Author: NPSOT-Wilco

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Meeting Reminder, March 13, In Person Only: Social time and “The Texabama Croton – A Botanical Enigma” with Tyson Bartlett

Join NPSOT-Williamson County in-person at 6:30 PM on Thursday, March 13, 2025 for social time followed by our featured topic The Texabama Croton – A Botanical Enigma with Tyson Bartlett.  Free and open to the public. This month’s meeting starts at 6:30 PM with social time and refreshments (a mix of finger foods & beverages). Chapter business starts at 7:15 PM followed by Tyson’s presentation.

==> This month, we meet in-person only, at the Round Rock Public Library, 200 E Liberty Ave, Round Rock, TX 78664. 

Read about this month’s special social time, featured topic and guest speaker in this meeting announcement.

Hope to see you there!

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Spring 2025 Plant Sale, Online March 16-19, In-Person March 29

NPSOT-Wilco’s Spring 2025 Native Plant Sale gives you two ways to purchase plants.

  • Online Sale – March 16 (noon) to March 19 (noon)
    • Order and pay from March 16-19. Pick up on March 29 at our in-person sale.
  • In-Person Sale – March 29 (11am-2pm)
    • At Southwest Williamson County Regional Park, Leander, TX.
Click for all info about the online and in-person sales

IMPORTANT: The 2025 Spring Native Plant Sale page at the button above is where we’ll publish details about both sales, including:

  • lists of the plants anticipated to be in each sale,
  • the link to the online store,
  • ordering and pick up instructions for the online sale.

If we update information on the 2025 Spring Native Plant Sale page, we’ll publish a new blog post. (Click on Get News if you would like to subscribe to the blog.)

We sell only Texas native plants!

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Williamson County Southwest Regional Park, Nov 2, 2024. Photo by Cindy Chrisler.
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Trip Report: Godwin Ranch Preserve

— by Cindy Chrisler

NPSOT-Wilco visited the Godwin Ranch Preserve in Georgetown on Saturday, March 1, to conduct the first of four plant surveys. Nine members attended and spent a leisurely two hours walking a mowed path and occasionally venturing into meadows of mostly KR Bluestem.

Notable finds during this field trip included large stands of Nuttall’s Deathcamus in several areas, which will bloom in a month or so. Also blooming were Elbowbush, Ten-petal Anemone, and Tiny Bluets.

Participants were able to identify 48 species, including grasses, trees, and shrubs from the remains of last year’s growth. Survey results will be presented to the Texas Cave Management Association which manages the preserve.

Godwin Ranch Preserve was established as an ecological mitigation for the construction of Lakeline Mall and will never be developed. The next survey is scheduled for May 24.

image of shrub blooming
Photo: Cindy Chrisler

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See photos from this trip and others in our album =>

Field Trip Album