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The Baker School Gardens
Karrie League learned to love native Texas Gardening at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. Upon seeing the broad lawns of the Baker School Building for the first time, she only saw a pallet upon which to plant Texas landscapes.
While husband Tim was overseeing the interior renovations, Karrie set to work outside. One square at a time, the weed-infested lawns have been turned into flowering gardens. Over the course of the last 6 years, more than half of the outdoor spaces have been transformed.
The first project was the community garden. Intended originally for the tenants of the building, the boxes are now tended by both tenants and neighbors. Contact us if you would like to take care of a box!
Then came the orchard. Starting with sapling peach and plum trees, which are still quite small, the orchard looks more like a meadow than anything else. So every year, it's seeded with wildflowers which make a spectacular show in the springtime.
Slowly, plants went in all around the building.
When Terrible Love first parked its coffee trailer on the North side of the building, tenant Studio Balcones, a landscape architecture firm, designed a patio to house it. Now that Terrible Love has moved into the boiler room, the patio has become a hub of activity with tenants and neighbors alike enjoying their coffee in the shade of the century-old pecan tree. It is still a work in progress.
