Category: Chapter Meetings

Chapter Meetings

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February 14: Not the Same Old Deer-Resistant Native Plants

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Don’t miss NPSOT-Wilco’s chapter meeting on February 14, 2019, when our  program topic is “Not the Same Old Deer-Resistant Native Plants” with NPSOT member Randy Pensabene.  Randy will show you how to have a deer-resistant native landscape that also provides much needed habitat and food for birds, butterflies, bees and other wildlife.

Randy has landscaped her home with Texas native plants and been involved in several native plant demonstration gardens. She is an instructor in NPSOT’s Native Landscape Certification Program (NLCP) and a native plant guest speaker at area events open to the general public.   She heads up the planning, plant selection, grower partnerships and a myriad of other detail for NPSOT-Wilco’s twice-yearly native plant sales which take place at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in the spring and fall of each year.

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NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public.

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Program Summary from Jan 10 meeting-Seasons at Selah

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— by Pat Donica

Members and guests at the January 10, 2019 chapter meeting enjoyed a presentation by award winning photographer David K. Langford. David spoke about Seasons at Selah while sharing with us beautiful slides of his work at Selah/The Bamberger Ranch Preserve.

David donates $10 per book sold at an event to the hosting organization and there was a unanimous chapter vote during the meeting to donate those proceeds, instead, to Selah.  Thank you, David!

For more info about Selah, see https://bambergerranch.org/.   For more info about David’s work, see https://westernphotographycompany.com/.

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You can see the January 10, 2019 business presentation slides here.

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Program Summary: Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies

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– By Anna Marie Blair

Native Host Plants for Butterflies

On Thursday, November 8, 2018, Lynne and Jim Weber joined us at the AgriLife building to present information from their new book,  Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies.  We were shown many of our familiar (and not so familiar) Texas native plants alongside the butterflies that use those plants as hosts.

We were also given information on butterfly life cycles. Did you know that the older larva of the Yucca Giant Skipper will burrow into the root of yuccas? Now we are better able to identify what’s munching a plant and plan to entice those butterflies we want to attract.

We were also given a sneak peak on their new, similar project: moths. This will be a great project for a group of pollinators that are beautiful but less publicized!

You can find a handout from Lynne and Jim at this link.

Download the November 8, 2018 business presentation slides here.

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