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February 23, 2023: Delta Dawn Gardens was featured on Austin PBS’s Central Texas Gardener in an on-tour segment for a recent project, Lori Najvar and Glen Chappell’s cliffside oasis in overlooking Barton Creek. Leah worked with the homeowners to soften rugged edges with native plants, attract wildlife, and tackle some challenges — erosion, slope, dry shade and armadillo pressure. For a partial plant list and Leah’s tips on improving clay soil, visit CTG’s blog post, “Dry Creek Hillside Design: Clay Soil and Shade.”
April 19, 2019: Delta Dawn Gardens was featured on KLRU's Central Texas Gardener in a segment on "Dry Creek Do’s and Don’ts." Here, Leah explains best practices and DIY tips for creating a naturalistic and functional dry creek to direct rainwater runoff in the landscape.
September 22, 2018: Leah and Colleen Dieter team up for a pair of Central Texas Gardener “Backyard Basics” segments about saving and planting seeds. How do you harvest seeds, and when’s the right time to do it? What is the best way to store seeds? How do you prepare seeds for planting? Find out below. This segment celebrates the kickoff of the Central Texas Seed Library, a seed-sharing program that is free and open to the public, pioneered by Colleen, a group of volunteers, and librarians at Austin’s new Central Library.
Leah and Colleen discuss seed saving and the Central Texas Seed Library project in depth on the Hothouse podcast. Subscribe to Hothouse on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play music.
October 18, 2017: Architect Sandy Stone's gorgeous, wildlife-friendly homestead was featured on KLRU's Central Texas Gardener. Leah has been working side-by-side with Sandy since January 2016 to create serene "garden rooms" under the shade of majestic live oaks in South Austin.
February 18, 2017: Delta Dawn Gardens was featured on KLRU's Central Texas Gardener in a segment on "garden rehab." Here, Leah gives some tips on renovating overgrown, overrun, and overplanted gardens.
November 25, 2016: Delta Dawn Gardens was featured in the Austin Chronicle as part of the annual holiday gift guide, "Hyperlocal For the Holidays." Leah named her favorite local nurseries and shops for finding plants, tools, and garden-related gifts.
October 22, 2016: Delta Dawn Gardens was featured on Time Warner Cable News' Garden Journeys with Colleen Dieter in a segment on cut flower gardening. Here, Leah gives the rundown on growing roses, annuals, and perennials for flower arrangements to enjoy in your home.
July 9, 2016: Delta Dawn Gardens was featured on KLRU's Central Texas Gardener. In the episode, "Small Space Design," Leah gives a tour of her balcony and patio gardens at home. More details and photos in the show blog here.
August 2, 2014: Before starting Delta Dawn Gardens, Leah worked at John Dromgoole's nursery, the Natural Gardener. She was featured with John on KXAN's "Weekend Gardener" segment about Chinese bitter melon vine. Here, she talks about using this twining vine to build a topiary dinosaur called the "Melonsaurus."