NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter
Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT-Wilco)
News from a Community Volunteer Group:
Working with the Brushy Creek MUD, volunteers will be removing invasive species along the trails behind the Brushy Creek Community Center in Round Rock on Saturday, April 18, 2026. They’d love your help! See the flyer below for all the info and to sign up.
[This is not a NPSOT event.]
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!
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.
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