Fall 2024 Native Plant Sale UPDATES!

Headline news!  In addition to our in-person native plant sale on November 2, we will also have a Pop-Up Online Plant Sale this Fall, October 13-16. And we’ve updated the list of plants to be available at November 2’s in-person sale.

Updates are summarized below. See all the details about both sales on our Fall 2024 Native Plant Sale page.

We’ll have twelve species of Texas native plants in five-gallon pots for sale.  All plants in the online sale are $40 each.  The list is short but all are excellent species for Williamson County landscapes. We have two species on the list that we have not offered before since we began having our sales in the county.  We have Cotinus obovatus (American Smoke Tree) and Prunus serotina var. eximia (Escarpment Black Cherry) available. 

As with our previous online sales, you order online and we will have your plants marked and reserved at the in-person sale for pickup on November 2.  If your plants are not picked up by 2PM on November 2, they will be donated to the Round Rock High School Plant Club.

See the Fall 2024 Native Plant Sale page for all the details and for the list of plants to be available during the pop-up sale.

The sale is Saturday, November 2, 2024, at Southwest Williamson County Regional Park, 3005 County Road 175, Leander, TX 78641.  We will be in the pavilions (Boulder East and Boulder West) near the Quarry Splash Pad. Sale hours will be from 11:00 AM – 2 PM or until we run out of plants.

News! In response to our August chapter meeting speaker, Casey Williams’ program on native Texas aquatic plants, we will have 5-6 species of those plants available at the in-person sale.  They will be from native Texas stock.  This serves as a “heads-up” to those who have been thinking about starting a “cowboy pond” (a galvanized stock tank from the feed and seed store) or other water feature and want native plants for it.  You will want to get it ready before you bring home the plants. 

News! See the Fall 2024 Native Plant Sale page for the updated list of plants we plan to have available at the in-person sale.


We only sell Texas native plants, and we try to make sure everything we sell is well-adapted to grow in Williamson County. 

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sign displaying American Smoke Tree, Cotinus obovatus

Announcing Regular Landfill Pollinator Garden Workdays

We’re going to have regular workdays at the landfill pollinator garden each month, on the third Sunday of the month. The first of these will take place on Sunday, October 20, 2024, 8:30am to 11:30am.

  • No NPSOT sign up required! Join us at the garden when you can. Bring a hat, boots, gloves and water. Bring your favorite tools.
  • We’ll have the workday dates on NPSOT-Wilco’s website calendar. If NPSOT plans change for a particular date for some reason, we’ll update the specific date’s calendar entry so be sure to check there for news.

The Pollinator Garden is a collaboration of the NPSOT-Wilco chapter, Good Water Master Naturalists, Williamson County Master Gardeners, and Williamson County Waste Management. The garden includes a Monarch Waystation and is a Certified Texas Wildscape.

Volunteers help maintain the garden when the collaborating organizations announce a maintenance work day.  Anyone interested is invited to help!

image of large native plant garden

Trip Report: Final Survey @ Hidden Springs, Sept 7, 2024

— by Cindy Chrisler

Bee in Brazos rain lily

What did 12 + 12 equal on Saturday, September 7?

Twelve NPSOT-Wilco members completed Plant Survey #12 at Hidden Springs Preserve!

Three areas of the preserve were surveyed; the unusual summer rain kept vegetation green through the summer.

Notable plants included Eryngo, Brazos Rain Lilies, White Rosinweed, Snow-on-the-Mountain, Dotted Gayfeather, Mintweed, and Velvet Bundleweed. A number of late summer grasses were identified and added to the plant list.

This was the last survey at Hidden Springs in the series of twelve field trips over the last three years to include a survey in each month of the year. A plant list will be maintained for the preserve, and future field trips will add any new species that are found there.

[Photo: Bee in Brazos rain lily, Sept 7 at Hidden Springs. By Cindy Chrisler.]


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

See field trip plans on our Home page.