News from the Lindheimer Chapter:
What is a “wildscape”? A wildscape is simply a landscape designed to provide habitat for wildlife from bees and butterflies to birds and beyond, supporting a healthy community based on natural relationships. Want to learn more?
On September 27th, the Lindheimer Chapter will commemorate its 25th Anniversary by hosting a Wildscapes Workshop at the Tye Preston Memorial Library, located at 16311 S. Access Road, Canyon Lake, Texas. This all-day event includes educational presentations, guided native plant walks, a raffle, and ends with a native plant sale. Workshop attendees will have exclusive early access to the plant sale.
Presentations include:
– Nessa Spence of Ripples and Roots Wildscaping and MicroLife will present: The Soil Solution: Restoring Texas Wildscapes with Underground Ecology.
– Susan James (NPSOT, Master Naturalist) will present: Surrendering to Nature: Getting More by Doing Less, an anecdotal and site-specific presentation.
– Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Director of Horticulture at the LBJ Wildflower Center will present: Beauty and the Bees: Understanding pollinators and designing landscapes to support them. She is also the author of The Texas Native Plant Primer: 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden. Copies of her book will be available for sale as part of the event and attendees will have the opportunity to get their copies signed.
Check-in begins at 9:30 AM, the event begins at 10:00, and ends with a plant sale. Workshop attendees will have exclusive early access to the plant sale.
Pricing:
Member: $50
Non-Member: $65
The registration fee includes refreshments and a boxed lunch. Those that register by September 12th will receive a free event t-shirt. Please bring your water bottle, sunscreen, and dress appropriately for the outdoor guided plant walk.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the expansion of the Native Seed Library Program statewide and the Native Plant Rescue Project, currently expanding into Comal County.
Register to attend at this link on the Society’s state site.
The Lindheimer Chapter website is here.
