Comments on: Spring Fling in Austin http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/ Gardening in coastal Georgia, Zone 9 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:22:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Elegant rain barrels http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-327 Elegant rain barrels Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:46:05 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-327 Always be sure to find rain barrels which offer mesh mosquito guards, and also look for barrels which have overflow valves-allowing the excess water to flow out of the rain barrels and away from your foundation. Hooking a drip hose to this valve is a great way to give your garden or flower bed a constant source of moisture. Always be sure to find rain barrels which offer mesh mosquito guards, and also look for barrels which have overflow valves-allowing the excess water to flow out of the rain barrels and away from your foundation. Hooking a drip hose to this valve is a great way to give your garden or flower bed a constant source of moisture.

]]> By: karen http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-218 karen Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:04:07 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-218 The columbine is obviously going to take some experimentation. The columbine is obviously going to take some experimentation.

]]> By: Linda MacPhee-Cobb http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-216 Linda MacPhee-Cobb Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:11:28 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-216 Rain barrel water collection is big and growing out here in Houston too. I love your pond building entry ( just after this one ) it's a wonderful pond. I tried dry shade with my columbine here last year and it wasn't happy. I'm trying dryish sun now. Rain barrel water collection is big and growing out here in Houston too.

I love your pond building entry ( just after this one ) it’s a wonderful pond.

I tried dry shade with my columbine here last year and it wasn’t happy. I’m trying dryish sun now.

]]> By: karen http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-213 karen Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:30:31 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-213 Thank you, vertie. No the tree-cutting won't taint memories of Austin. Just made us mad and I think they are going to be very very sorry! Thank you, vertie. No the tree-cutting won’t taint memories of Austin. Just made us mad and I think they are going to be very very sorry!

]]> By: vertie http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-209 vertie Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:51:12 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-209 Ugh! How unfair of those rat bastards to cut down the trees while you were away. I hope that it won't taint your memories of Austin. It was nice getting to meet you. Good luck on your textbook. Ugh! How unfair of those rat bastards to cut down the trees while you were away. I hope that it won’t taint your memories of Austin.

It was nice getting to meet you. Good luck on your textbook.

]]> By: Annie in Austin http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-208 Annie in Austin Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:11:59 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-208 Hi Karen, There were so many things going on at once! I missed the exciting live oak conversation, and am sorry yours lost their heads while you were gone. I'm not sure how much of Austin you saw - most of the events took place in the SW quadrant of Travis County. Just as Austin is a meeting place for Garden bloggers, there is a conjunction of different types of land in the Austin area. I have several maps but they don't agree! Most maps show at least three types of land overlapping: the drier, limestone Edward's plateau, the Cross timbers & Prairies, and the deep clay Blackland prairie with a fourth type, the Post Oak Savannah, weaving fingers through the Blackland from the East. You'll find larger [and different types] of trees in other parts of Austin. Also, many of the plants at the Wildflower Center aren't too happy in winter up in the NW section of Austin where I live. I'm glad you came to Spring Fling! Annie at the Transplantable Rose Hi Karen,

There were so many things going on at once! I missed the exciting live oak conversation, and am sorry yours lost their heads while you were gone.

I’m not sure how much of Austin you saw - most of the events took place in the SW quadrant of Travis County. Just as Austin is a meeting place for Garden bloggers, there is a conjunction of different types of land in the Austin area. I have several maps but they don’t agree! Most maps show at least three types of land overlapping: the drier, limestone Edward’s plateau, the Cross timbers & Prairies, and the deep clay Blackland prairie with a fourth type, the Post Oak Savannah, weaving fingers through the Blackland from the East. You’ll find larger [and different types] of trees in other parts of Austin. Also, many of the plants at the Wildflower Center aren’t too happy in winter up in the NW section of Austin where I live.

I’m glad you came to Spring Fling!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

]]> By: Robin at Bumblebee http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-203 Robin at Bumblebee Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:50:01 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-203 Hi Karen, It was wonderful to meet you in Austin! And I'm just fascinated at seeing all the photos that everyone took of the event. We really need to spend more time talking next year in Chicago. (Mr. McGregor's Daughter's is feeling the heat, I think!) I could use your advice on places to go when I visit family in Savannah. My relatives there don't garden. Robin at Bumblebee Hi Karen,

It was wonderful to meet you in Austin! And I’m just fascinated at seeing all the photos that everyone took of the event. We really need to spend more time talking next year in Chicago. (Mr. McGregor’s Daughter’s is feeling the heat, I think!) I could use your advice on places to go when I visit family in Savannah. My relatives there don’t garden.

Robin at Bumblebee

]]> By: mss @ Zanthan Gardens http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-202 mss @ Zanthan Gardens Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:13:40 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-202 Karen, I so enjoyed talking with you throughout the day. I'm glad that you were able to come to Austin but very angry that those evil men in authority chose that moment to cut down your beloved oaks. Maybe if we garden bloggers could bring it to the Garden Ranters attention they could spark a national outrage. They've done it before when someone filed a complaint against a gardener growing wildflowers in her front yard instead of a lawn. I'm glad that you were able to see my little wild garden even though at that point I think we were all to tired to do anything but sit numbly in it. I'm looking forward to your bog garden post to inspire me to go ahead with my own bog garden. Karen, I so enjoyed talking with you throughout the day. I’m glad that you were able to come to Austin but very angry that those evil men in authority chose that moment to cut down your beloved oaks. Maybe if we garden bloggers could bring it to the Garden Ranters attention they could spark a national outrage. They’ve done it before when someone filed a complaint against a gardener growing wildflowers in her front yard instead of a lawn.

I’m glad that you were able to see my little wild garden even though at that point I think we were all to tired to do anything but sit numbly in it. I’m looking forward to your bog garden post to inspire me to go ahead with my own bog garden.

]]> By: karen http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-198 karen Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:34:14 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-198 Yo, Dawn, good luck with the Aquilegia. I guiltily admit that I, too, have ordered a couple, with no idea whether they'll grow here and it's much too late to plant anything, anyway..... Yo, Dawn, good luck with the Aquilegia. I guiltily admit that I, too, have ordered a couple, with no idea whether they’ll grow here and it’s much too late to plant anything, anyway…..

]]> By: karen http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-197 karen Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:32:52 +0000 http://savannahgarden.net/gardening-blogs/2008/spring-fling-in-austin/#comment-197 Yes, Simon, Austin is delightfully lime/pretty arid. There are loads of gardens with deserty things in gravel. Can't do that in Savannah. We're too soggy. Which means the weeds grow horribly fast and anything colorful like the phlox that will take care of itself and provide a little color year after year is very welcome. Or maybe I just like blowsy? I think perhaps I do. Yes, Simon, Austin is delightfully lime/pretty arid. There are loads of gardens with deserty things in gravel. Can’t do that in Savannah. We’re too soggy. Which means the weeds grow horribly fast and anything colorful like the phlox that will take care of itself and provide a little color year after year is very welcome. Or maybe I just like blowsy? I think perhaps I do.

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