Earth-Kind Garden

The Earth-Kind section of our demonstration garden highlights the principles created by Texas A&M AgriLife horticulturalists who designate plants that fit well in the soil, rain and climate in central Texas. Many are native plants; others have adapted to local conditions. These plants conserve water and don’t need much, if any fertilizer. They create beauty and need little care. We can compost their dead leaves back into the soil instead of hauling them to the dump. It’s a big advantage to conserve energy and protect our environment.

You see the Earth-Kind garden on the west side of whole garden, along E. 22nd Ave. It stretches south to north and includes a brick retaining wall on it’s east side, near the gazebo. It’s soil surface slopes toward the west for drainage. It’s water system is underground and low maintenance. The next thing you’ll notice is that there’s an east sunny side and a west shady side, under the trees. So it’s perennial shrubs and flowers were placed to demonstrate how much light the plant likes. An exception would be the yucca plants in the west shade. They do well in total sunshine.

Plants