NPSOT-Wilco – Page 6 – NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter

September 29, 2025September 29, 2025

WilcoScape has been updated!

The WilcoScape Team is pleased to announce recent enhancements to WilcoScape, our chapter’s native plant database. WilcoScape helps you choose, locate, and grow native Texas plants that thrive in Williamson County.

The most significant enhancement is the newly added Category filter set.
- The Easy to Find & Grow category includes the plants that are the easiest to find in nurseries and the easiest for you to grow successfully.
- The More Favorites category provides you with more native plants we recommend for Williamson County, but these may be a little harder to find or grow.
- The third category is Consider Carefully. It also includes some great native plants, but the plant information needs to be evaluated carefully before adding them to your wish list.
We have also updated plant descriptions to indicate the different types of gardens or naturalized areas each plant is recommended for, providing another way to help you succeed with using native plants. Additionally, we added 40 more native plants recommended for Williamson County.

Many of the plants we recommend can be found at our chapter’s wildly popular native plant sales including the sale that is starting today, September 29. See Fall 2025 Native Plant Sale to find the latest native plant sale information.

Please visit WilcoScape and use the Contact Us link provided on the WilcoScape page footer to send us any feedback on your experience or suggestions for improvement.

Best,
The WilcoScape Team
– Gary Bowers and Randy Pensabene

September 28, 2025

Store link added for Fall 2025 Online Native Plant Sale

The online store link has been added to our page Fall 2025 Native Plant Sale. That’s where you’ll find all the info about the online and in-person sales.

Reminder:

– The online sale is September 29 at noon to October 1 at noon. Pick up your purchases at the in-person sale on Oct 11.

– The in-person sale is October 11, 11am-2pm, at Southwest Williamson County Regional Park, Boulder East & West Pavilions (near the Quarry Splash Pad) 3005 County Road 175 Leander, TX 78641.

September 26, 2025

2025 Fall Plant Sale: updated plant list for Oct 11’s in-person sale

We have a good news/bad news scenario here with our updated plant availability list for the in-person sale on Oct 11, 2025. The bad news, as predicted in our first plant list draft, prices have gone up. There have been quite a few changes since the list was first published in July. Some species did not survive the summer, and you will be disappointed if the plant you were craving is no longer available.

The good news is, we have a huge variety of plants and many “first timers” in our sale. We are excited to offer 8 species/varieties of Texas native cacti. One of them is a Williamson County Native Plant Rescue plant grown from seeds collected in front of the bulldozers right here in our county. All of the cacti are offered in 4-inch pots for $5 each. Several of them are small species, ideal for container cactus gardens.

For those of you interested in native grasses, we have more species offered than ever before. Hard to beat those grasses for drought tolerant, deer resistant plants.

==> See our page Fall 2025 Native Plant Sale for the updated in-person sale list, the online sale list, and all the details for both sales.

The in-person sale list will get an important update after the online sale is over. Plants that sell out online will be noted, so be sure to check back for that.

The online sale is September 29 at noon to October 1 at noon. Pick up your purchases at the in-person sale on Oct 11.

The in-person sale is October 11, 11am-2pm, at Southwest Williamson County Regional Park, Boulder East & West Pavilions (near the Quarry Splash Pad) 3005 County Road 175 Leander, TX 78641.

Up to one week before the sale, we will take requests for native plants that are not listed on the availability list and attempt to acquire them for you. Send your request to wilco-chapter@npsot.org.

— Beth