Jennifer Jewell’s Garden Spark talk sows seeds of garden inspiration

What an evening for the gardening assemblage past nighttime successful Austin! I was truthful pleased to big Jennifer Jewell, the creator, writer, and big of acclaimed podcast Cultivating Place: Conversations connected Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden, arsenic the kickoff talker for Season 8 of Garden Spark.

Jennifer presented “What We Sow” earlier a sold-out assemblage nether the large unrecorded oak astatine Barton Springs Nursery, the generous sponsor of Garden Spark’s autumn talks.

Using the lens of seeds, Jennifer reminded america wherefore gardening matters and however each of america makes a quality successful the satellite done tending gardens and sowing seeds some carnal and metaphorical.

Read her fascinating publication What We Sow for a wide-ranging yet personally insightful exploration of seeds and their interaction connected america — and however we’ve impacted them. I’ve truly enjoyed her different 2 books arsenic well, Under Western Skies and The Earth successful Her Hands.

Huge acknowledgment to Jennifer for her thought-provoking speech and to Barton Springs Nursery for creating a lukewarm and magical gathering place. Pictured above: me, Amy Hovis (BSN co-owner), Zander Caruso (BSN works pro), Jennifer Jewell, and Greg Thomas (BSN co-owner).

And I’m truthful appreciative of everyone who took the clip to travel retired and beryllium portion of our thinking-gardener community!

Next talk

Mark your calendars for the adjacent speech connected Thursday, November 14th. Michael McDowell, amended known arsenic the Plano Prairie Gardener, volition beryllium successful the house! I’ve admired Michael’s homegrown prairie plot successful the ‘burbs for much than a decennary and person photographed it respective times: here, here, and here. I’m besides featuring it successful my forthcoming publication astir Texas gardens (due retired successful Fall 2025). Michael’s speech is called “Lawn Free: How I Transformed My Lawn into a Prairie Garden”:

“Why settee for a boring, thirsty tract erstwhile you tin make a dynamic prairie plot that changes with the seasons and benefits the environment? That’s precisely what Michael McDowell thought erstwhile helium acceptable retired to make his Plano prairie plot successful the suburbs 20 miles northbound of Dallas. Michael volition amusement however helium transformed his gait from a lawn-dominant scenery to a lawn-free prairie plot and however his imaginativeness continues to germinate arsenic helium and the plot mature. He’ll stock his tips for gardening connected a fund (hint: propagation and patience), explicate however he’s stayed connected bully presumption with neighbors and disconnected the radar of spot standards officers, and amusement however resilient prairie plants are successful spite of utmost upwind and different challenges.”

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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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