After almost two years of being part of the Native Plant Society of Texas and the Williamson County Chapter, the Native Plant Rescue Project (NPRP) has formed its own independent nonprofit in order to better serve the Central Texas region.
We have so appreciated our time together and the relationship between NPSOT and NPRP, and we will continue to partner together in the future!
Thank you to all who attended our Fall 2024 in person sale this past Saturday and those who purchased plants in our Fall online sale. Our Plant Sale Committee works very hard to ensure that our sales are informative, educational, and very well organized. Our teams of cashiers, ticket writers, setup, sales, hold area, and everything else that needs doing are outstanding. Special thanks to the members of the Round Rock High School Plant Club that work every sale with us. Their eagerness and enthusiasm for the sale and plants is infectious and makes us wonder how we ever did it without them.
The growers that produce our plants work hand-in-hand with us to make sure we have high quality plants to offer our customers. Collectively, we want everyone to succeed and embrace growing native Texas plants. We were proud to have more species in this sale sourced specifically from plants growing in Williamson County. This is largely courtesy of our Plant Rescue team with seeds also coming from member landowners.
Comments, questions and suggestions are welcome. (Send comments to wilco-chapter@npsot.org.) So are volunteers! We hope to see you at our Spring 2025 Native Plant Sale, a mere 20 weeks away, on March 29, 2025.
Beth Erwin, Plant Sale Committee Chairman
Nov 2, 2024 Native Plant Sale at Williamson County Southwest Regional Park. Photo by Cindy Chrisler.
Join NPSOT-Williamson County on Thursday, November 14, 2024, when our featured topic will be “Plant Conservation Programs at San Antonio Botanical Garden” with Michael Eason.Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM. The guest presentation begins after a short business meeting.
NOTE: This month’s guest presentation will NOT be recorded for YouTube.
==> This month, we meet at the Georgetown Parks & Rec Administration Building, 1101 N College St, Georgetown, Texas 78626. Come early (6:30 PM) for expert advice, to check out the seed swap board, or just to visit.
At every meeting, we give away a book — about native plants or the meeting topic — to one randomly chosen in-person 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 upcoming topics on our page Wilco Home or on our Calendar.