Category: Native Plants

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Recordings Available for August and September Guest Presentations

Video recordings from these chapter meetings are now available on our YouTube channel. Guest presentations start after a short chapter business meeting.

  • August 10, 2023 – featuring Native Orchids with Adam Black.
  • September 14, 2023 – featuring Seed Saving for Native Plants with Colleen Dieter.

See more recorded topics on our YouTube channel. Like and Subscribe!

See our page Prior Guest Speakers for a list of past meeting topics by year.

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.

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1st Plant List Available for Chapter’s Online Fall Plant Sale

— by Beth Erwin

The first draft of our Fall 2023 online plant sale availability list with plant descriptions is now available. See our Fall 2023 plant sale page for sale details and the link to the list.

A couple of notes about this sale’s list:

 First, we have collected information from some of our members who are experienced in growing and observing our native plants on how well their plants have tolerated the heat and drought this summer with minimal or no irrigation.  Those plants that have done well or even thrived have earned our Wilco Xeric designation.  Those are noted with WX in the comments column. 

Second, you will see that a lot of the Height/Size/Notes columns are empty.  That’s because I have not clapped eyes on most of the plants in several weeks.  I am recovering from foot surgery, and I am still in the stump, drag, stump drag mode of perambulation.  I hope to have most of those spots filled in before the sale opens.  Be sure to check back for updated versions of the list.

Finally, if there is a specific plant you are seeking that is a Native Texas Plant and is not on the list, feel free to ask.  It’s been a tough summer to be a plant in a black pot, so most of what is available is on the list.  It helps us to know what folks are looking for.  If we can’t get it this time, maybe we can next spring. 

Happy hunting,
Beth Erwin

NPSOT-Williamson County’s Fall 2023 Native Plant Sale is ONLINE only. Dates and deadlines are on our page Fall 2023 Native Plant Sale.

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West Texas Esperanza, Tacoma stans-var. angustata
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Plant Rescue in Round Rock, September 23, 2023

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Volunteer with us Saturday, September 23, 2023, from 8am-11am for a plant rescue in Round Rock. There are hundreds of Liatris punctata available in the clay soil meadow as well as an assortment of seeds you can gather. The property owner is excited to be on-site to document the event. 

You must be a current NPSOT member and at least 18 to attend. (Join NPSOT or renew here.)

For more details and to sign up for this rescue, go to https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A4CADA62AA75-round4#/

Learn more about the Native Plant Rescue Project at this link.

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Liatris punctata at the rescue site.
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Dried seed bouquets waiting to be collected!