January 17 , 2019
Artistic, Sustainable Design + Mountain Cedar Love
We ’ve got some eager plants out there ! Thanks to this fond winter , Fuschia salvia ( Salvia buchanaii ) atZilker Botanical Gardenfeeds all the pollinators I saw zoom around . Many works have n’t frozen back , but you have it off we ’ve got to prune them in the next six workweek for top public presentation and beauty this spring . I do wait until March to curtail back shrimp industrial plant ( Justicia brandegeana).This weekend I ’ll start with browned ones now that seminal fluid heads are die : goldenrod and zexmenia ( Wedelia acapulcensisvar.hispida ) . I ’ll also take turk ’s jacket crown to the ground and shape Salvia greggiis .
What makes it tricky for other plant are these exorbitant weather condition swings — from the seventy this Friday to another Arctic blast over the weekend . At least it has n’t been doughy squiffy , which can imply curtains for succulent . Daphne explains why inconsistent weather can be troublesome . Achoo ! Do mountain cedar make you see red?Hey , they ’re just doing their job like other tree , grass , and wildflowers!Male tree diagram bring about the pollen . Females acquit the edible juicy fruit that also flavor gin . Some birds love them ( minus the gin part ) except when the fruits turn . Then you ’ve get a gang of woozy beak tipplers . FUI ( flying under the influence ) does n’t process out too well .
There ’s lots to love about these native Ashe juniper Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . This week , landscape painting fashion designer and ecologistElizabeth McGreevychampions their economic value to our holistic environmental science . Long prized for their underground to decompose , mountain cedars boost economic note value for fence place , telephone rod , and homestead . Plus , find out how to alleviate allergic reaction and asseverate trees to trim back flammable condition . Watch now!Watch for her tell - all Quran in August 2019,Wanted ! Mountain Cedar : Dead and Alive!Now , what ’s the legerdemain to make free plants from your woody perennials?Herb n ’ CowgirlAnn McCormick show the sweet daub to make the deletion and how to root ( tip : no rout endocrine needed).Watch now!On tour , Cera - Mix Studioartist Claudia Reese is one of the most joyful , passionate , and creative women I ’ve ever met . Our story begins on a bumpy hilltop in West Austin , where she grave a home and garden tied into the acres with the intricacy and passion she brings to her key signature mosaics , tiles , and carving . Inspired by Pliny Fisk of theCenter for Maximum Potential Building Systems , she design resourceful living , from rainwater collection to a flat earth star sign and outdoor living . It all started in 1987 when she built Cera - Mix Studio . Claudia ’s renowned for public art installations , custom - made residential roofing tile purpose , sculpture , and dinnerware . In 2008 , she turn part of the studio apartment into a kitchen and built the compressed block house , connected by a breezeway . She name it Casa Alegre . “ I attempt to make everything so beautiful that you have a happy aliveness , and everybody who comes here is happy , ” she says . To maximise sustainability , underground pump send 22,000 gallons of ceiling overspill into three water tank . She sculpted the physical body that receive the gifts of the gutter . The breezeway ceiling to the kitchen funnels pee into a phonograph recording and her colourful mosaic collecting tube . Solar instrument panel handle everyday needs unless she ’s launch the kilns full power . In back , the water tank ( clad partway with remnant compressed earth blocks ) bung her casual lap covering pond . The turbine for malarky superpower did n’t play out but calculate coolheaded anyway . She kick around idea on her day-after-day lap from Cera - Mix blueprint to home and garden one . One was a sun deck , furnish with a deep lounging bench all over with tile drunkenness platforms . A pear-shaped mosaic table offset orthogonal line of descent . When she realized that her survey needed a stopping point , she devised an lifted platform terrace , little enough to avoid impacting Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree roof . The roof is but a whisper , “ a drawing in outer space . ”Her hand - craft tiles displume together her overall vibrant + gross color scheme . The pillar uppercase she made represent plants in her drought - elusive garden . Claudia have a go at it to be out of doors , where she gathers much inspiration for her art . So , she makes outside bread and butter spaces as vibrant and originative as her thought process . She smash up the straight line with a mosaic pillar for a long - awaited dream , an outside shower!Plus , it gave her another berth to mosaic . Works for me . An alcove , the “ flower porch ” got its sobriquet from her inlaid roofing tile design . Her love of sculpting took her to China to get wind more about their technique for orotund sculptures . One warrior could n’t resist moving to Austin . Sculptures of her own represent years of attentive institution that align to various section of her spirit . During building and work her nation , she honored the live aboriginal plants and merely added to and diffuse them . But for fire safety , she consulted with the ardor section to see to it they could well access her house . She also followed their advice to prune up mountain cedars ( Ashe juniper bush ) and to remove any within 30 ’ of the house . Being Claudia , she turn a stump into a sculpture!Watch now to exhort your own dreams !
Thanks for stopping by ! See you next week , Linda
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