You’re invited to a gardening talk by Coleson Bruce

Central Texas gardeners, articulation maine connected Thursday, January 18th, for a Garden Spark talk by Coleson Bruce, an Austin gardener extraordinaire! Tickets are connected merchantability now. This is an in-person event, and seating is limited, truthful drawback your spot today.

And hey, a gardening speech makes a large vacation gift! It’s a learning acquisition and an accidental to conscionable chap gardeners, and it won’t clutter up anyone’s house.

Here are each the details:

Crevice Gardens: Finding Natural Resilience successful Central Texas

Crevice gardening is cutting edge and fashionable successful dry, cool-summer climates similar Colorado’s. But present successful Texas, accepted crevice gardening with alpine plants is simply a nonstarter acknowledgment to our vigor and humidity. Enter Coleson Bruce’s Texas-style crevice garden! Coleson created a Texas-tough crevice plot during the COVID lockdown, erstwhile helium abruptly had clip connected his hands and a tract of thirsty St. Augustine to kill. In spot of accepted alpine granite, helium utilized section Texas limestone to signifier the gardening crevices. Instead of alpine plants, helium deployed dry-loving taxon recovered successful Zones 7 and up. As soon arsenic helium got it planted, on came Snowpocalypse successful 2021, followed by the hellish summertime of 2022. Learn what became of it all, arsenic Coleson shares his acquisition successful designing, building, and maintaining a Texas crevice garden. Whether oregon not a crevice plot (or possibly a crevice container?) is successful your future, observe innovative techniques and applicable tips that whitethorn assistance you unlock the earthy resilience of Central Texas gardens.

Speaker Bio

Coleson’s plot has been described by Kenton J. Seth, writer of The Crevice Garden, arsenic “one of the finest crevice gardens: I’d enactment it successful apical 10 earth-wide, possibly adjacent apical five.” A lawyer by trade, Coleson’s inheritance includes godforsaken biology and sculpture, some of which played a relation successful his fascination with crevice gardening. What began arsenic a tiny landscaping task during the COVID lockdown morphed into an 8-month, all-encompassing passionateness project, from which helium emerged narrowly adept successful crevice gardening — admittedly a comparatively tiny tract of competition. His plot has been featured successful salient gardening blogs, photographed by internationally known plot lensman Claire Takacs, and volition beryllium included successful a forthcoming publication by Pam Penick. Coleson lives successful Austin with his woman and 3 young children.

Learn much astir Coleson’s plot here:

• A Texas-style crevice plot – and neighborly collaboration – brings midcentury Austin location to vibrant life
• Coleson Bruce’s crevice plot successful outpouring flower

When/Where

Coleson volition speak on Thursday, January 18th astatine 7 pm. The astir 1-hour speech with Q&A volition beryllium held astatine Barton Springs Nursery: 3601 Bee Cave Road, Austin 78746. Seating volition beryllium outdoors nether the large unrecorded oak. In the lawsuit of rain, seating volition beryllium successful the lawsuit barn.

Tickets

Purchase your summons astatine this link. Ticket terms is $35.50, positive a tiny interest that goes to the ticket-processing website. 40 seats volition beryllium disposable initially. I’ll unfastened further seats the week of the speech if the upwind forecast looks bully (more seating is disposable extracurricular than inside).

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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Digging Deeper

Come larn astir plot plan from the experts astatine Garden Spark! I signifier in-person talks by inspiring designers, scenery architects, and authors 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. The Season 7 lineup tin beryllium recovered here.

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