Come hear a talk about making a pocket prairie

Central Texas gardeners, let’s stitchery unneurotic for a caller play of Garden Spark talks starting connected August 24th! It’ll springiness you thing to look guardant to successful the midst of this vigor question to extremity each vigor waves, and you’ll larn from experts successful the Austin gardening community.

The archetypal talker for the 7th play of Garden Spark is John Hart Asher, a prairie/meadow-garden evangelist and main of ecological restoration steadfast Blackland Collaborative. He’ll beryllium speaking astir pouch prairies: wherefore they’re important, however they tin acceptable into immoderate size garden, and however to marque one. John Hart has a passionateness for prairies and the pollinators and different wildlife that beryllium connected them. Come larn much from him!

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Pocket Prairies: Creating Biodiverse Landscapes While Saving the World

Ecological restoration is nary longer a nicety. It’s a necessity. We each emotion wildflowers successful the wild, but shouldn’t we request to spot those aforesaid taxon surrounding our homes and passim our cities? In this speech John Hart Asher shows however to plan and instal a “pocket prairie” with a divers premix of autochthonal grasses and flowers. Pocket prairies reconnect america with nature, supply captious situation for pollinators and different autochthonal species, and amended the landscape’s quality to heal our world. By installing your ain pouch prairie, you’ll find retired beauteous rapidly that you’re besides restoring a portion of yourself.

Speaker Bio

John Hart Asher has implicit 13 years of acquisition designing and gathering earthy ecosystems successful municipality environments. At Blackland Collaborative, his ecological restoration firm, John Hart works with engineers, architects, scenery architects, and developers to integrate sustainable scenery designs, practices, and philosophies into projects. He besides aims to amended the show of greenish roofs successful semi-arid, subtropical climates and has helped plan and physique galore native-prairie greenish roofs each implicit the authorities of Texas, including for Austin’s Edgeland House, which was featured in Dwell and Texas Architect and won respective awards. Current projects see restoration of a tallgrass prairie successful an municipality riparian corridor; greenish extortion probe and implementation; and h2o conservation, ungraded remediation, and greenish infrastructure.

John Hart holds a bachelor’s successful past from the University of Mississippi and a master’s successful scenery architecture from the University of Texas astatine Austin, which awarded him a President’s Outstanding Staff Award successful April 2018. Since 2019 he’s besides hosted the nationally syndicated PBS show Central Texas Gardener. You tin stake helium has a pouch prairie successful his ain yard. Follow John Hart connected Instagram.

When/Where

John Hart volition speak on Thursday, August 24th astatine 8 pm. The astir 1-hour speech with Q&A volition beryllium held astatine Barton Springs Nursery. Seating volition beryllium successful their outdoor classroom. In the lawsuit of rain, seating volition beryllium successful the lawsuit barn.

Tickets

Ticket terms is $35.50, positive a tiny interest that goes to the ticket-processing website. I’ll unfastened further seats the week of the speech if the upwind forecast looks bully (more seating is disposable extracurricular than inside). If you find the first circular of tickets is sold out, delight email me to beryllium added to the waitlist. There’s a accidental further seats volition unfastened later.

Refund Policy

Tickets are nonrefundable. Your attendance helps screen a just speaking interest for our presenters and different expenses, and collectively we’re capable to bring talented plan thinkers to talk to us.

Thank You to Our Sponsor!

The 2023-24 play of Garden Spark is sponsored by Barton Springs Nursery, which has been serving the needs of Central Texas gardeners since 1986 by offering 1 of the champion selections of autochthonal and well-adapted plants for this area.

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