Please visit our Facebook Page at

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Native-Plant-Society-of-Texas-Houston-Chapter/108454152626553

 

Save Deer Park Prairie!

http://savecollegeparkprairie.ning.com

 

Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve

http://watsonpreserve.ning.com

Workdays:  Contact Pauline to rsvp

pollytx1 at gmail.com

 

Houston Zoo Native Garden Workday: Must sign release forms, contact Sally. sowise at hal-pc.org

Native Plant Society of Texas   

    HOUSTON CHAPTER

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 131254, Houston, TX 77219

     

Contacts

 

NPSOTH Newsletter

Spring2013web.pdf

Please submit newsletter articles by:

Winter (Nov-Dec-Jan) deadline Oct. 10

Spring (Feb-March-April) deadline Jan. 10

Summer (May-June-July) deadline Apr. 10

Fall (Aug-Sept-Oct) deadline July 10

to Triciabrad (at) aol.com

 

 WILDSCAPES WORKSHOP POSTER 2012.pdf (past) Wildscapes Workshop 2013 will be held September 7, 2013 at the Houston Zoo's Brown Education Center

 

Upcoming Programs & Meetings 2012- see current programs to the right

 

Volunteer Opportunities

 

Plant Lists

Deer Park Prairie

find other plant lists, events, seed collections opportunities and more at the Coastal Prairie Partnership Website www.coastalprairiepartnership.org

Native Plant Information updated March 2013

New- Native Plant Information with Hyperlinks! Coming Soon!

 Environmental Calendar updated May 16, 2013-

NPSOTH  Field Trips

Three field trips are scheduled for Spring and three for Fall. Field Trips are led by Dr. Larry Brown. We will continue to meet in the parking lot east of the Memorial Park Arboretum.  We meet at the Arboretum between 8 and 8:30 AM, and depart promptly at 8:30 AM. Please contact Paul Roling for any additional inquiries: 281-353-7413 or PRoling at att.net.

Mar. 17 - Edith Moore Nature Sanctuary

Apr. 7 Kleb Woods Nature Center

Apr. 21 Herman Brown Park

Please let us know what other information you'd like to see on our website! dknowlespe at aol.com


Thursday, June 20 Membership Meeting, at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center in Memorial Park. From January to November, meetings are held at the Houston Arboretum www.Houstonarboretum.org

Speaker: Malcolm Vidrine, Phd., Author and Prairie Specialist  "Connecting Dots:  Prairies, Mussels, Mites and People"  

Please join us at 7 pm for refreshments and a presentation at 7:30 pm.

Come early (6 pm)for a self guided hike around Houston Arboretum trails.

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Upcoming Houston Chapter Native Plant Society Meetings:  Visitors are welcome at all meetings and field trips!

 

June 20- Malcolm Vidrine, Phd., Author and Prairie Specialist  "Connecting Dots:  Prairies, Mussels, Mites and People"

 

July 18- Stephen Bruggerhoff-" Frontier Botany: Jean-Louis Berlandier and the Mexican Boundary Expedition, 1827"

 

August- Teri MacArthur -"Spring Creek Greenway Nature Center" - tentative topic

 

Sat., Sept. 7- Wildscapes Workshop and Native Plant Sale, at the Houston Zoo

 

September 19- Steve Hupp and Eric Ruckstuhl, Bayou Preservation Association -"Invasive Plants!" -tentative topic

 

October 17-  Linda Paisley-"Biomimicry: Native Flora & Fauna and the Important Lessons They Teach"

 

November 21 - Annual Social and Seed & Plant Swap

 

December 19 - Annual Holiday Dinner

 

Past 2013 Meetings and Field Trips:

 

January 17, 2013- Jason Singhurst, Texas Parks & Wildlife Botanist and Author, "Rare Native Plants of Texas" 

 

February 21 - Lynn Herbert-Native Plants in the new A Garden Book for Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast"

 

March  21- Jaime González, Conservation Education Director, Katy Prairie Conservancy- "Nine Natives - A New Model for Public Engagement about Native Plants?"

 

April- 18-Annual Earth Day Celebration, with Michael Wariner, TPWD Invertebrate Biologist- "Native Bees in Texas- Needs and Management"

 

May 16 - Jim Blackburn, Attorney and Rice University Professor, "Natural Areas and Their Role in Disaster Preparedness" (tentative topic)