We’re announcing the pre-sale plant availability list for the ONLINE portion of NPSOT-Williamson County’s Spring 2023 Native Plant Sale. See our page Spring 2023 Native Plant Sale for the link to download the list.
The ONLINE Native Plant Sale – Begins the morning of March 18 and runs through midnight March 22 (Pickup Saturday, April 1, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm).
The LIVE Native Plant Sale – Saturday, April 1, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
IMPORTANT: See our page Spring 2023 Native Plant Sale for important details about both the LIVE and ONLINE sales. All information about both sales will be found on that page, including important dates and instructions that are not in this blog post.Click this link to read the entire page of current information. If information about the sale is updated and/or if new plant availability lists are published, the information will be on that page.
If you have questions, send email to wilco-chapter@npsot.org.
Bee on Sophora secundiflora, Mountain Laurel. Photo by Bob Kamper.
Our field trip is free and open to the public, but the preserve is not open to the general public. See important details later in this post.
We’re continuing our plant survey work with plant survey #7.
Be prepared for extensive walking on uneven, open terrain. Wear sturdy walking shoes, a hat, and sunscreen, and bring water, field guides, and something to take notes on and with. People at all plant knowledge levels can help on survey field trips. Beginners are welcome. There are NO restrooms available.
Please plan on arriving by 9:30 AM – there is a padlock on the front gate, and it will be locked shortly after 9:45 AM. Reservations are not required. Please feel free to contact Kathy Galloway (contact form here) beforehand if you have any questions. We will follow the latest CDC instructions for Covid safety.
Directions:
Take IH-35 north to Exit 266 (Florence/Killeen/195).
Turn left and follow SH 195 toward Florence.
Go through Florence, take the TX 138 exit (you will be near the City of Florence’s water tower with the bison on it), and then turn left onto TX 138.
After a little over two miles, turn right onto CR 224.
After about half a mile, at the fork in the road, bear to the left and stay on CR 224. Note that a car GPS system may indicate that you should bear to the right – this is incorrect.
After another half a mile, look for a green metal gate on your right (north side of street). There is a large wooden sign “Hidden Springs” sign between two flagpoles behind the fence. The address is 978 County Road 224, Florence, TX, but there is no number on the gate. (The gate is across the street from 981 CR 224.)
When you arrive, directions will be given as to where to park.
[3/9/2023: updated to show ONLINE sale’s first list available]
[3/16/2023: updated for LIVE sale’s first list.]
[3/18/2023: ONLINE store link added]
[3/23/2023: added note online sale is over]
[3/29/2023: updated LIVE sale’s plant list]
— by Randy Pensabene
Announcing the NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter’s Spring Native Plant Sale. Our fabulous native plant sale will be both LIVE and ONLINE! The LIVE in-person sale, and the plant pickup for the ONLINE sale, will be Saturday, April 1, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, at Williamson County’s Champion Park group pavilions, 3830 Brushy Creek Road, Cedar Park, TX 78613. It is free and open to the public, with no park fees.
The LIVE sale will include everything we usually offer in the spring: a vast array of large and small native flowers, grasses, groundcovers, vines, shrubs, ornamental trees, and shade trees. The ONLINE sale will include only 3/5-gallon native shrubs, ornamental trees, and shade trees.
We will bring a few extra 3/5-gallon plants to the LIVE sale, but to be sure you get what you want, please reserve your big plants through the ONLINE Native Plant Sale and pick them up at the LIVE Native Plant Sale. Ordering your large container plants through the ONLINE sale ensures that we bring what you want, and that your plants are reserved and waiting for you.
As the sale date gets nearer, we will provide plant lists for what we will have for each sale. The links to the online store and the live plant sale list are below. If we update either list before the sale, we’ll update this blog post and publish a new blog post to alert subscribers. Updated lists will have the new date in the upper left on page 2.
The ONLINE SALE is OVER. ONLINE Native Plant Sale– Begins the morning of March 18 and runs through midnight March 22 (Pickup Saturday, April 1, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm).
IMPORTANT: See our page Spring 2023 Native Plant Sale for important details about both the LIVE and ONLINE sales. All information about both sales will be found on that page, including important dates and instructions that are not in this blog post. Click this link to read the entire page of information.
We’ll update this post if we update any information in the sale page, and we’ll publish a new blog post to alert subscribers. (If you would like to subscribe, go to Get News.)
