Backyard Native Plant Pocket Prairie: John Hart Asher & Bonnie Evridge
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- A backyard once home to invasive plants and energetic weeds now hosts countless wildlife eager to nectar and feed on native perennials, wildflowers, and grasses. Even though it meant backbreaking digging and lots of soil restoration, a native plant micro-prairie was paramount to John Hart Asher and Bonnie Evridge. After all, John Hart restores prairies as an environmental designer for the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and Bonnie works for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in their air permits division program. Their creative design includes a bisecting boardwalk that leads to organic vegetables, rain collection, and chicken coop. For their young son and dogs, they included shady, comfy playgrounds. Then they added a native fish pond where birds come to drink every day. Working with Thoughtbarn Architects, their top-rated LEED home respects and connects to the land that greets them morning and night. Note: The plant labeled "Three Awn" is
"Green Sprangletop."
Natives rock! You rock!
WOW. amazing
Sharing same thoughts .
People always afraid of venomous creatures showing up and reclaim territory when a habitat has been restore .... well all of them are welcome to keep a balanced , venomous and non venomous is always a risk to take , when you pick a couple of venomous snakes and relocate properly .
I love the raised wooden pathway , it helps to walk safely and comfortably and enjoy the view of the little prairie .
A lovely and inviting backyard where you can seat and relax .
Wonderful garden!!! Can you talk more about your pond? Would you be able to share the design and installation? Many thanks. I feel very inspired by the video.
Love your prairie and boardwalk. ❤
Good stuff! I grow native plants and have a pond as well.
John Fahey in the background is a nice touch.
I’m proud to live on the blackland prairie and want to plant all native species to my yard and eventually remove all nonnative species.
Beautiful! Congrats.
Thank you!
How lovely!
Native fish 🤘🏼
NANFA member?
Chub suckers, Topminnow, bullhead, select Lepomis or small centrarchid . Idk what species are near you but
Where did he get the rainwater cisterns?
My neighbors built a pond like that in their backyard and stocked it with fish, but unfortunately it was a little too successful in attracting wildlife---it attracted a heron who ate all the fish!
Of course he has much more land than the average home-owner, but nevertheless his point is true. I let the St. Augustine in my backyard die, and I'm going to go with this pocket prairie idea
Nice Garden! Don’t you have a crawl space underneath the walkway? The snakes thank you!
The snakes are sunbathing 😂 they appreciate the path
Bummer they put those steep sides on the pond- hard for critters get in and more importantly- back out. Neat place otherwise.
If you just left your yard alone, it would turn into this. I know. I neglected my yard and it turned into this without effort. I really don’t value it. It looks bad. But I know it’s good for the land. But i still mow it down.