Grow With the Flow
 The
1998 water quality poster, Grow With the Flow: Gardening Green
to Protect Austin's Creeks, promotes an environmentally- friendly
approach to gardening and landscaping. Excessive use of residential
fertilizers and pesticides causes pollution in Austin's waterways.
The poster sends the message to:
- Use native plants
- Fertilize naturally and sparingly
- Use pesticides only as a last resort
- Make and use compost
Multiple copies of eleven related books were
purchased for Austin Public Library branches. Companion bookmarks,
with graphics from the poster, contain a book and a native plant
list, pest management and fertilizer tips and composting techniques.
These were also made available at the libraries.
Check out these books we've placed at your branch
library and learn how to Grow with the Flow:
- Rodale's Chemical Free Yard & Garden;
Anna Carr, et al.
- Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by
Region; Sally and Andy Wasowski
- Safe and Easy Lawn Care: The Complete Guide
to Organic, Low
- Maintenance Lawns; Barbara Ellis and Frances
Tenenbaum
- Biological Control by Natural Enemies; Paul
Debach and David Rosen
- The Wild Lawn Handbook: Alternatives to the
Traditional Front Lawn; Steve Daniels
- Gardening with Wildflowers and Native Plants;
Claire Sawyers
- Common Sense Pest Control; William and Helga
Olkowski, Sheila Daar
- Native Texas Gardens: Maximum Beauty, Minimum
Upkeep; Sally and Andy Wasowski
- The Chemical Free Lawn: The Newest Varieties
and Techniques to Grow Lush, Hardy Grass; Warren Schultz
- Rodale's Color Handbook of Garden Insects;
Anna Carr
- How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the
Southwest; Jill Nokes
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