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Come tour my garden on Central Texas Gardener

This Saturday, Austin area gardeners can come “tour” my garden by watching Central Texas Gardener on KLRU, PBS at 12:00 and at 4:00.

For those of you not lucky enough to live in Austin, you can join in on the fun by watching it online at

http://www.klru.org/ctg/episode/date/2_20_2010

It was so fun to shoot this episode with Linda and her crew at CTG, who did a great job with me and the garden. They put me right at ease and spent a long time getting to know my garden.

It was a very windy and warm late October morning. The garden had begun its recovery from the drought after several good rains helped us turn the corner.

Enjoy the tour!

By Diana C. Kirby|2019-07-15T19:14:18-05:00February 19th, 2010|Blog, CTG, garden tour, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments

We did it…now we wait…

Yesterday, Linda Lehmusvirta, the producer for PBS’ Central Texas Gardener, and her crew came to film the garden and to interview me.

It was a dark and stormy night, no, wait, it was a gray, humid and blustery day. It made for good lighting to shoot the garden, but I ended up eating my hair more than once during the interview!

Linda and her crew did a great job of putting me at ease, and I really felt like I was just chatting about my garden with a fellow gardener. If we’re lucky, that’s what I sounded like.

Four hours later, we were done. The program will air in the Spring, most likely in February, and the video will be available on their website as the Featured Garden, so anyone can watch it on the web.

Since they are such a part of my gardening (the challenges part!), Tanner and Dakota may even be in the footage. They came out to check it all out after we were done with the interview.

Thanks to Linda and the crew for a great morning, indulging me in my passion for gardening.

By Diana C. Kirby|2016-04-14T02:42:39-05:00October 9th, 2009|Blog, CTG, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments

Picking, pruning, pulling … and miles of fire ants

Again? Seriously?

Yes, after I re-re-replanted those Agapanthus, Dakota snuck back in there and pulled them all out again yesterday.

So, as part of my prepping for the Central Texas Gardener t.v. taping here this Thursday, I had to go clean it all up again. And replant them — again.

Then I stepped outside this evening and found a found-lane highway of fire ants racing across my beds, my driveway, down the river rock bed into another flower bed.

No lie – I counted it off, they went 100 feet. And they were in a real hurry. I couldn’t figure out the source at either end and they were going both ways. One bit me before I figured out they were fire ants. It was an amazing, and frightening sight.

So, tomorrow = more pulling and pruning and picking. Most of it is done, but you know, there are always just a few more things you’d like to do … At least I have no plans to rush out to a nursery for any last-minute planting. Now THAT would be nuts!

By Diana C. Kirby|2016-04-14T02:42:39-05:00October 6th, 2009|Agapanthus, Blog, CTG, Dakota, fire ants, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments

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Come tour my garden on Central Texas Gardener

We did it…now we wait…

Picking, pruning, pulling … and miles of fire ants

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