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Fall 2024 Native Plant Sale UPDATES!

Headline news!  In addition to our in-person native plant sale on November 2, we will also have a Pop-Up Online Plant Sale this Fall, October 13-16. And we’ve updated the list of plants to be available at November 2’s in-person sale.

Updates are summarized below. See all the details about both sales on our Fall 2024 Native Plant Sale page.

Pop-Up Online Native Plant Sale – October 13 to October 16 – from Noon ‘til Noon

We’ll have twelve species of Texas native plants in five-gallon pots for sale.  All plants in the online sale are $40 each.  The list is short but all are excellent species for Williamson County landscapes. We have two species on the list that we have not offered before since we began having our sales in the county.  We have Cotinus obovatus (American Smoke Tree) and Prunus serotina var. eximia (Escarpment Black Cherry) available. 

As with our previous online sales, you order online and we will have your plants marked and reserved at the in-person sale for pickup on November 2.  If your plants are not picked up by 2PM on November 2, they will be donated to the Round Rock High School Plant Club.

See the Fall 2024 Native Plant Sale page for all the details and for the list of plants to be available during the pop-up sale.

IN-PERSON Native Plant Sale – November 2 – 11:00am to 2:00pm

The sale is Saturday, November 2, 2024, at Southwest Williamson County Regional Park, 3005 County Road 175, Leander, TX 78641.  We will be in the pavilions (Boulder East and Boulder West) near the Quarry Splash Pad. Sale hours will be from 11:00 AM – 2 PM or until we run out of plants.

News! In response to our August chapter meeting speaker, Casey Williams’ program on native Texas aquatic plants, we will have 5-6 species of those plants available at the in-person sale.  They will be from native Texas stock.  This serves as a “heads-up” to those who have been thinking about starting a “cowboy pond” (a galvanized stock tank from the feed and seed store) or other water feature and want native plants for it.  You will want to get it ready before you bring home the plants. 

News! See the Fall 2024 Native Plant Sale page for the updated list of plants we plan to have available at the in-person sale.

We only sell Texas native plants, and we try to make sure everything we sell is well-adapted to grow in Williamson County. 

We publish news about the sale in blog posts. Subscribe to receive email when a post is published. Click on Get News.

sign displaying American Smoke Tree, Cotinus obovatus
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Announcing Regular Landfill Pollinator Garden Workdays

We’re going to have regular workdays at the landfill pollinator garden each month, on the third Sunday of the month. The first of these will take place on Sunday, October 20, 2024, 8:30am to 11:30am.

  • No NPSOT sign up required! Join us at the garden when you can. Bring a hat, boots, gloves and water. Bring your favorite tools.
  • We’ll have the workday dates on NPSOT-Wilco’s website calendar. If NPSOT plans change for a particular date for some reason, we’ll update the specific date’s calendar entry so be sure to check there for news.

The Pollinator Garden is a collaboration of the NPSOT-Wilco chapter, Good Water Master Naturalists, Williamson County Master Gardeners, and Williamson County Waste Management. The garden includes a Monarch Waystation and is a Certified Texas Wildscape.

Volunteers help maintain the garden when the collaborating organizations announce a maintenance work day.  Anyone interested is invited to help!

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October 10 Chapter Meeting: “Building a Future With Flowers: Lewisville’s Sustainable Solution” with TJ Gilmore

Join NPSOT-Williamson County on Thursday, October 10, 2024, when our featured topic will be “Building a Future With Flowers: Lewisville’s Sustainable Solution” with TJ Gilmore, mayor of Lewisville, Texas.  Our guest speaker will be joining us via Zoom from Lewisville.

The meeting begins at 7:00 PM.  TJ’s presentation will begin after a short business meeting. The meeting is free and open to the public.

==> This month, we meet at the Georgetown Public Library, 2nd Floor, 402 W 8th St, Georgetown, Texas 78626.  Come early (6:30 PM) for expert advice, to check out the seed swap board, or just to visit.

==> To attend via Zoom register at https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcod-6rpj0vHNbqaLOu16d146ngFuPBxCTO#/registration

About our topic:  Want to know how to navigate getting your city leadership to invest in natives, avoid common political pitfalls, and identify several programs that can be replicated in your community? TJ Gilmore, mayor of Lewisville, Texas, will be providing all of that and more in his presentation.

About our speaker: Mayor TJ Gilmore is an Arizona native who’s been a Texas transplant since 2001. His service to the community stretches back to working on boards and commissions in 2004 until he was elected to city council in 2011 and became mayor in 2021. He’s married to his college sweetheart, has three recent college graduate children and can’t pass up watching a good Star Trek episode. TJ is always looking out for ways to leave the community better than he found it and loves how plants bring people together — even though he has a black thumb.

Blackfoot Daisy, Melampodium leucanthum
Blackfoot Daisy, Melampodium leucanthum. Photo by Bob Kamper.

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.