A curbside garden for pollinators and all-year interest

Yellow sulphur butterflies flitted among zexmenia (Wedelia hispida) flowers past evening successful this curbside plot successful Austin’s Tarrytown neighborhood. Yellow connected yellow!

Honeybees joined the pollinator enactment too.

Behind each the activity, an architectural whale’s lingua agave (Agave ovatifolia) made a powder-blue backdrop.

What a quality of a whale! And wow, isn’t that zexmenia blooming early?

Another sulphur

And past there’s this: starbursts of large bluish nolinas (Nolina nelsonii). How did these atrocious boys past our past fewer winters, which melted excavation to mush? I’m truthful jealous.

There’s a batch to respect successful this curbside garden: drought-tolerant, architectural plants for year-round interest, pollinator-attracting flowers, grasses for movement, and place-setting limestone boulders that assistance with drainage and acceptable disconnected the plants to perfection.

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April 6: Come retired to Austin’s Mayfield Park connected 4/6 for the Mayfield Park Gardening Symposium & Fundraiser, 8:30 to 11 am. This yearly payment for the parkland includes a raffle, works sale, and plot speakers.

May 4: Explore “brilliant backyards, cleanable pools and pergolas, and outdoor rooms and gardens” connected the ATX Outdoor Living Tour connected 5/4, 10 americium to 3 pm. Landscape architects, designers, and builders volition beryllium connected manus to reply questions. Tickets are $33.85 for adults, $17.85 for kids property 10-17.

May 11: Save the day for Austin Home’s Great Outdoors Tour on 5/11.

May 18: Pop up to Dallas for the 2024 DCMGA Garden Tour connected 5/18 from 10 americium to 5 pm. Tickets are $18 if purchased online prior to 6 p.m. on 5/17, oregon $22 aft 6 p.m. connected 5/17 oregon astatine the event. For a sneak peek, click here.

June 1-2: Take a self-guided, 2-day circuit of ponds and gardens successful and astir Austin connected the yearly Austin Pond and Garden Tour, held 6/1 and 6/2, 9 americium to 5 pm. Tickets are $20 to $25.

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