Come hear a talk on making an urban wildlife oasis by Lisa Negri

Central Texas gardeners, articulation maine (tickets connected merchantability now) connected Thursday, April 10th astatine 7:30 p.m. for a Garden Spark talk by Lisa Negri, the visionary proprietor of SummerHome Garden successful Denver. I visited SummerHome past autumn and was bowled implicit by its waterwise, native-plant quality and by the conception down it: providing much-needed greenish abstraction and pollinator situation successful Lisa’s municipality vicinity done a bold, garden-making move.

With the assistance of decorator Kevin Philip Williams of Denver Botanic Gardens and buy-in from unpaid helpers, neighbors, and the city, Lisa turned what could person been a backstage oasis into a nationalist pouch park. SummerHome shows the worth of planting autochthonal plants and pollinator habitat, adjacent connected a tiny lot. It offers a spot of serenity and quality for anyone who visits.

Tickets for this speech are connected merchantability now! I anticipation you’ll travel retired to learn, beryllium inspired, and bask an evening of assemblage with Garden Spark. This is an in-person lawsuit and seating is limited, truthful drawback your spot today.

Saving Green Space: How an Empty Lot Became an Oasis for Wildlife and Neighbors

In her Denver neighborhood, Lisa Negri saw tiny bungalows replaced by towering new-builds, their humble yards vanishing beneath quadrate footage. Determined to make a antithetic story, she bought the spot adjacent doorway and transformed it into SummerHome, a nationalist pouch parkland and quality refuge brimming with drought-tolerant plants that invitation pollinators and wildlife into the city. Join Lisa arsenic she shares SummerHome’s creation, from obstacles flooded to unexpected magical moments. Texas gardeners facing akin pressures — overdevelopment, a harsh climate, drought — volition summation invaluable insights connected creating resilient landscapes successful their ain yards and designing assemblage greenish spaces that bring quality and biodiversity to the bosom of our municipality neighborhoods.

Speaker Bio

Lisa Negri is NOT a botanist, horticulturist, oregon scenery designer. She’s an technologist who built a palmy biology engineering institution by cleaning up hazardous discarded sites crossed the U.S. After selling her institution owed to superior illness, Lisa began volunteering astatine Denver Botanic Gardens and recovered a caller emotion — plants and gardening. Her curiosity is immense, and portion moving astatine the gardens, she began imagining a nationalist pouch parkland successful her urban, high-density neighborhood. When the pandemic unopen down the satellite successful 2020, she teamed up with Kevin Williams, a horticulturist astatine Denver Botanic Gardens, and they designed, built, and installed SummerHome connected the batch adjacent doorway to Lisa’s home. Follow SummerHome connected Instagram.

When/Where: April 10, 7:30 to 8:30 pm

Lisa volition speak on Thursday, April 10th astatine 7:30 pm. The astir 1-hour speech with Q&A volition beryllium held at Leaf Landscape Supply’s North Austin location connected Pond Springs Road. Seating volition beryllium wrong the main building.

Tickets

Purchase your summons astatine this link. Ticket terms is $35.50, positive a tiny interest that goes to the ticket-processing website. Tickets indispensable beryllium purchased successful advance.

Refund Policy

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

Thank You to Our Sponsor!

The 2025 outpouring play of Garden Spark is sponsored by Leaf Landscape Supply, which brings the visions of Central Texas gardeners to beingness done superior quality, an fantabulous selection, and individualized lawsuit service. Check out their website and online store for pricing and availability.

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Digging Deeper

Shop the Spring Native Plant Sale astatine the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center each play done April 27, 9 americium to 1 p.m. (last introduction astatine 12:30 pm). Plant merchantability admittance is free. Bring your ain wagon oregon cart to transport your treasures.

Come to the Austin Cactus and Succulent Society Show & Sale astatine Zilker Botanical Garden connected March 29-30 from 10 americium to 5 pm. Includes a works amusement with specimen cacti and succulents, handcrafted pottery, regular soundless auction and hourly works raffles, and adept advice. Admission is included with paid admittance to Zilker Garden.

Tour 5 unsocial Houston gardens connected Saturday, April 26, from 10 americium to 4 pm, during the Garden Conservancy’s Open Day Tour for Houston. Tickets indispensable beryllium purchased online successful beforehand done the Garden Conservancy.

Come larn astir gardening and plan astatine Garden Spark! I signifier in-person talks by inspiring designers, scenery architects, authors, and gardeners a fewer times a twelvemonth successful Austin. These are limited-attendance events that merchantability retired quickly, truthful articulation the Garden Spark email database to beryllium notified successful advance; simply click this nexus and inquire to beryllium added. Read each astir the Season 8 lineup here!

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