Peckerwood Garden

Peckerwood Garden: Looking Back and Going Forward, Part 2

On September 26, 2012, the Garden Conservancy's Preservation Weekend conference launched with a keynote conversation on Peckerwood, Looking Back and Going Forward with John Fairey, the founder and owner of Peckerwood Garden, Hempstead, Texas, and Jonathan Wright, a gardener at Chanticleer Gardens, near Philadelphia. The conversational format provided an intimate glimpse into the artistic and horticultural vision that John Fairey brought to the development of his garden, which features rare plants native to a wide region of the southern United States and Mexico. The keynote conversation was introduced by Claire Sawyers, Director of the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College and co-chair of the Garden Conservancy's Screening Committee,

Peckerwood Garden |Adam Black |Central Texas Gardener

How do new plants make it into nurseries and home gardens? Peckerwood Garden’s Director of Horticulture Adam Black explains how John Fairey’s botanical discoveries changed our plant vocabulary. Host: Tom Spencer.

The Vision of Peckerwood Garden

Volunteers, Members of the Board of Directors, and Friends of Peckerwood Garden speak about how Peckerwood Garden touches them and about the vision and amazing skill of John G. Fairey in combining art, design, science, and conservation in a multidimensional experience that affects all of your senses in every square inch of his garden. It is “the stuff that feeds the soul.”

peckerwoodgarden.org

Peckerwood Garden is one of America’s most remarkable garden environments, an award-winning, beautiful space that is also a living laboratory to learn about rare and unusual plants.

John Fairey and his Peckerwood Garden

peckerwoodgarden.org
About an hour's drive from either Austin or Houston, Texas, poised on the edge of three climatic zones is one of America's most unique garden environments. Peckerwood Garden is the setting for an expanding collection of rare plants native to a wide region of the southern United States and to Mexico mingled with their Asian counterparts. For 30 years, Peckerwood Garden has been evolving under the expert care of John G. Fairey, whose fine arts background is evident in the garden's design. John is responsible for introducing a wide range of rare, native plants from Mexico to an American, Asian, and European audience.
The meandering woodland along one bank of a spring fed stream that divides the property forms the heart of the garden. It is flanked on the opposite bank of the stream by a dry garden and by a distinctly regional herbaceous border garden to the south. An expanding arboretum of significant trees for the region brings together superb examples of many different species of Acer, Ilex, Liquidambar, Magnolia, Styrax, Taxus, Quercus, many of which are recent plant discoveries from remote mountain ranges in Mexico.
It is also the setting for distinctive outdoor sculpture and for a collection of folk art from Mexico and the United States.

Gorgeous grasses and easy succulents |Janet Rademacher |Central Texas Gardener

Meet new exciting grasses and succulents with Janet Rademacher from Mountain States Wholesale Nursery. She and host Tom Spencer explore new muhly grasses and structural blooming hesperaloes.