Hurry! Sign Up for Herb Gardening Class
|
Which one of the plants below is basil? Trick question. They all are! One of the things that I will be covering in tomorrow night's North Texas Herb Gardening class is all the different ways that you can utilize easy-to-grow herbs in your garden. Basil, for example, is just as pretty as it is tasty, and can be planted among your existing perennial flowers. There are more than 100 different cultivars of basil to choose from. Here's what else you will learn tomorrow:
NORTH TEXAS HERB GARDENING: CULTIVATE, COOK AND CREATE, $22 Learn how to plant and care for an herb garden, which herbs thrive in our challenging climate, and how to use these herbs to make your own unique herbal recipes, drinks, and bath products. |
The Dallas Garden School
Education and inspiration for the modern Texas gardener.
Happy Friday, DGS’ers! It’s hard to believe that May is already here. Many of you are already starting to harvest tomatoes, and it won’t be long until our gardens will be looking their absolute best in June (right before the heat hammer drops). Here’s what I’ve been working on and my plans for this weekend: Tomorrow morning, I’m hosting a “Backyard Flower Farm” class to share techniques used by professional growers to produce oodles and oodles of beautiful cut flowers. Whether you just want...
Growing cut flowers is magical. Learn pro techniques for farm-style production in a small space. If you've taken a class with me before, you know that part of my garden success formula is borrowing techniques from sustainable, commercial agriculture in order to achieve impressive results in the home garden. This Saturday, I will teach you how to create a mini flower farm in your own backyard by using professional growing methods. Whether you're growing them for yourself, to give away to...
My mini flower farm in full bloom. Two weeks ago, Debra Prinzing of Slow Flowers taught a wonderful class for us about how to create backyard destinations based on her book "Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways". (If you missed this incredibly inspiring class, you can get the replay here.) In response to the fact that 80 percent of cut flowers sold in the U.S. are imported from other countries and continents — devouring resources like jet fuel, packaging material, and water — Debra started...