Limestone & Water:
Plants, Design and Inspiration for the Texas Garden

Cosponsored by Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas at Austin

Austin is such a terrific place in which to garden! Four garden design experts share their experience with innovative design in a hot climate. If you aren’t lucky enough to live in Austin but live and garden elsewhere in a dryer climate, this seminar applies to you too!

SEMINAR TIME AND LOCATION:
Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. | Seminar begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX

SEMINAR TOPICS AND SPEAKERS:

Smarter Gardens: gardening with less but getting more
Stephen Orr, garden writer, NYC
Stephen identifies a new revolution in garden design that treats gardens not as resource guzzlers—water, labor, materials, energy—but as conserving and graceful places in which to live and rest year ‘round.

Plant Driven Design: honoring plants, place, and spirit
Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden, garden designers, Austin/Fort Collins, CO
By putting plants first, the Ogdens empower gardeners to design and designers to plant, while creating a powerful connection between place, plants, and people. Authors of Plant-Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants Place, and Spirit (Timber Press, Oct 2008)

Outside You Can Live In
Dylan Crain Robertson, D-Crain design and construction, Austin
Big Red Sun co-founder Dylan Robertson crafts and maintains elegantly functional outdoor living spaces that include sophisticated built environments and sensitive plantings.

See Speaker Abstracts and Bios Limestone & Water

Associated Events:

Friday, October 30 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Evening Garden Reception
Kick off the program with refreshments, wine and good conversation at the nationally recognized home and garden of James David & Gary Peese in Austin.
Open to Limestone & Water seminar participants (10/31/09) and their guests ($35 per person).

Saturday, October 31 | 2 p.m.
Special tour of the Wildflower Garden Center gardens for seminar registrants only (free, pre-registration requested).
After the seminar, enjoy a picnic on site or purchase lunch at the Wildflower Café before your tour of the gardens.

Register Online
Download Registration Form
or call 415/441-4300

REGISTRATION FEES:
Call 415/441-4300 for sliding-scale rates.

Fee for Saturday Seminar (includes morning refeshments):
$65 Garden Conservancy/Wildflower Center members
$75 general admission
$40 students (must present current ID at door)

Fee for Friday Reception
$35 admission (seminar registrants and their guests only)

Register Online
Download Registration Form
or call 415/441-4300
Directions for online registration to Friday reception or Saturday garden tour of Wildflower Center: please “submit” seminar event to the online shopping cart. After submitting the seminar, “continue shopping” until you have submitted reception and/or free tour events. Then you are ready to check out.
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LOGISTICS:
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, 4801 La Crosse Ave, Austin, TX 78739

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