gardeners, Unique Styles
It was a bit blustery for things on the wing in the beginning this calendar week , let in queen butterfly riding it out on Gregg ’s mist-flower in Kathleen Scott ’s lovely New Braunfels native plant garden . A monarch butterfly butterfly latched on to sky - high Maximilian sunflower . We were there to record an interview with Sara Dykman , author ofBicycling with Butterflies , the incredible story of her 10,000 - mile journey to comply the monarch and tell their story . come your way on Central Texas Gardener before long ! In the meantime , theWildflower Center makes it wanton to tell the departure between a monarch and a queen butterfly . This week , meet three young families creating their first gardens , each with its distinctive personable twist . Starting a garden from shekels can be overwhelming , specially when pennies weigh . Kristen and Philip Knight welcome the budgetary challenge as they chip at into a standard backyard for their untested folk ( and energetic puppy — hence the low picket fence).“I consider what I love most about working out of doors is the creativeness of attempt to find some sort of solution with what I have position around . I ’ve had fun creating trellis and just things for the plants to climb up . Almost everything here has some story of how it stop up back here , ” Kristen told us . In Manor , Matthew and Charity Wottrich planned their new menage ’s garden to grow up with their first baby Eden , born just weeks after our visit!Since their soil is so dull , Matthew ’s growing vegetables and herbs in raised beds , but he set fruit trees around the fence and is adding more even now . “I do n’t want to say nowadays Kyd are just on their computers inwardly , but I ’m a software locomotive engineer , ” he told us . “ I understand the pull towards sitting in front of a TV , but I think it ’s wonderful to get outside and reconnect with nature in a meaningful path . ”
Check out his pop hands - on YouTube videosfor planting presentation and his latest undertaking ( include address with periodic flooding).When Cleo and Shea Petricek designed their new home and garden , they want to unite house and community , indoors and out , to give their youthful son a lifelong passion of nature . “We get up with really humble beginning . My parents are Mexican immigrant and my mummy even brought some of her works from Mexico , ” Cleo said . “And something that she always teach : wherever you are and what station of life you ’re in , you may have a garden . That ’s something that I apprise from her and what I wanted to replicate here . ” Since her mother bang roses , Cleo ’s establish hardy roses ( include heirlooms ) around the garden , particularly along the gay fence . They created an inviting playground for their son and the neck of the woods kids to advert out under the shade of a nice pecan tree . “ And through a pandemic , we did n’t have a park to go to . So this was it . And we were capable to use this as a piazza to nurture our soul . ”
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Thanks for stop by ! See you next week , Linda
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