Nominations open for annual awards
By Bill Hopkins
Each fall NPSOT presents awards to acknowledge the achievements of individuals whose work enriches our understanding of native plants and their environments. Nominations are being accepted now for the 2012 year awards.
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Fall symposium in Kerrville
By Bill Hopkins
Our annual Fall Symposium will be in Kerrville on October 5 – 7. Headquarters will be the historic YO Ranch Motel and the theme will be the changing landscape of the Hill Country. More details will be coming soon.
‘Yellow peril’ threatens wildflowers
By Marilyn Sallee
There once was a wonderful wildflower site near Aledo, Texas, along Iona Road. It was a cattle-range field that I would drive past each spring to watch the glorious diversity of Texas wildflowers color the landscape in rainbows of bluebonnets and orange paintbrush, and a dozen other wildflowers all blooming in natural diversity. read more »
Romancing the land
By Liz Soutendijk
Call it serendipity but there we were, six years into our retirement in East Texas walking with a biologist for TPWD while he identified plants in and around a pitcher plant bog on our land. How else, if not for serendipity, would my husband Bart and I have known a unique pitcher plant bog existed on our land? read more »

