NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter
Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT-Wilco)
The Native Plant Rescue Project is having a rescue in Round Rock on Monday, May 8th, from 5pm until 7pm. You must be a current NPSOT member to attend. (Join here.)
For more details and to sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0a4cada62aa75-sround1#/
If you have questions, please contact the Native Plant Rescue Project using this form.
Join NPSOT-Williamson County on Thursday, May 11, 2023, when our featured topic will be Medicinal Applications of Native Plants by Native Americans with Ricky Linex. Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Read more about our topic and guest speaker in this previous meeting announcement.
Please note: This month our meeting may run a little longer than usual with a 1 hour guest presentation.
==> If you attend in person, we’re at the Georgetown Public Library, 2nd floor. If you attend in person, you are giving consent to be videoed for Zoom and YouTube (if the meeting is to be posted on YouTube).
==> To attend via Zoom instead of in person, register at https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ufuCrqjsiHtUy9eE2yXIdOX30bxjrxkAd#/registration
At every meeting, we give away a book — about native plants or the meeting topic — to one randomly chosen attendee!
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 speakers planned for this year on our Wilco Home page.
Have an idea for a speaker? Let Program Leader Susie Hickman know via email to wilco-chapter@npsot.org.
— by Cindy Chrisler
The April Field Trip took chapter members to San Antonio, where we were treated to a guided hike in Phil Hardberger Park. The park is perhaps most famous for its award-winning land bridge for pedestrian and wildlife traffic over Werzbach Parkway, a multilane road in northern San Antonio.
We met Education Coordinator David Jimenez at the outdoor classroom and took a leisurely walk on one of the many improved trails through the park that led to the land bridge. The bridge itself is planted with native plants that were blooming prolifically, attracting pollinators as well as providing a beautiful setting for a stroll. Interesting plants featured in the park included cacti growing in the canopy of an oak tree and plateau milkvine, which we could identify although it was not blooming.
Those who participated spent a very enjoyable morning identifying plants in the company of fellow botanical enthusiasts.
Photos by Cindy Chrisler.