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Central Texas Gardener

For 30 seasons, Central Texas Gardener has been helping viewers pick native plants, tackle new gardening techniques, and navigate our region’s temperamental temperature. Join us each week on Austin PBS or learn more at CentralTexasGardener.org

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A group of children pose with vegetables picked from a community garden

Best of: CTG Kids

Celebrate the kids who love to grow as much as the grownups with this special episode.

A child feeds a tricolor goat

Best of: Furry Friends

Celebrate 30 seasons of CTG with a special look back at some truly pet-forward gardens.

Students planting in a school garden

Next Generation Gardeners

Texas Gardener magazine editor Jay White and John Hart Asher look at what’s ahead for gardeners.

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Meet The Host: John Hart Asher

CTG host John Hart Asher wearing a blue shirt and brown trousers standing in Texas wildflowers

John Hart Asher, senior environmental designer and principal at Blackland Collaborative Ecological Restoration and Design. He has over 14 years experience helping restore prairies and he and his partners, Michelle Bertelsen and Emily Manderson, have helped impact over 90,000 acres of Texas landscape alone. He stepped in for CTG to help out with hosting and they haven’t been able to get rid of him since. You can bet your bottom dollar he’s got a pocket prairie.