Learn how to pick the right plants with Austin designer Mark Word

January 30, 2023

Backyard Spark, my backyard design speaker collection, concludes its profitable sixth season on Feb. 23 with a presentation by acclaimed Austin designer Mark Phrase, Director of Word + Carr Design Group. Mark will present us how to consider and select profitable plant combos for our gardens. For a enjoyable twist, he is utilizing a baseball fantasy metaphor to speak about plant choice. Hit it!

For these like me, who know little about sports activities, not to mention unbelievable baseball, I assure that the problem is solely selecting the perfect squad of gamers to your imaginary group — or on this case, the perfect squad of crops to your imaginary (or not so imaginary) backyard.

So put in your supervisor cap, get your ticket, and be part of us on February twenty third to study extra about plant choice from certainly one of Austin’s main designers. Seats are very restricted and tickets can be purchased here.

You may study extra about Mark in an article I wrote about him for backyard venture.

Costumes, baseball and plant choice

Selecting the “proper” crops to your backyard means wanting past the fundamentals of perform, upkeep and web site adaptability. Sentimentality, appropriateness, neighborhood tradition and angle additionally come into play. Austin designer Mark Phrase explores the methods we will create profitable gardens and not using a statistics-based method.

speaker biography

Mark Phrase’s curiosity in artwork, graphic design and botany led to a 35-year profession designing business and residential landscapes. The work of his Austin-based firm, Word + Carr Design Groupis centered on the creation of locations and is understood for its sensitivity to regional character.

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going deeper

Come find out about backyard design with the specialists at backyard spark! I personally host talking engagements with inspiring designers, panorama architects, and authors just a few instances a 12 months in Austin. These are restricted attendance occasions that promote out shortly, so be certain to enroll in the Backyard Spark e-mail listing to be notified prematurely. Simply click on on this hyperlink and ask to be added. Yow will discover this 12 months’s lineup of audio system right here.

Make plans to attend Sale and festival of sprouting plants on March 18 at John Fairey Backyard in Hempstead, Texas. Uncommon and distinctive crops shall be supplied, in addition to artwork, ceramics, jewellery, meals, drink, music and different leisure for the entire household. Members have early entry and may be part of totally free. Admission for non-members prices R$5. Youngsters as much as 12 years previous are free.

strive the Surreal Garden at Zilker Botanical Garden, a fascinating neon artwork show all through the gardens, that includes foods and drinks, music and dancing, surreal performers and interactive artwork sculptures. Surreal fantasies inspired! 25% of occasion proceeds profit the Zilker Botanical Backyard Conservancy. It takes place on April 6 (VIP Night time), April 7-8 and April 13-15, from 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm.

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