Author: NPSOT-Wilco

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Meeting Reminder for April 9: “Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants of Texas – Tough Plants for Tough Times” with Lonnie Childs @ GT Public Library

Join NPSOT-Williamson County on Thursday, April 9, 2026, when our featured topic will be Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants of Texas – Tough Plants for Tough Times with Lonnie Childs. Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM.  The guest presentation begins after a short business meeting.

You can download Lonnie’s meeting handout — information on 19 agaves, yuccas and related plants for the home landscape. Click here to download from our Dropbox.

See this announcement for speaker and topic details.

Please note => The video for this month’s guest presentation will be available on YouTube for 30 days. We’ll publish a blog post the day the video is posted.

==> This month’s in-person location is the Georgetown Public Library, 2nd floor, 402 West 8th St, Georgetown, TX 78626. Come early (6:30 PM) for expert advice, to check out the seed swap board, or just to visit.

==> To attend via Zoom, register at https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/IKtidaM8Q-aWs9g7KxlYhg#/registration

At every meeting, we give away a book — about native plants or the meeting topic — to one randomly chosen in-person attendee!

Yuccas

If we have permission from our guest speaker, we record the presentation for our YouTube channel. (See a list of past topics at this link.)

Have an idea for a speaker?  Let Program Leader Susie Hickman know via  email to wilco-chapter@npsot.org.

NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public. We hope you attend!  Meetings may be in person, virtual, or both, so be sure to check details in the meeting announcement. Meetings are announced on our website, our calendar and Facebook. See upcoming topics on our Home page or on the Calendar.

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Plant Sale Thank You!

shopping at plant sale
shopping at plant sale

Post-sale thoughts and comments:

Another successful Spring Native Plant Sale is in the books.  Labels and signs are packed away until the next chapter event.  We are deeply grateful for all of you who came and bought plants, shared information about the sale, and encouraged others to attend.  Your enthusiasm for making Texas native plants a part of your landscapes is so encouraging.  As I visited with the shoppers patiently waiting in the line to open, I noted that many of you are stepping up to make your landscapes more drought tolerant, and quite a few expressed convictions to “get rid of the lawn.”  At the NPSOT-Williamson County native plant sales, we major in those subjects. We hope you found the plants to get you started down those paths.

Critical to our plant sale success is our team of volunteers.  I want to give a special shout out to our security team.  The first year we had our sale at the current location, there was a vehicle break-in.  When the subject of hiring security for future sales was brought up, two of our members immediately volunteered for the job, and have been doing so ever since.  Thank you, Kathy and Vicky!

Cashiers, ticket writers, salespeople, technology, volunteer wranglers, food delivery, set-up, take-down, growers, those who volunteer to put labels on plant stakes, Round Rock Plant Club, and all those patient family members who put up with our passion for plants, thank you so very much!

Don’t forget—we have free native plants at every in-person meeting!

Beth Erwin
Plant Sale Chair

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Field Trip: Fern Botantical Bimble on April 11, 2026

— by Gary Bowers

  • What:    Fern Botantical Bimble @ Fern Bluff
  • When:   Saturday, April 11, 2026
    • 10am – 12:00pm
  • Where:  Brushy Creek Trail Segment, Round Rock
    •  Meet under the bridge at the public parking lot at the intersection of Great Oaks Drive, Brushy Creek Rd, and Hairy Man Road (Apple Maps or Google Maps).
    • See the map below.

Join us for this easy-going walk! We’ll wander east along the Brushy Creek trail alongside Hairy Man Road and stop to discuss native plants. As a bonus, you’ll learn the about the legend of the Hairy Man as well as why the area is called “Fern Bluff.” We will be walking off trail in several areas with uneven terrain.

Come dressed appropriately for the weather, bring your own water, bug spray, sunscreen, hat, walking stick, etc.  Open to the public!

map

Questions about the trip? Please contact the Field Trip Committee (contact form here).