Business slides for 2023 chapter meetings are here, listed by date. (If this particular meeting’s business slides were not added yet, they will be soon. Please check back later.)
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.
Join NPSOT-Williamson County on Thursday, August 10, 2023, when our featured topic will be Native Orchid Conservation Across Texas with Adam Black. Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Our guest speaker’s presentation begins after a short business meeting.
Please note: our in-person location this month is the Georgetown Parks & Rec Administration Building, not the Georgetown Public Library.
==> If you attend in person, we’re at the Georgetown Parks & Rec Administration Building, 1101 N College St, Georgetown, Texas 78626. 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). Come early (6:30 PM) for expert advice, to check out the seed swap board, or just to visit.
About our topic: From the Pineywoods to the Chihuahuan Desert, various species of orchids inhabit a number of dwindling habitats across Texas. Learn of Adam’s collaborative adventures and challenges tracking down and pollinating the state’s rarest species for conservation purposes.
About our speaker: Adam Black is a lifelong plant enthusiast who combines his experience in the fields of botany and horticulture by collaborating with various botanical gardens, universities and governmental agencies in documenting and collecting imperiled species for the purposes of research and conservation. Formerly a Texas resident, he is currently Director of Horticulture and Plant Conservation at Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories and Arboretum in Charlotte, NC but continues to collaboratively focus on the conservation of rare Texas plants.
At every meeting, we give away a book — about native plants or the meeting topic — to one randomly chosen attendee!
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 info about upcoming topics on our page Wilco Home.
Over a dozen NPSOT-Wilco members participated in the Progressive Field Trip on July 15, 2023. A pleasant breeze greeted us at the first stop, Papilionem Natives, a two-greenhouse operation dedicated to native milkweed propagation. Adelis Cardenas shared her tips on potting medium, germination techniques, and more as we toured her greenhouses and native plant gardens.
Adelis Cardenas welcomes NPSOT members to Papilionem Natives in Round Rock
Kathy Galloway introduces Sue Misiti of the Patterson Community Garden in Hutto
The heat was starting to build as we toured the Peterson Community Garden and Monarch Waystation in Hutto. Peterson Community Garden volunteers gave us a history of the garden and a tour that included an active beehive, antique farming equipment, and a variety of native flowers that bloom in the heat of Texas summers.
Our last stop was Murphy Park in Taylor which boasts a Monarch Waystation, small native gardens, and a rookery for egrets. Sue Wiseman showed us a mature Texas Palm, which has mostly been extirpated in Texas due to overharvesting. We ended the field trip with a delightful lunch at Plowman’s Kitchen in Taylor.
Sue Wiseman identifies the Texas Palm at Murphy Park in Taylor
Photos by Cindy Chrisler
Photos from this trip are in our field trip album=>
