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Identify the busy bees in your garden, their clever tricks, ... Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 621 seconds Identify the busy bees in your garden, their clever tricks, and how to protect them with Beekeeper and Pollination Strategist Kellan Vincent. He and Tom Spencer also explain what's behind colony collapse and how we can help. |
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Why fall-blooming plants flowered early|Daphne Richards|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 253 seconds Daphne answers: why are fall-blooming plants flowering in spring? Her pick of the week is native perennial hibiscus, Texas Star hibiscus, a pollinator draw and brilliant stand-out in hot weather. |
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Succulent plant toolkit|Jeff Pavlat|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 229 seconds Agaves, yuccas, cacti and other spiky plants need a little special handling to avoid ouches! Jeff Pavlat from the Austin Cactus & Succulent Society shows off his handy toolkit to tend spiky plants?cleaning, pruning, and lifting from flats. |
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50th birthday photobooth Posted by: KLRU
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50th Birthday party celebration Posted by: KLRU
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Growing gourds|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 612 seconds Grow up with gourds for flowers to attract pollinators, screen a fence, and make birdhouses, luffa sponges, and artful containers. Tom Spencer meets with Suzanne Haffey from the Capital of Texas Gourd Patch/Texas Gourd Society and Charlotte Yeisley from Diamond Y Farm in Smithville to show how to grow and craft with these historic plants. |
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Pruning spring plants|Daphne Richards|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 220 seconds The first rush of spring is over. What should we prune to encourage new growth? Daphne explains what to do and how to fertilize. Her pick of the week is Mexican honeysuckle, a shade-loving perennial related to shrimp plant. Perfect to attract hummingbirds to your dry shady garden! And it's deer resistant! |
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How to attract butterflies|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 183 seconds Lyda Guz from The Natural Gardener shows how to attract a bevy of butterflies with larval host plants and nectaring flowers, including perennials and annuals. She illustrates a simple puddling dish to provide water. |
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Wildflower Center Gardens on Tour 2012|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 530 seconds Preview the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's Gardens on Tour for native plant and design ideas. Host Tom Spencer and Andrea DeLong-Amaya from the Wildflower Center illustrate concepts for drought tough design with native plants. |
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Central Texas Gardener|May 5, 2012 Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 1607 seconds Preview the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's Gardens on Tour for native plant and design ideas. On tour, see how Lynne and Jim Weber captivate wildlife in their small garden all year long. Daphne analyzes why a native winecup is dying from the center. Pick of the week is stunning summer annual, Celosia spictata 'Flamingo Feather'. John Dromgoole picks the right mulch for your plants. |
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Giant celosia|Daphne Richards|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 229 seconds Want dramatic hot weather color? Daphe's Pick of the Week is stunning summer annual, Celosia spictata 'Flamingo Feather'. It's "wheatstraw" flower heads also make great cut flowers for indoor arrangements. Question of the week is why native winecup plants are dying from the center. Find out what's going on. |
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Pick the right mulch|John Dromgoole|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 272 seconds Mulch is good. It holds in soil moisture, fends off weeds, and protects plant leaves from soil-borne fungi. But which one should you pick? John Dromgoole from The Natural Gardener picks the right mulch for your plants, including shredded wood, pine straw, compost, stone, and decomposed granite. |
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Texas Superstar Plants|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 587 seconds Find out what it takes to be a Texas Superstar plant! Tom Spencer and Brent Pemberton from Texas A&M, Texas AgriLife Research pick out a few that stood up to tough testing, like in your garden! |
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Sterilizing plant pots|Daphne Richards|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 232 seconds How should you clean and sterilize your plant pots and black plastic six-packs to start new plants? Get Daphne's answer. Pick of the week: drought tough Texas sage (cenizo), a shrub that brings on the butterflies when it flowers in high humidity. |
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Dividing & potting plants|Trisha Shirey|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 270 seconds See how to divide your overcrowded container plants or new ones from the nursery. Trisha Shirey also explains how to clean and sterilize your old containers to plant again. She explains how to sterilize and amend old potting soil and how to keep ants out of your pots. You can also start vegetable plants in containers to get them ready until winter crops are finished. |
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Butterfly garden design|Bulverde/Spring Branch Library| Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 437 seconds Butterflies, birds, and other wildlife greet patrons of the Bulverde/Spring Branch Library, who check out more than books these days. Thanks to the Comal County Master Gardeners and Friends of the Library, a rocky slope at the end of the parking lot is now an instructional guide to gardening and wildlife, plus an outdoor haven to read a book! |
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KLRU Community Cinema: Strong 5/1/2012 Posted by: KLRU
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KLRU Spark Speaker Series Education in America 4/24/2012 Posted by: KLRU
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Open Meetings 2012 Posted by: KLRU
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Susan Orlean|The Orchid Thief|Central Texas Gardener Posted by: KLRU
Video duration: 608 seconds Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Orchid Thief, chronicles her journalistic exploration into the fascinating world of orchids. |
