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Field Trip: River Ranch County Park, Sunday, December 1, 2024

— by Sue Wiseman

  • What:   After Thanksgiving @ River Ranch County Park
  • When:  1:30 PM – 4:00 PM on Sunday, December 1, 2024
    • Meet at the Trailhead West Parking lot. (Follow the signs. It is past the Interpretive Center.)
  • Where:  194 Reveille Way, Liberty Hill, TX 78642
  • Our field trip is open to the public. Park day use fee $2-$4. (Ages 12 & under free.)

Please join us Sunday Dec 1 at River Ranch County Park from 1:30pm to 4:00pm. We will meet at the Trailhead West Parking lot. (Follow the signs. It is past the Interpretive Center.)

We will take a leisurely walk along the Overlook Trail where we will see a lot of fall grasses. The walk will be a little over a mile and is rated easy with few elevation changes. Feel free to bring your children and friends. Please wear appropriate clothing including long pants and closed toes shoes. Hats and sunscreen recommended. You might throw in a grass id book or notebook to help you with all the grasses.

If you have questions, please contact the Field Trip Committee (contact form here).

Escarpment Live Oak, Quercus fusiformis
Escarpment Live Oak, Quercus fusiformis. River Ranch County Park, August 2020.

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See photos from some of our previous field trips in our Field Trip Album.

Field Trip Album

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Plant Sale Thank You

— by Beth Erwin

Thank you to all who attended our Fall 2024 in person sale this past Saturday and those who purchased plants in our Fall online sale.  Our Plant Sale Committee works very hard to ensure that our sales are informative, educational, and very well organized.  Our teams of cashiers, ticket writers, setup, sales, hold area, and everything else that needs doing are outstanding.  Special thanks to the members of the Round Rock High School Plant Club that work every sale with us.  Their eagerness and enthusiasm for the sale and plants is infectious and makes us wonder how we ever did it without them.

 The growers that produce our plants work hand-in-hand with us to make sure we have high quality plants to offer our customers.  Collectively, we want everyone to succeed and embrace growing native Texas plants.  We were proud to have more species in this sale sourced specifically from plants growing in Williamson County.  This is largely courtesy of our Plant Rescue team with seeds also coming from member landowners.

Comments, questions and suggestions are welcome.  (Send comments to wilco-chapter@npsot.org.) So are volunteers!  We hope to see you at our Spring 2025 Native Plant Sale, a mere 20 weeks away, on March 29, 2025. 

Beth Erwin, Plant Sale Committee Chairman

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Nov 2, 2024 Native Plant Sale at Williamson County Southwest Regional Park. Photo by Cindy Chrisler.


See more photos in our album=>

Plant Sale Photo Album