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Region VIII’s Summer Event
You are cordially invited to attend Region VIII’s Summer Event
Come cruise Lake Austin with us on the unique Commodore
*Dinner catered from Hula Hut
*Relaxing scenic view at sunset, along beautiful Lake Austin
*A special opportunity to mingle with friends, colleagues and clients
THANK YOU TO
OUR MANY SPONSORS!
They will be featured in a future
newsletter and recognized onboard.
Date & Time: Friday, July 16, 2010
7:00 pm to 7:30 pm – “Meet the Sponsors”
Boarding Time: 7:00 pm
Sail-Off Time: 7:30 pm
Debark at 10:00 pm
Parking: 3700 Lake Austin Boulevard
Reservations Required by July 12, 2010
$10.00 for members, $15 for non-members will
guarantee reservations for the first 75 received.
After that, your name may be added to a waiting list.
Please include your email address and/or phone number
with your payment so we can contact you!
RSVP to Amy Edwards @ 866-218-0384,
aedwards@hortica-insurance.com.
Make checks payable to “TNLA Region VIII” and mail
to: Amy Edwards
Hortica Insurance & Employee Benefits
PO Box 1273, Georgetown, TX 78627.
**SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES STILL AVAILABLE AND ENCOURAGED:
CONTACT JJ MCAULIFFE, SUMMER CRUISE CHAIR AND SPONSORSHIP COORDINATOR:
512-879-8779, jmcauliffe@treetownusa.com
Texas Nursery and Landscape Association ~ Region VIII ~ July 2010
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A Note From Your Region VIII Chair
your business cards)! We are setting aside a special
time for you to meet each one of
them.
We a r e s t i l l o f f e r i n g
sponsorship opportunities; so,
please, if you'd like to be a sponsor
or know of someone who would
like to be a sponsor, please contact
JJ McAuliffe, the Summer Event
Chair and Sponsorship
Coordinator, at 512-879-8779 or email him at
jmcauliffe@treetownusa.com.
Please secure your reservations today (see front
cover). It is going to be an extravaganza and the best
event our Region has ever
held! The food is going to
be fabulous (catered by
the Hula Hut), the music
exciting, uplifting and
fun, and, of course, the
tour of Lake Austin will
be a unique opportunity to
connect with your industry friends in a less stringent
Thanks again to Doug Christensen
and Accord
Irrigation
Technologies for
coordinating and
sponsoring our June meeting at the
LCRA's Redbud Center. Dean
Minchillo gave us a
great tour of the
grounds. We also
were able, once again, to go inside the
“weather station,” and get a visual
presentation of how the LCRA controls
all of the dams.
We are very excited to be able to offer
our Summer Event on the Commodore riverboat on
July 16th. We have even scheduled this meeting for a
Friday evening so that more of you can attend. As of
this date, we have gotten sponsorship commitments
from Deep Fork Tree Farm, Kinney Bonded (KBW
Horticultural Supply), The Davey Tree Expert
Company, and Nelson Plant Food Corp. Don't forget
to thank these generous sponsors in person (bring
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The Texas Nursery and Landscape Association's mission is to enhance members' business success
through legislative / regulatory advocacy, education, networking, and the promotion of professionalism.
STATE REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Larry Best, TCNP 205
Best Horticultural Solutions
806-786-9787
REGION VIII
OFFICERS
TNLA
REGION CHAIR
Sandy Schutze
Garden-Ville / TOP
512-350-0159
VICE-CHAIR
Jared Pyka
Native Texas Nursery
512-276-9801
PAST REGION CHAIR
Doug Christensen, TCLP 532
Accord Irrigation Technologies
512-383-5273
Region VIII
GROWER DIRECTOR
Mark Bentsen
Membership Chair
Greenleaf Nursery
512-784-5545
LANDSCAPE DIRECTOR
Russell Hackworth
Member Benefits / Preferred
Vendor Chair
DFI Resources, LLC
512-695-2319
SECRETARY
Amy Edwards
Hortica Insurance & Employee Benefits
866-218-0384
RETAIL DIRECTOR
Emelie McDaniel
Education / Certification Chair
Red Barn Garden Center
(512) 335-8093
TREASURER
Larry Best, TCNP 205
Best Horticultural Solutions
806-786-9787
SUPPLIER DIRECTOR
Sandy Schutze
Garden-Ville / TOP
512-350-0159
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Texas Nursery & Landscape Association
7730 South IH-35 Austin TX, 78745-6698
Phone: (512) 280-5182 Fax: (512) 280-3012
Email: info@tnlaonline.org
Web Page: www.tnlaonline.org
Region VIII email: region8@tnlaonline.org
How Do You Like It?
It’s your newsletter, let us
know how we’re doing.
Have an article you would like to
submit or a topic you would like
to know more about? Please
call or e-mail me.
Would you like to add color to
your newsletter ad? Contact me
for pricing.
Cyndi Reno, Editor
Region VIII Newsletter
Visual Impressions
Ph: 972-463-8888
Fax: 972-412-7840
E-Mail: tnla@tx.rr.com
professionally would be crippled without foliage plants ... or
maybe that's just the way I see things. Regardless, I've found a
new foliage plant that just makes my heart beat faster!
Zea perennis 'Winning Streak' is a variegated relative of corn.
Ribbon-candy-like foliage is striped in white and green. Unlike
regular corn, this plant makes attractive clumps 2-1/2 feet tall
and 2 feet across. Multiple spikes of foliage will appear from the
base over the summer to form an upright vase-shaped plant. I
love this plant mixed with Scaevola and zinnia 'Zahara Yellow' for
a cool and classic look. For something really striking, try it with
the dark orange flowers of zinnia 'Profusion Fire'. The cool
green-and-white-striped foliage is shiny and disease-free all
summer. Grasshoppers do like the taste of it, though. I've found
it works wonderfully in containers and en masse as a backdrop
for summer annuals. I also like it spotted in my perennial border
as a quick filler.
Plant of the Month Trial Program by Jimmy Turner
AT A GLANCE
Latin name: Zea perennis
'Winning Streak'
Common name: Variegated corn
Flowers: Non-showy
Mature height: 2-1/2 ft.
Hardiness: Summer annual
Soil: Well-drained
Exposure: Full sun
Water usage: Low to medium
Sources: Local retail
Like all members of the corn family, this plant is insanely easy to
grow. It is propagated by division, so don't go looking for seed.
You'll have to buy zea 'Winning Streak' in a container from your
local retail nursery. It does best in full sun with rich soil. It takes
Texas heat easily, but will need regular watering to maintain
growth. I have not seen this plant flower in Zones 7 or 8, but
those of you farther south might. This plant is one of the
teosintes to which our modern corn is related, but don't get any
big ideas of having corn to eat.
Anyone who follows my articles
knows that I have a fetish for foliage
plants. They are the backdrop and
the canvas against which the
painted colors of our perennials and annuals are showcased.
Without them, our gardens would lack for texture and interest.
To me, the use of foliage plants in a garden is the mark of an
artist. Quite often, new gardeners just don't want any plant
without flowers, but as they learn, look, and mature as
gardeners, foliage plants begin to appear in their color bowls,
then in the perennial border, and soon foliage plants become a
standard in all their designs. Those of us who design gardens
This is a brand new plant found by the wizards of the weird and
wonderful, Itsaul Nursery in Georgia. Due to its new-ness, it may
be hard to find. I know that may be frustrating, but I couldn't wait
to tell you about my new favorite foliage plant!
Let nature nurture you.
Date
Program
Sponsor
Location
08/19-22/10
Annual Expo
TNLA
San Antonio
09/14/10
Organic Soils
Garden-Ville/Texas Organic Prod.
TDS - Game Ranch
10/12/10
Tx Dept of Ag
Available
TBA
11/09/10
TBA
Available
TBA
12/TBA/10
Christmas Party
TNLA - Region VIII
TBA
01/TBA/11
Mgmt Workshop
Mgmt Workshop
TBA
02/08/11
TBA
Available
TBA
If you would like to sponsor a meeting or know of a great location for one of our meetings,
please get with one of the board member listed on page 3.
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Designing Your
Landscape
10 am-Noon on
Sat., July10, 2010
Zilker
Botanical Garden
2220 Barton Springs Rd.
Austin TX 78746
Ph: 512-477-8672
For information, see
www.tcmastergardeners.org
or call the Travis County
Master Gardener's help
desk at (512) 854-9600.
Does your garden need a
remodel? Or do you need a
landscape design but don’t
know where to start?
In this second landscape
design seminar, we will
explore the step-by-step
process of creating a
landscape plan. We will
discuss the creation of
drawings from site analysis
through concept to a final
planting plan. Learn how to
measure your yard and draw a
base plan to scale. This
seminar will introduce the
tools you need to create the
garden you have always
wanted.
This free seminar is presented
by the TCMGA, an arm of the
Texas AgriLife Ext. Service
and is open to the public.
One thing I can give and still keep...is my word.
Directions to the Summer Event
Parking for Commodore Boat Trip - 3701 Lake Austin Blvd, Austin, TX 78703
From I-35 North
Traveling on I-35 S, Take exit 234A toward
Cesar Chavez St/Holly St
Merge onto I-35 Frontage Rd S
Turn right at E 1st St/E Cesar Chavez St for 2.0 mi.
Take the ramp onto Lake Austin Blvd for 1.7 mi
Destination will be on the left.
From South MoPac and Hwy. 360
B
Head NE on S Mo-Pac toward TX-360 Loop S 1.7 mi
Take the ramp on the left onto TX-1 Loop N 1.1 mi
Take the Cesar Chavez St exit 0.1 mi
Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Lake Austin Blvd
Merge onto Loop 1 Northbound 5th 0.2 mi
Turn left at W 6th St 0.1 mi
Continue onto Lake Austin Blvd 1.3 mi
Destination will be on the left
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One thing that can't be recycle is wasted time.
VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED!
The Nursery/Landscape EXPO
needs volunteers to help install
The Parks and Patio displays
(designed by the Texas State Horticulture Students)
on August 17-19 (Tuesday-Thursday)
at the Henry B. Gonzalez
Convention Center
If you would like to help with the
implementation of these designs,
please call (512) 579-3859
Also, one CEU per hour volunteered is
available for TNLA Certified Professionals.
Thanks for all your support,
Mike Yelverton, TNLA
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Region Chair Notes and
June Meeting Pictures
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and relaxed environment, i.e., it's going to ROCK!
But, there are limited
spaces available so
get your name(s) in
now!
We would greatly
appreciate hearing
from YOU about
programs you would
like to see us offer or
ways we can improve and increase our meeting
and attendance. It is
only through YOU
and with YOUR
help that we can
effectively assure
our Mission
Statement:
DUST:
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
Turf
Alternatives
Class
A Turf Alternatives class will be on the
Austin Community College (ACC) schedule
for this summer (it will be posted online, not in the
catalog). Here's the info:
Turf Alternatives
June 10-July 15
Thursdays 6-9 pm
Highland Business Center
The Texas Nursery and Landscape Association's
mission is to enhance members' business success
through legislative / regulatory advocacy, education,
networking, and the promotion of professionalism.
For more information, please contact Sarah
Yant, ACC instructor, at 512-983-1110 or
saraheyant@gmail.com.
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Rising Star
Chrysocephalum 'Flambe'
by Jimmy Turner
C
hrysocephalum? I bet you
yellow, pencil-eraser-sized
looked at that name and said
flowers that almost completely
the same thing I did the first
cover the silvery foliage, and
time I saw it – “I’ve never
‘Flambé Orange’ has darker
heard of this plant before.” The hardorange flowers over slightly greener
to-pronounce name is Latin for
leaves. What really impressed me
“golden-headed,” in reference to the
about these plants was they never
flowers. I was first introduced to
went out of bloom or even looked
‘Flambé’ chrysocephalum a few
slightly worn out all season. Through
years ago, when it was entered into
104° weather, dry soil, and heavy
my trial program with promises of
rain, and throughout seven months,
constant flowering and heat
‘Flambé’ never went out of flower.
tolerance. I wasn’t terribly
Each plant spread about 14 to 18
impressed with the plant at first
inches across, and at the end of the
glance. And as usual, I was skeptical
season had mounded up to a foot tall.
of its claims, but it was native to
After one year in trials,
southern Australia, which definitely
‘Flambé’ chrysocephalum has
is hot and dry. The small bright gold The vivid, tufted blooms of Flambé chrysocephalum make become one of my favorite
or orange flowers on trailing silvery it an intriguing combination plant.
combination container plants. Its
foliage didn’t make the most attractive
trailing habit is a perfect fit for the “spiller” position
5-inch potted plant I’ve grown, but I’ve found that
in the classic container combo triad of “Spiller-Fillermany of the plant that do really well in Texas have an
Thriller.” With silvery gray foliage and colorful
“ugly duckling” stage and don’t always come into
flowers, it is perfect cascading over the sides of pots.
their own until they mature a little. The common
The biggest problems I have with growing annuals in
name, strawflower, didn’t really inspire me either,
containers here in Texas is that they dry out too fast,
since that is the common name of Bracteantha,
and I hate watering every day! Now I’ve finally found
another annual that just doesn’t do well for us here in
a plant that can take drying out and keep looking great
Texas. But ‘Flambé’ chrysocephalum lived up to all
all summer long – you guessed it,
of its claims, and even more. This plant is a must-have
chrysocephalum ‘Flambé’. This plant is truly heat and
for any Texas gardener who has a hot, dry area that’s
draught tolerant. I find it to be especially useful in
hard to keep watered, or a container that dries out
handing baskets, which seem to cook every other
every day.
plant I try in them other than portulaca. Three to five
You’ve heard me say that our trial garden motto
‘Flambé’ plants in a single basket will form a 2-foot
reads, “If we can’t kill it no one can.” If the blistering
ball of color all season long.
heat of Texas summer doesn’t take out a plant, then
The bright yellow or orange flowers and silvery
summer drought followed by torrential rains in fall
foliage work well mixed with blues and purples. I
will most likely dry it out or rot it. It takes a tough
especially like them mixed with another Australian
plant to win the “Flameproof” award in the
native, scaevola (’Blue Ribbon’ is my favorite
Arboretum’s trial garden. The award is reerved only
variety.) For something taller, try ‘Mystic Spires’ blue
for those plants that can be planted in spring and will
salvia or ‘Victoria Blue’ salvia. I also like it planted in
flower right up until the first frost, looking great
masses with accents of purple fountain grass
through the worst that our weather can deliver. It
sprouting up through it. To really heat up your flower
didn’t take long for ‘Flambé’ chrysocephalum to
bed, try it mixed with the trailing burgandy floiage of
im[res me and win this award. I planted it both in the
alternanthera ‘Royal Tapestry’.
ground and in my container trials, and the plants
‘Flambé’ chrysocephalum is easy to grow in full
quickly settled in and blanketed themselves in bright
sun with well-draied soil. If you deal with clay, as I do,
orange or yellow flowers. ‘Flambé Yellow’ has bright
then add organic matter and expanded shale to
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Rising Star
Chrysocephalum
'Flambe'
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improve drainage. In containers, any potting soil will
do fine; just make certain the pot drains well. This
plant needs no deadheading or general maintenance.
I’ve found it pet- and disease-free and well mannered
in its growth habit. Rabbits and deer leave it alone.
Surprising also is how long it will flower into the fall.
A light frost doesn’t even phase it. Mine keep
flowering right up until the first really hard freeze of a
25° night. That’s a tough plant! If you live in the
Houston area or along the coast, this plant may even
perenialize for you.
‘Flambé’ chrysocephalum may have a hard name
to pronounce, but its constant flowering, heat
tolerance, and low water requirements guarantee it a
place in my display garden for years to come. I hope
you will try this tough Australian flower with the big
name in your garden this summer, too. I’m willing to
bet that once you do, it will be a yearly visitor to
containers and color beds.
Better
Photography
in the Garden
10 am-Noon on
Sat., July 24, 2010
Zilker
Botanical Garden
2220 Barton Springs Rd.
Austin TX 78746
Ph: 512-477-8672
Flambé flowers continuously through the long growing season,
mounding 12” high and 14”-18” wide.
Trial by Flower!!!
"If we can't kill it no one can!"
About the author: Jimmy Turner is a senior director
of gardens at the Dallas Arboretum. Visit
w w w. d a l l a s p l a n t t r i a l s . o r g f o r m o r e
information on his trials.
This class will help you capture the beauty of nature with
your camera. Learn tips on capturing plants and insects in
the garden to get the most impact. Discussion will include
how lighting, focal length and aperture interact in composing
photographs and how to use your camera's programs
(landscape, portrait, etc.) effectively. After the presentation,
we'll go out into the Botanical Garden to practice our new
skills. Participants must bring their own camera, and have an
understanding of how to work it. All types of cameras are
welcome.
Prerequisite: study the owner's manual on your camera.
Bring your camera for some practical exercises.
For more information, see us on the web at:
http://www.tcmastergardeners.org<http://www.tcmastergarde
ners.org/> or call the Travis County Master Gardener's help
desk at (512) 854-9600.
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Texas Nursery & Landscape Assn
Region VIII
7730 South IH-35
Austin, TX 78745-6698
TNLA
Region VIII
2010 Membership Application
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adhere to the TNLA Code of Ethics. Payment is enclosed for membership dues through February. By signing this application, I agree to allow
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deductible as a charitable contribution but may be deductible as an ordinary business expense. TNLA estimates that 1% of your dues payment
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TNLA
Region VIII
Texas Nursery & Landscape Assn
Region VIII Newsletter
7730 South IH-35
Austin, TX 78745-6698
Summer Activity
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