Annual Meeting - Program Schedule
Friday, Sept. 10
8:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. Trade Show Move-in, Hyatt Regency Dallas
11:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Conference Registration Opens
Name badge holders sponsored by Osmocote Plant Food (www.plantersplace.com) and water bottles co-sponsored by Encore Azalea and Southern Living Plant Collection (www.plantdevelopment.com).
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Regional Meetings
Join your regional and national directors and other regional members to discuss current GWA events and to find out what is happening in your region.
2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. First-Timer & Mentor Reception
(1st Time Meeting Attendees Only)
The GWA Annual Symposium is an extremely busy event and having a mentor can be very helpful if this is your 1st time attending. Come meet some long-time GWA Symposia attendees who can give you pointers on how to maximize your meeting experience and opportunities. Sponsored by Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center (www.bulb.com).
3:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Garden Products Information Exhibit Opens
With over 80 booths, the 2010 Garden Products Information Exhibit will be the perfect opportunity to learn about new products and to network with new and old friends. Also, stop by the Garden Writers Association Foundation booth to learn more about the spectacular prize drawings. Camera sponsored by The Davey Tree Expert Company (www.davey.com).
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Reception in Exhibit Hall
The exhibit reception will offer a wine and beer bar.
7:30 p.m. Exhibit Closes; Dinner on your own
Saturday, Sept. 11
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast @ Hyatt Regency
Sustainability: Tending the Garden Called Earth
To restore ecosystems and conserve natural resources and endangered species...does mankind respect nature by simply “leaving it alone?” Or is nature better served with careful human stewardship? Learning lessons from indigenous peoples’ stewardship of the land over the last ten thousand years, can we promote a new human-nature interaction to engender renewal of the spiritual connection between all living things? Presenter: Jan Valentic, Sustainability Officer, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company. Sponsored by ScottsMiracle-Gro (www.scotts.com).
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Keynote Presentation
Social Responsibility with Substance and Style
Kierstin De West is the CEO, co-founder and key strategic and research mind at Conscientious Innovation (www.ci-shift.com), a Vancouver, B.C., consultancy. While developing brand and creative strategies with a keen interest in culture, consumers and their marketplace, Ms. De West saw all indicators were pointing to a cultural shift with consumers making lifestyle and purchasing decisions based on a set of predefined values: integrity and social responsibility.
Ms. De West developed the SHIFT Report which is the most cohesive set of research on people’s attitudes/perceptions/behaviors around sustainability and social responsibility and their impact on lifestyle choices, brand relationships and purchase decisions. She will share insights from the SHIFT Report that are particularly relevant to garden communicators, including:
• What does sustainability mean to consumers?
• Why do we need to see more than “green” in that definition?
• Is sustainability just a passing trend or are we in the midst of a
cultural shift?
Her talk will reveal key findings of CI’s Sustainability Passion Index and discuss a relative newcomer to the gardening lifestyle category: the young substance-and-style consumer, a demographic group that values innovation, creativity and sustainability.
Concurrent Sessions
9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Self-Promotion Panel: Be Your Own Garden
Publishing Brand: How to Take Your Passion to the Bank
Hear from two panelists with lots of experience in different writing/publishing genres. Patricia Lanza, author of Lasagna Gardening and other titles, will discuss how professional networks gave her the confidence to move from being a speaker with a self-published book to a widely published author. Kathy Jentz, creator, publisher and editor of Washington Gardener magazine, will address finding your niche and building a reputation as that topic’s expert. You’ll leave this session feeling empowered to be your own boss as a writer, speaker and expert. Panelists: Kathy Jentz, Washington Gardener Magazine and Patricia Lanza, The Potager/Lasagna Gardening.
Panel: Horticultural Therapy
Listen to uplifting words on what therapy gardens can provide. From future trends in healing and therapeutic gardens to how a garden can help coping with loss, learn how growing our way to health and creating gardens that heal makes sense now and in the future. As sure as sustainable garden practices are rooted in the garden community, sustainable health care is right around the corner. This presentation demonstrates the trend toward incorporating gardens in therapeutic settings for enhanced healing experiences for patients, residents and staff. Join us for touching examples of Mother Nature’s power to restore feelings of optimism in people who are coping with loss. Panelists: EagleSong, RavenCroft Garden and Theresa M. Forte, Forte Garden Design.
iPad Publishing
Join us for a special presentation to discuss the creation of “The Elements” for iPad and address the iBook, electronic publishing software and the present and future opportunities for authors, photographers and designers in this new millennium of publishing. Presenter: TBA, Touch Press, Publisher of “The Elements.”
Concurrent Sessions
10:15 a.m. -11:00 a.m.
Slow and Fast - Two Perspectives on Branding a Book Concept
Slow Gardening™ is hot. So is fast-tracking and using social media. We’ll hear from two authors who branded their creativity into vastly different garden communication platforms. Felder Rushing turned his signature slow gardening into a trademarked brand, with a message of an all-year, all-season, all-senses approach to growing plants and caring for the garden. Hear from Jean Ann Van Krevelen, who collaborated to create Grocery Gardening, which they call the “first social media savvy gardening book.” The team wrote an entire book in 60 days using social media tools and techniques. Panelists: Felder Rushing, syndicated columnist/radio host/author/freelance; and Jean Ann Van Krevelen, Cool Springs Press.
The Gardener’s Guide to Global Warming:
Important Ways to Become Part of the Solution
Join Patty Glick, senior global warming specialist for the National Wildlife Federation, as she highlights the impacts of global warming and climate change across the country, what it means for gardeners and, most importantly, what people can do in their own gardens and communities to be part of the solution. Patty’s informative and compelling presentation is based on her award-winning report by the same title. Moderator: Kirk Brown, Joanne Kostecky Garden Design, Inc. Presenter: Patty Glick, National Wildlife Federation.
The Power of Email Marketing
You’ve received them - those info-packed e-newsletters - from service providers like your dentist and nonprofits urging your support. Learn how you can use this affordable, simple technology to craft and design your own effective e-marketing strategy. Julie Niehoff is a trainer for the Dallas office of Constant Contact, one of the country’s top e-newsletter companies specializing in helping small businesses and individuals get their word out. Julie will outline the steps for building an e-newsletter strategy that markets and promotes your message, events, activities and projects to your audience. Her talk will demonstrate how e-marketing works and highlight some of the simple ways you can maximize this vehicle for yourself. Presenter: Julie Niehoff, regional development director, Constant Contact.
11:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. Final Exhibition Period
Don’t miss the final exhibition period. The exhibit will open with a lunch available for you to enjoy while you continue to network and learn about new and exciting products.
3:45 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden & Dinner
The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical garden was founded in 1984 with the mission to represent the highest standards in horticultural excellence in their displays, offer educational programs to adults and children, and provide research to the horticulture industry. Yearly over 500,000 visitors, including 80,000 school children, visit the 66 acre expanse on the shores of White Rock Lake. The Dallas Arboretum is known nation wide for its garden and special event displays. Each spring the Dallas Blooms Festival finds the garden layered with over 450,000 blooming bulbs and 250,000 annuals, that are transitioned to a summer display. In fall the gardens are adorned with over 40,000 pumpkins, gourds and squash. The Trial Gardens of the Dallas Arboretum have become one of the premiere sites for testing plants in extreme conditions. Each year over 4,000 varieties are entered for evaluation. Tour & dinner sponsored by the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden.
***Join us for a new experience developing an electronic tour for Twitter, Facebook, blog posts and other online media. Bring your computers, PDAs, video & still cameras and participate in creating the ultimate online virtual garden tour.
8:00 p.m. Buses Depart for Hyatt Regency.
Sunday, Sept. 12
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast @ Hyatt Regency
Innovative Ways To Protect Your Lawn and Garden in 2011
For the past 10 years, Bayer Advanced has been the leader in innovative lawn and garden solutions. In 2010, Bayer launched Bayer Advanced Natria – a new line of non-synthetic products with active ingredients such as soybean and canola oil that protect homes, lawns and gardens against pests, weeds and diseases. Many of the Natria products are for organic gardening. Be the first to hear what Bayer has in store for the coming year and hear how they’re taking gardening to a whole new level. Presenter: Ken Kukorowski, Bayer Advanced Head of Product Innovation. Sponsored by Bayer Advanced (www.bayeradvanced.com).
8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Highland Park Private Gardens & Lunch
Today’s private gardens will come closest to matching your impressions of Big D as defined by the iconic television show Dallas. The houses are large and graciously appointed; some would be classified as estates. The gardens fulfill each owner’s expectations of an exotic fantasyland recreated here on the blackland prairie.
Preston Hollow in North Dallas is a neighborhood of large estates along narrow, blacktop roads that wind up and down over creeks and limestone escarpments. You’re invited to step into the realm of the Lord of the Rings, with a moat, hobbit house, castle keep and Edwardian conservatory. The owner, whose imagination and sense of play know no bounds, may even open the doors to her new house and its rooms of wonder. Another stop in this neighborhood transports us to Renaissance Italy, with a sentinel of Italian cypresses juxtaposed with drought-tolerant buffalo turf, 1.8 acres of long views and a series of tightly manicured but lushly planted garden rooms ornamented with classical European antiques.
Highland Park, an island township that is the historic enclave of Dallas superpowers in the worlds of sports, big oil and commerce, is less than five miles from downtown. You’ll visit a tropical island resort with towering palms, hidden nooks and cascading streams; a property whose owners had their house designed around existing large trees and incorporated the newly discovered ruins of garden walls and paths; and promenade along historic Turtle Creek, where the owners have retained the original boathouse.
Concurrent Sessions
12:45 p.m. -1:30 p.m.
The Story Arc: Fiction Techniques Add Momentum to Garden Writing
List articles, round ups, Q&A, slide presentations - many garden writing assignments use an inherently flat structure. One piece of information follows another like railroad boxcars. By borrowing story-telling techniques employed in fiction, any work can be lifted from flat line to memorable. The story arc rises in four phases: inciting incident, rising action, climax and wrap up. Applying the arc to your material gives new power to your writing and evokes a strong audience connection. Find out how easily you can organize your garden information and let your story fly. Presenter: Mary-Kate Mackey, freelance writer; adjunct faculty University of Oregon School of Journalism.
Flickr.com: More Than Pretty Pictures
These days, everyone is trying to do more with less - less time, less money, less everything. For small companies and freelancers, this is especially important. In this session, Kim Taylor will explain how you can tap into the power of Flickr.com, self-described as “the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.” She’ll cover step-by-step tricks for using Flickr as an affordable image management system, and discuss its use as a social networking tool. Presenter: Kim Taylor, University of Florida Communications Specialist.
Horticultural CSI – Uncovering the Dirt on Why Landscape Plants Die
Landscape decline and demise is increasingly common, even in the mildest of climates. Unfortunately, the first sign of a problem is often the appearance of opportunistic pests and disease, which results in unnecessary use of pesticides. This seminar will present a diagnostic approach to discovering the suspected causes behind landscape crimes. You may be surprised to learn that many landscape plants die because of avoidable errors in selecting, transplanting, and maintaining trees and shrubs. Handouts on diagnosing and preventing common cultural problems causing plant decline and demise will be provided. Presenter: Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, WSU Extension Urban Horticulturist.
Concurrent Sessions
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
You, Too, Can Be a TV Star: Videos, YouTube and Webisodes
There’s a huge demand for short-form online content that goes way beyond blogging. Online video opens opportunities for creative people who can go in front of the camera and share their knowledge, enthusiasm and expertise with the world via the Internet. You don’t need a big crew or a big budget to package yourself - and your message - for online viewers. Join television and web personality Shirley Bovshow as she demystifies Web TV and introduces you to examples of online personalities who use garden videos to generate revenue, create a brand and support/promote their other platforms. Learn Shirley’s 5 essentials for on-camera success. Presenter: Shirley Bovshow, Garden World Report.
The Language of Trees: from Ancient History to Present-Day
Three tree experts will join a panel that’s all about trees. Dr. Robert Polomski will share some of the latest findings in arboriculture, including tree selection, tree growth and care. Moderator Eva Monheim, a certified arborist, will discuss the current standards of planting and pruning and the best sources for finding information about tree care in your region. And finally, Grant Jones will present the granddaddy of them all: the “Big Tree” in Texas’s Goose Island State Park - thought to be more than 1,000 years old and once the champion live oak of Texas. Moderator: Eva Monheim, Oak Leaf Productions. Panelists: Grant Jones, The Davey Tree Expert Company and Robert Polomski, Clemson University.
Garden Writer’s Rosetta Stone: Translating Design Into Words
Many garden communicators write authoritatively about plants and gardening, but they may not be conversant in the core principles of garden design. An awareness of the basic precepts of good design, opens the door to a wider range of stories. This session will explain the logical and artistic decisions that result in beautiful, functional, and sustainable gardens. A slide show with commentary, featuring a range of garden styles, and illustrating each of the main design principles: contrast, harmony, form, density, balance, scale, rhythm, repetition, color, etc. The audience is invited to flaunt their newfound mastery of design analysis and description with audience participation. Presenter: Billy Goodnick, freelance writer; landscape architect; educator.
2:45 p.m. Coffee Break
Sponsored by All-American Daylilies (www.daylilyresearch.org).
Concurrent Sessions
3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Panel: From Mega Trends to Garden Trends
Learn what trends are emerging that are expected to drive consumer demand in the outdoor living market. Susan McCoy will team up with Clint Albin to look at emerging garden industry events, topics, services and products for 2011 and beyond. As you discover areas of interest beyond traditional gardening (such as food, pets, and related lifestyle categories), you will be better able to translate that knowledge as a communicator. Included in the talk will be an examination of social media as a vehicle for spreading trends. Panelists: Clint Albin, IGC Show and Susan McCoy, The Garden Media Group.
Make More Money: Writers as Revenue Generators
A lively panel featuring three points of view will help you rethink how you earn an income as a garden communicator. From Patty Craft, we will hear the editor’s perspective. Knowing what challenges editors face on the business side gives writers the chance to develop skills that make them more valuable. Katie Elzer-Peters will discuss different options and opportunities on the horizon for writers including storefront, wholesale and online businesses. Jayme Jenkins will discuss writing opportunities open to people without a traditional journalism background, as well as her advice on “selling” yourself in the new media arena. Moderator: Katie Elzer-Peters, The Garden of Words, LLC. Panelists: Patty Craft, editor, Horticulture Magazine and Jayme Jenkins, aHa! Modern Living (www.ahamodernliving.com).
Using the Power in PowerPoint
This session will focus on specific program functions of MicroSoft PowerPoint® that can be used to power up any simple presentation. This is not an introductory course on the use of computers for presentations, but a challenge to participants to acquire advanced software and presentational skills. There are many bad PowerPoint presentations out in the world. This session will ask audience members to sign a petition to outlaw perpetrators of Boring PowerPoint Presentations, otherwise known as the B3P Initiative. Presenter: Kirk Brown, Joanne Kostecky Garden Design, Inc.
Monday, Sept. 13
6:45 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast & GWA Annual Business Meeting
Join us for breakfast at the Hyatt and the GWA business meeting. Hear the annual report from the Board of Directors. Also, hear about next year’s symposium plans in Indianapolis, Indiana!
8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. East Dallas Private Gardens & Lunch
Old East Dallas is known for its residential historic districts, tree-lined boulevards, resistance to change and appreciation of poor artists and eccentricity. In Dallas’ typical race to tear down and build new, erasing all character and history in the process, many neighborhoods in Old East Dallas have managed to survive intact. It is a district rife with gardeners and is the epicenter of backyard henkeeping.
You’ll wander through a compound outfitted for year-round outdoor living and accessorized with one-of-a-kind, handmade fountains, fonts, fireplaces, sculptures and structures (and maybe you’ll meet the tree-climbing terrier). Another address has a Japanese garden complete with koi, mossy boulders and a tiny teahouse juxtaposed with a newer, tongue-in-cheek “white-trash” garden. On another stop, an 8-acre lot of vantage points, log bridges and creeks holds the precisely restored house designed by the late Texas-modernist hero O’Neil Ford. And you’ll meet the caretaker of one of the first outdoor classrooms in the country at Stonewall Jackson Elementary, where the unique curriculum is becoming a model nationwide for raising environmentally aware generations of children.
The remaining stops on today’s agenda illustrate a garden-maker’s love of Edwardian England and the practical need for using heat- and drought-tolerant plant materials. You’ll also see how the long season of heat and high humidity is addressed by a landscape architect at his own home. There’s water everywhere, from iron cattle troughs, fountains and a simple, sublime wading pool to an underground cistern installed at the site’s lowest point to catch every drop of rainwater. Lunch sponsored by Fiskars (www.fiskars.com).
Concurrent Sessions
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Planting, Growing and Evaluating Your Social Media Network
Three panelists bring diverse experience to the topic of social media and how it works for you. John Riutta will touch on maintaining a social media presence via a blog, Facebook, Twitter and other “Web 2.0” platforms. Marta Maria Garcia of Costa Farms will discuss social media as a personal brand-promotion tool. She will share secrets of the how and why of etiquette and successful social media efforts. Moderator Dawn Hummel will address measuring and tracking strategies of a social media campaign. Moderator: Dawn Hummel, BeeDazzled Gardens. Panelists: Marta Maria Garcia, Costa Farms and John Riutta, www.wellreadnaturalist.com and www.jriutta.com.
A New Era: Connecting With Today’s Garden Consumer
Technology and social networking are dramatically impacting how we receive, process and respond to information. Three panelists will help us navigate the landscape of social technology and changing consumer behavior. Bill Calkins will summarize key findings from his company’s recent major study of purchase patterns and consumer attitudes related to gardening. Jim Freman will discuss ways to bring together gardeners from two ends of the demographic spectrum. Moderator Cliff Sharples will address the changing information landscape from the consumer’s perspective. Moderator: Cliff Sharples, www.DigtheDirt.com. Panelists: Bill Calkins, Ball Horticultural Company and Jim Freman, Dean Street Orchids.
Passionate Relevance Makes the Difference
Garden consumers get excited when they make a connection with dynamic sources of new plants and the stories of growers who share their passion and love of plants. One of the best ways this plant-gardener matchmaking occurs is through writers, broadcasters, editors and columnists. Plantswoman Alice Doyle maintains that no matter how many varieties of plants there are, she can always learn and discover something new about them. Alice will share decades of examples that illustrate how she has teamed up with garden communicators to spread the stories that inspire customers to garden, try new plants and experiment with new cultivars of old favorites. Presenter: Alice Doyle, Log House Plants.
Concurrent Sessions
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Radio Panel: Planting on the Airwaves
Whether you’re interested in being a radio host or guest, here’s a chance to hear from two radio personalities about the ins and outs of this powerful medium. Kathy Cropp, producer and co-host of a 3-year-old show, will discuss starting, producing and maintaining a garden radio program. Bob Tanem, who has logged no fewer than 837 radio interviews, will discuss on-air interviews from two perspectives: as host and as guest, how to prepare and what to do when you’re “live” and on air. Panelists: Kathy Cropp, producer/co-host of “Here’s the Dirt,” a program of Danville (Virginia) Master Gardeners (WTBM 1330AM) and Bob Tanem, host of San Francisco’s popular Sunday morning show, “Bob Tanem in the Garden” (KSFO 560 AM).
How to Make Your Pictures Tell Stories Others Will Crave
Making boring pictures is easy. Making pictures that help set the table for a story, and that consistently elicit ooohs and ahhhs, now that is magical. But like most magic tricks, it is something that can be learned, practiced and improved upon with stunning results. Through carefully chosen examples, we will examine ways to quickly assess a new location and then identify those visual “poems” that really want to be gleaned from it. We will discuss emotion and gesture, and metaphor as essential elements of compelling pictures, and show examples of how visual “adjectives and adverbs” may be enhanced within an image. We’ll see the same scene shot “boring” and then “poetically”, with the very same camera. Presenter: David Perry, David Perry Photographer.
Panel: New Approaches to Growing Edibles
Creating beautiful gardens that produce an abundance of edible crops is all the rage. Our panelists will present some of the freshest ideas we’ve seen at the forefront of the edible craze. Kenneth Brown discusses novel ways to grow vegetables vertically; Sydney Park Brown will cover the numerous ways people can grow vegetables without having to dig up their backyards; and Nan Chase explores designing with ornamental edibles. Moderator Cathy Wilkinson Barash introduces some of the best blooms for gardeners and cooks alike. Moderator and Panelist: Cathy Wilkinson Barash, freelance. Panelists: Kenneth Brown, www.gardening-enjoyed.com; Sydney Park Brown, University of Florida Extension and Nan Chase, freelance writer.
4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
Concurrent Sessions
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Punch Up Your Photos With Lightroom
Do your digital photos look dull and lifeless straight out of the camera, regardless of how good your camera technique is? Did you know you could make them pop, print better on a four-color press or desktop inkjet, and stand out among the sea of images in the garden blogosphere with just a handful of tweaks in Adobe Lightroom? Come along for a quick demonstration of basic tools to quickly and efficiently enhance your photos before you let them out the door. Lightroom adjustments are no substitute for good lighting, exposure and composition. However, a little post-processing will improve most digital photos. Presenter: Mark Turner, Turner Photographics.
Intermediate Word Press Skills for Online Publishing
This presentation will help members currently using WordPress on their own hosting (that is, they are NOT using WordPress.com) get the most from little-known or under-utilized features of WordPress. Topics covered include improved security, better use of image handling features, tips on tweaking the theme, and rudimentary search engine optimization. Attendees will be presumed to already know how to write and publish a post and install plug-ins. Presenter: Kathy Purdy, www.ColdClimateGardening.com.
Those Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes: Texas’ Horticultural Heroines
Throughout the early part of the 20th century, a network of explorers and researchers made unique impacts on America’s horticultural legacy. Many of their illustrated field guides and gardening columns are no longer in print, but their historical value remains active due to their quests to inform the public based on firsthand research. This is a look at the lives and works of key women and their accomplishments. The stories of Ellen Dorothy Schulz Quillin, Caroline Dormon, Eula Whitehouse, Nancy Ranson Richey and more will be explored throughout this session of Texas heroines. Presenter: Elizabeth Cernota Clark, Texas State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Awards Reception and Banquet @ Union Station
Union Station is the perfect setting for the 2010 Garden Media Awards presentation and Honors Ceremony. Join us for an evening of networking, friendship, and celebration as we congratulate and honor our colleagues.
9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Awards & Honors Green Room
Join Garden Word Report and other interested media outlets to conduct post-banquet interviews with GWA Honorees and Award recipients.
9:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. Karaoke
Come sing and dance at the final get-together.
Sponsored by Natural Industries (www.naturalindustries.com).
Tuesday, Sept. 14
OPTIONAL BUS TOURS:
*Limited Availability
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Tour Option 1: Oak Cliff Private Garden Tour ($25)
Take a half day to tour a series of individualistic gardens in Oak Cliff, a current lifestyle hotspot south of the Trinity River. It’s a cyclist’s Mecca, where shopkeepers give discounts if you pedal rather than drive, and where community gardens, local food and a simpler life thrive. You’ll see landscapes inspired by Bali, with a meditation hut and the wafting essence of incense, and St. Tropez, complete with steep hillsides and blowsy hortensias. There’s also a series of simple, serene, low-care Modernist sites, designed by a young landscape architect who’s already racking up national awards.
8:00 a.m. - 5:00p.m. Tour Option 2: Fort Worth Garden Tour ($40)
Just 30 minutes away, Fort Worth is truly where the West begins. We will start our day at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (www.fwbg.org), the oldest in Texas. The early design centered around a rose garden patterned after the long vistas at Versailles. The rose garden is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Over the years, expansions brought a Japanese garden, a popular stop in spring for cherry blossoms and in fall for the brilliant foliage of large Japanese maples, and the Texas Native Forest Boardwalk, a thousand-foot-long structure that elevates the visitor as much as 10 feet off the forest floor. After lunch in the pavilion overlooking the vast park, we’ll visit three private gardens that illustrate the landscaping diversity of the region. English formal gardens, dry-stacked stone walls and dramatic vistas created in the 1930s is first, followed by two newer properties whose grounds are designed and planted with the natural Texas landscape and problematic soil and climate in mind.
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