March 30 , 2017
A Taste Of Place: Edible Native Plants
First , I go for you ’ll join us atKLRU NEXTon Thursday , April 6 from 6:30 – 8:30 atSpringdale Farmto make your own terrarium fromSlavonk & Hortus Terraria , grab a beverage from Live Oak Brewing Co. and Z Tequila and savour bites from Eden East . Baylor Scott & White Health will be on website giving intelligent cooking and medicinal herb demos ! price : $ 15 playfulness : Priceless!RSVP here!Fennel is n’t native , but it ’s mighty tasty to Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly caterpillars ! Pat and Tom Ellison grow this just to get those butterfly beauties . you may see their whole fantastic garden on May 6.When taping at theFestival Beach Community Garden , bees and ladybug were feasting like crazy on annual borage . We , too , can eat the flowers or garnish drinks and harvest immature leaves for salads and to dry out for teas . In my garden , bees are make a beeline for recurrent Brazos ( or Gulf ) penstemon . Gulf Fritillary butterfly took a lunch suspension on my native coneflower ( Echinacea).This week , Andrea DeLong - Amaya from theWildflower Centershows how to slice off a mo of Echinacea origin to boost your resistant system of rules . She and Tom pick a few native plants to wrench into delicious formula . Did you get laid that pink even primula leave-taking are a yummy green?Andrea crafted snapper and Malva sylvestris top out with pink even primrose leave and wild onion ( Allium canadensis ) . They never made it out of the studio!The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center , in collaboration withUT Green Corps , is growing native plants in a farm - style stage setting . DubbedA Taste of Place , get all their recipes online .
At Taste of Place , also find how to scrounge violent plant life and turn into recipe like prickly pear margaritas . My chile pequins have already rebounded from wintertime . When fruit are advanced , I ’m heading to Taste of Place for their chile pequin and wild onion plant cornbread recipe!Watch now!And find fault up your edible aboriginal industrial plant ( for you and wildlife ) at theWildflower Center ’s Spring Saleon April 7 & 8 .
When we taped at theFestival Beach Forestin east Austin last Saturday , we spotted elderberry in bloom . Once its berries form and ripen , people strolling by can pluck a prompt snack . Long ago , I bewilder my first aboriginal Barbados cerise ( Malpighia glabra ) at a glasshouse that jumped on the aboriginal plant bandwagon early . These shrubby trees can embrown up in Zone 8 or 9 winters , but promptly return . I prune them for human body and to keep them in bounds , since they can easily top 6’ . I’ve also got the dwarf , mounding version , Malpighia glabra‘Nana ’ ( or something similar ) that I consider a groundcover . Here ’s one at theTravis County Extension manifestation garden . Barbados cherry is smashing for sun to part shade , producing concurrent flowers for pollinators and fruits for birds and us!And it ’s very drouth tolerant and supposedly deer resistant . Get all of Daphne ’s baksheesh . Sure go for you may skip over by theEast Austin Garden Fairon Saturday , May 8 , where Extension and Master Gardeners will host informational booths and give away plants and seeds . The City of Austin offer gratis soil examination for hazardous materials . Before you banish wild purslane ( Portulaca oleracea ) from your garden , Trisha explains the taste and alimentation that you ’re miss . Watch now!Often , transplanting native plants can be tricky , especially mountain laurels . Perhaps that ’s why they took so long to show up in the glasshouse trade ? WhenJason Wisserin Driftwood transplanted some from around his place , all was perish well until they became chlorotic and startle dropping leaves . Daphne explains what happened : “ Texas mountain laurels are notoriously challenging to transplanting , and the symptom here are classical signaling of transplant electric shock with this bush . ”Find out more .
On tour of duty atAustin Aquaponics , Rob Nash chose aquaponics when he turned granger . For one thing , he lives on bumpy landed estate in Spicewood where regular farming is n’t hardheaded . Aquaponics combines aquaculture — raise fish — and hydroponics — ground - less USDA . He also wanted to conserve water and cater year - turn crop to his customer from his spacious greenhouse . Wife Lacy , a preschool instructor , and daughters acclaim his mission for healthy , local and resourceful food . take in now !
And hey!Come join me atMayfield Park ’s Trial and Error Symposiumon April 1 for great talks , plant life sale and raffle . recover out more . Thanks for quit by ! See you next calendar week , Linda
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