Front Yard Native Prairie | Kasie and Andrew Brazell | Central Texas Gardener

Kasie and Andrew Brazell followed their dreams to 15 acres northeast of Georgetown to raise their young family. To restore the former cattle grazing ground on the Blackland Prairie, they dug out invasives and planted native wildflowers, perennials, and grasses. Despite Andrew’s long daily commute to his job in Austin, he returns home to acres of butterflies, bees, and other wildlife that connect their small children to a future filled with wonder.

[@paintur68]

Spectacular. This is the best type of garden......natural. :-D

[@NiaLin]

Looking forward to seeing my liatrus spicata Kobold bloom! It's got the immature buds formed now. I'm hoping to see those purple spikes by the end of July!

[@CamilleTylerbrand]

Great job

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Awesome !!

[@cd1168]

so beautiful

[@Joe-hq9xc]

I love the idea of a set-and-forget prairie, without mowing or controlled burns. Is it possible? What would happen if you stopped mowing the field each year and just let it go? Would it be overtaken by brush, and eventually trees? Would it maintain what it is now, but hit a maximum height?

[@lemongauche]

Depends on the location's elevation, amount of water, and herbivore grazing. Some places are dry enough that trees are unlikely to survive past a certain height; others are high and cold enough that freeze kills plant material above the surface in winter, so everything has to grow from the soil's surface each year. Some herbivore species under certain circumstances can maintain populations high enough to decimate trees and tree seedlings. There's really no such thing as a set it and forget it ecosystem of any kind - everything is always responding to everything else at all times. Change is constant. Reading about the Blackland Prairie, it seems that without intervention, this particular site would be quickly overtaken by woody plants and exotic species

[@jennywhite3508]

This is so cool

[@atomicwendy]

what a great inspiration!

[@Enki1013]

If I had that much land, I would use some of it for permaculture too.

[@thefloratrek]

what I always say to my self lols

[@sugarbomb26]

Bravo!

[@roadrunner123]

Very pretty.

[@felixromano3091]

I friend of mine just bought a few pigs and goats they ate almost all the weeds no mowing plus pork lol 😂