“If we want butterflies and bees and hummingbirds and birds, we have to give them a place to breathe and a place to eat and a place to shelter,” Kathleen Scott told us when we headed to her New Braunfels garden in November 2022. An experienced gardener, Kathleen’s a Comal County Master Gardener and serves on the board of the New Braunfels Native Plant Society. Still, she started anew when she and husband Denny closed on their just-built house in November 2020. Their challenges: HOA lawn requirements of 75% front yard and 50% backyard. Deer live here, too, so Kathleen chose deer resistant plants in front. Her garden’s only a year old, but so beautifully illustrates planting for the future and all the creatures it nurtures already.
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12 Comments
😍😍😍 beautiful !! 🥰🥰🥰
💚💚💚Amazing ..really motivating video ..Thanks for sharing this beautiful garden 💚💚💚
I love this 🎉💜
I love seeing this beautiful garden and Kathleen's enthusiasm is inspirational. I also live in Comal County. I'm curious where she was able to source her native plants. I would love to plant the same.
Love this video! Going to be taking notes and making a list of all these gorgeous natives to look for!
I to am a native gardener in New Braunfels. I recently got my natural habitat certification using about 75% native or adaptive species of plants. As Kathleen mentioned once established they grow themselves with very little effort from me. I really enjoy watching my neighbors walk by point and comment. It gives me the opportunity to let them know they to can landscape using natives. I’m going to keep my eye out for her yard in my travels around the county. I know seeing her yard would provide me further inspiration.
Amazing she created a garden with insane HOA rules.
Wow. Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden with us. We need more of this in every HOA in America! Much love.
HOA ordinances needs to include native plant and pollinator gardens. And allow them to over take yards. Grass can be a hinderance, especially with our drought, which is being predicted to be worse over the next 5 years
I love her beautiful native plants garden. Glad we can watch a video with an amazing pollinators garden even with the HOA limitations. Thanks.
Question: If you are planting natives do you really need irrigation? Isn’t that defeating the purpose of water conservation?
I'm so jealous. Wish I could do this but the iguanas make it really difficult! They're pesky and persistant 😥