Listen to Austin Designer Danny Bravens’ talk about grassless xeriscaping

February 5th, 2025

Join the Garden Spark Talk by Danny Bravens, the founder and lead landscape designer of Nativeson Gardens, Gardener of Central Texas, at 7:30pm on Thursday, March 6th. Danny shares field test insights into creating a successful Xeriscape Garden and explores the meaning of “low maintenance.” I hope it comes out to learn, inspire and enjoy a community night with Garden Spark. Tickets are currently on sale at this link. This is an in-person event and seating is limited, so grab your place today.

Search for a low-maintenance garden: Views of Xeriscapes in Central Texas

Everyone wants a low maintenance garden, but what does that really mean? For four years, Native Son Gardens, the design company of Danny Bravens, has been ousting lawns and installing native plant gardens that can be used while requiring less maintenance than traditional lawn-filled landscapes. In this talk, he covers many of the mistakes and successes they had along the way, as well as the specific practices they adopted in their search for lawnless Texas yards.

Speaker Bio

Danny Bravens is the founder and lead landscape designer of native Son Gardens and has always been drawn to nature. A few years ago, after spending ten years in the film industry, he began taking courses in landscape design and botany as a fun hobby. When the pandemic hit and he lost a good paying job, he decided to throw away the film for landscaping and started this company the next day. That was a good decision. On the company’s first project, he met his partner, Hector. Native son Garden has since installed over 100 landscape designs, redesigned the main entrance of the Long Center, experimented with seed-sowing meadows, and grown small companies into slightly smaller companies. It was fun and hard, but also incredibly rewarding to turn an outdated grass into a sustainable, beautiful native landscape. You can follow Nativeson Garden on Instagram.

When/Location: March 6th, 7:30pm

Danny will speak on Thursday, March 6th at 7:30pm. The approximately one hour talk with Q&A will be held at the North Austin location at Leaf Landscape Supply on Pond Springs Road. The seats are located inside the main building.

ticket

Purchase your tickets using this link. The ticket price is $35.50 and will also be charged a small fee sent to the ticket processing website. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Refund Policy

Tickets are non-refundable. Your purchase will help you cover fair talk costs for presenters and other expenses. And we can let talented design and ecology thinkers speak to us!

Thank you to the sponsors!

Garden Spark’s spring 2025 season is sponsored by Leaf Landscape Supply. This will enable the vision of a Texas central gardener through excellent quality, excellent choice and personalized customer service. For pricing and availability, please visit our website and online store.

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Dig deeper

Join us at the annual budding plant sale & festival held at John Fairy Garden in Hempstead on March 15th. Shop rare plants from the garden nursery and choose a plant vendor. Local artists and artisans, food, drinks and demonstrations will also be featured. Admission: $5 for members, $10 for non-members, free for children under 12 years old. Opening hours: 10am to 4pm. Members will earn early entry at 9am (membership on the day of the event).

Learn about gardening and design at Garden Sparks! I organize in-person lectures in Austin several times a year, inspire designers, landscape architects, authors and gardeners to inspire and inspire designers, landscape architects. These are events with limited attendance that sold out quickly, so join our Garden Spark Mealment List and notify us in advance. Simply click on this link and ask them to add it. Find out all about the Season 8 lineup here!

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