Perfect weather, perfect day! THANK YOU!

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— by Beth Erwin

NPSOT-Williamson County’s Native Plant Sale on Saturday, March 26th, turned out perfectly in so many ways. The weather was sunny and mild, our plant vendors showed up with tons of gorgeous native plants, and the volunteers were cheerful and hard-working. Then the customers showed up, and boy, did they show up!

Video by Phillip Pensabene.

Early bird shoppers came with the published plant list in hand. We had lots of wonderful native plants for everything from pollinators to songbirds to humans. We had trees, shrubs, flowering perennials and annuals, milkweeds, vines, grasses, sedges, and groundcovers. We had a great variety, and everyone enjoyed finding what they wanted.

image of plants for sale
Photo by Andy Goerdel.

Our volunteers helped customers choose a plant, find a specific plant, and told them more about their plant. They answered landscaping questions, carried plants, held customers’ plants while they went back for more and more plants. Boxes full of plants were ticketed, taken to a cashier’s table, and loaded into vehicles.

It was exciting! It went so smoothly, in large part to the pre-sale planning, prep work, training and practice our team leaders and volunteer workers did. Once sale day dawned, more terrific volunteers poured in. We were thrilled to have the Round Rock High School Plant Club members return to run our plant holding area. We were doubly lucky to have a group of enthusiastic students from Southwestern University’s Alpha Phi Omega chapter and instructors assisting this time. Our chapter volunteers really enjoyed interacting with the students, and best of all, several students from both groups expressed a desire to do it again.

image of plant sale
Photo by Cindy Chrisler.

We appreciate all the pots customers donated for our vendors to reuse to grow more beneficial native plants.

Our plant sale proceeds help fund our various nonprofit programs promoting the use of Texas native plants. Our primary focus is Williamson County, where we utilize the plant sale profits on community-enriching native plant-related projects.

Thank you to everyone for your kind-hearted support.
Beth Erwin and Randy Pensabene

plant sale panorama
Photo by Phillip Pensabene. Click to get the full effect!

Check out more plant sale photos in our Google Drive Photo Album.

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UPDATED final plant list for March 26, 2022 Spring Plant Sale

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The final final plant list for the Spring 2022 Plant Sale is at this link==> March 23 2022 PDF.  (Date is in the upper left corner on page 2.)   We do not expect to update the list again, but if we do, we’ll send a new blog post out to alert subscribers.

From Beth:
“Here is truly the final draft of the plant availability list.  Most notable are the additions of Dwarf Palmetto, Sabal minor and Devil’s Shoestring, Nolina lindeimeriana.  Both are in the five gallon size.  We only have two Nolina, but we have lots of Dwarf Palmetto.  There are a few things on the list that have a strike-through.  That means they will be a no-show, probably because they haven’t rooted well enough or really waked up enough to get on the trailer and come to the party.  Hope to see you Saturday morning.”

  • Find hours and location for the sale here.
  • Find extra descriptions of some of the plants being offered here.
  • Contact us with the form at this link.

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Final plant list for March 26, 2022 Spring Plant Sale

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[3/24 post updated with link to the final plant list.]
See this post for the most recent plant list=> Save the Date post
The post below was published on March 22, 2022.

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The final list for the Spring 2022 Plant Sale is at this link==>  March 20 2022 PDF.  (Date is in the upper left corner on page 2.)   We do not expect to update the list again, but if we do, we’ll send a new blog post out to alert subscribers.

  • Find hours and location for the sale here.
  • Find extra descriptions of some of the plants being offered here.
  • Contact us with the form at this link.

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