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Shake off those umbrellas! On episode 2 of The Horticulturati, Austin-based garden designers Colleen Dieter and Leah Churner discuss\\xa0 Central Texas\\u2019 mercurial climate. Specifically, the rain. And the lack thereof. Leah explains how longitude is destiny along the Hundredth Meridian (or is it the 98th?), and Colleen examines how \\u201cXeriscape\\u201d became \\u201cZeroscape.\\u201d But first, a garden update: Leah\\u2019s ripping out landscape fabric and Colleen has a misadventure with a skid-steer.\\xa0

Email us at info@horticulturati.com and visit us at www.horticulturati.com. Our theme song is \\u201cPlants\\u201d by The Horticulturati House Band.\\xa0

Mentioned in this episode:\\xa0

\\u201cAustin\\u2019s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian,\\u201d by Christopher Collins in The Texas Observer, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Path to Power by Robert Caro, this map of the hundredth meridian;\\xa0Southwest Gardening by Rosalie Doolittle and Harriet Tiedebohl, and \\u201cGravel in the Garden: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly\\u201d with Elizabeth McGreevy on KLRU\\u2019s Central Texas Gardener.\\xa0