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Fall Classes at Hill Country Water Gardens & Nursery
September 5th - (time TBA) Fall Veggie Gardening - Jay White, Texas Gardener Magazine
September 12th - (time TBA) Central Texas Natives - Calvin King, Native Landscape Supervisor for the City of Kyle
September 19th -(time TBA) I LOVE Trees! - Alan Sodek, Nursery Manager at HCWG
September 26th (Two great classes! times TBA)
#1 Milkweed Germination Workshop* - Sonia Koschoreck, Monarch Sanctuary Project
#2 Plumeria & Desert Roses - Destin Noak, Texas Garden Guy
Stay tuned! Popup Classes & Workshops will be announced asap!
Our classes and workshops are held here at the nursery:
1407 N. Bell Blvd. Cedar Park, TX 78613
All classes are free to the public and trade professionals! No RSVP needed. Bring a friend, a coffee, and a notebook! Pets on a leash are always welcome. This includes birds!
*Workshops may require a fee, and we may limit attendance. We’ll have all the details posted asap for these events.
Join us Saturday, July 25th at 10 am for a free seminar on how to build a unique disappearing water feature! Hill Country Water Gardens owner Steve Kainer will host this laid-back discussion to share inspirational and informative tips and tricks he's learned over the last 27 years! DIYers, landscape designers, landscapers, beekeepers, birders (birds LOVE these!), and garden enthusiasts are all welcome to the seminar!
Attendees will receive exclusive coupons at this class.
No RSVP necessary. Free to the public. Bring a friend and a coffee. You're more than welcome to record the class and ask as many questions as you'd like. Pets are always welcome on a leash.
August 15th - 10 AM Disappearing Streams - Steve Kainer, Owner of HCWG
August 22nd - 10 AM Xeriscaping - Alan Sodek, Nursery Manager at HCWG
August 29th - 10 AM Soil Ecology - Nessa Spence, Queen of MicroLife
There is a quiet revolution happening across America as farmers, ranchers, local food producers, horticultists, and backyard gardeners are waking up to new research and cultural techniques that focus on the soil beneath their feet. Post-WWII science gave us new tools and chemicals to increase yield, but it left us with dead soil!
Nessa Spence has been on this new, cutting-edge revolution for the past two years, and she's visiting HCWG to share the info she's picked up from this exploding new paradigm!
Nessa is a co-owner of Ripples and Roots Wildscapes, the Central Texas Representative for MicroLife Biological Organic Fertilizers, and she's the current Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, Region VIII Chairperson. Her passion for the future is infectious, and her knowledge has been gleaned from our nation's top researchers and practitioners in the field! Her talk will be one of the most important we will offer this fall!
-Nathan
