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Sideoats Grama
(Bouteloua curtipendula)
Sun, attractive seed form on one side of
stems, state grass of Texas, attracts birds and butterflies, two to three feet
tall.
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2008 Meetings and Events - All regular meetings are
at Rhode's
Nature Store and Nursery, 1651 Wall Street, Garland, Texas in the
"Little Red Schoolhouse". Mapsco 29T
 | October 4 - Annual Fall Workday - Spring Creek Demonstration
Garden
Meet at 9 am to help clean up our demonstration garden,
1787 Holford
Road, Garland. The garden is located on the west side of Holford. Then come with
us to visit the garden put in by the Garland Chapter at
Gloria Dei
Lutheran, 1333 Beltline Road, Garland, spring of 2007. |
| October 12 -
Texas Invaders Program - Karan Rawlins,
Speaker
Texas Invaders is a program
developed in 2005 by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in
partnership with the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Sea Studios
Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and National Geographic. It
is a program to train citizen scientists to identify, track and the
reporting of invasive species, in our case throughout Texas.
www.texasinvasives.org
"on a global basis . . . the two great destroyers of biodiversity are,
first, habitat destruction and second, invasion by exotic species." E.
O. Wilson, biologist |
| November 16 - Christmas Social - Election of Officers |
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