Favorite books
Ann Lovejoy: Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
A hands-on guide to designing your own naturalistic garden.Piet Oudolf: Designing with Plants
An influential garden designer and plantsman, Piet has lead the charge of New Wave style of design with its large sweeps of native grasses and perennials.- Scott Ogden: Garden Bulbs for the South
Scott Ogden is so well versed in the hundreds of bulbs available for southern gardens, he stretches the imagination of bulb planting far beyond the usual narcissus and hyacinths. Patricia Lanza: Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!
The simplest way to start a new garden over existing grass. It just takes time. And it really works! My side garden was done this way and in 1 years' time the layer of newspaper and old bermuda grass is gone.Sally Wasowski: Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region
Learn the native plant palette for your region.
Contact
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- Website: http://popupgardens.com/
- Location: United States
One-Line Bio
Debbie Allbritton: a garden designer in Fredericksburg, TX with a local garden design business, Pop Up Gardens. (830) 456-2733, (830) 990-9047
Biography
I began my gardening career by becoming smitten with gardening in the lush Pacific NW in the early 90's. I was a full-on plant nerd with a large Seattle garden full of unusual and rare plants from around the world.
Soon I was taking classes with reknown garden designer and author, Ann Lovejoy, and before long I was designing friends' gardens.
Pop Up Gardens began in Texas in 2001 as I installed my own large scale native Texas garden. I combine my background in art / design, with a degree from Univ. of Texas, with my passion for native and adaptable plants to create outdoor living spaces and lush dry gardens that are drought tolerant although full with texture, life and color.
Interests
Obviously gardening, as well as design and architecture. In addition to art & design, I'm also a plant nerd. And then there's running, cycling, reading, movies, hanging with my kids & family.
