Fredericksburg Chapter Resources

 

LANDSCAPE PLANNING

Firewise Landscaping for Texas    Texas does not have a fire season. It has a fire year. Find the “right plant for the right place”. Learn how to protect your home while building the landscape around it.

Gardening and Landscaping Guides

• Samples of Garden Planning Maps:     6 individual diagrams from Deede Wright to lead you through the process of designing your own landscape. Can be used with the YouTube video
• Xeriscaping Your Yard.Wasowski, Sally, and Andy Wasowski. Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region. Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1988. (For some members, this is their “Go To” book)
• Hudson, Virginia (Ginger)  Landscape Maintenance for Central Texas Gardens   iBook
  
      General Reference

• • • The Fredericksburg Nature Center is a wonderful local resource for viewing and learning about plants in garden and natural settings. Their facebook page provides a tour all by itself.
    • Hill Country Master Naturalists offer public talks on many topics of interest to property owners, as well as the Land Management Assistance Program designed to help you understand what you have and apply good stewardship practices.
    • Hill Country Master Gardeners offer information and a variety of programs to help you become a better gardener.  
    • The LBJ Wildflower Center is a go-to resource for almost any kind of questions you may have about native plants. A variety of special collections are designed for central Texas gardeners searching for ideas concerning specific challenges: dry shade?  drought tolerance?  Wetlands?  Containers? .
    • The Native Prairie Association of Texas is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of native prairies in Texas
    • TPWD Nongame and Rare Species Program has crafted native pollinator management guidelines landowners can use to develop their wildlife management plan for wildlife tax valuation.
    • USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is the first step in knowing about your soil and the home for your new plants. Check out the Web Soil Survey Map to see where your plants will stand.

            General Plant Lists: Recommended native plants for our area.

• • • Plants for Birds and Pollinators
    • Native drought-tolerant-plants for summer and fall
    • Fall bloomers

     Local Sources for Native Plants

• The Garden Haus, 109 FM 473, Comfort, 830-995-5610
• Natives of Texas, 4256 Medina Highway, Kerrville, 830-896-2169
• Plant Haus 2, 604 Jefferson Street, Kerrville, 830-792-4444
• The Gardens at The Ridge, 13439 S. Ranch Road 783 (Harper Rd.), Kerrville, 830-896-0430
• Friendly Natives, 1107 N. Llano Street, Fredericksburg, 830-997-6288
• Medina Garden Nursery, 13417 TX Highway 16, Medina, 830-589-2771

      

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT PLANNING RESOURCES

• Help the Monarchs: The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the US Department of Agriculture.has created a downloadable ranked list of the best wildflowers for Monarchs. (Important Plants of the Monarch Butterfly Southern Great Plains Staff Guide) .  Not everything in the list is native to the Edwards Plateau, but a great number of them are. This is a good place to start your exploration. Monarchs, the title of the entire site, is worth the exploration.
• Wildlife Management Plans http://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_1813.pdf
• Landowner Incentive Program http://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/land/private/lip/
• Natural Resources Conservation Service: Pollinators and Insects  http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/plantsanimals/pollinate/

FORESTRY CARE ( for whatever size forest you have):

• tfsfrd.tamu.edu/MapMyProperty/
• texastreeplanting.tamu.edu
• tfsweb.tamu.edu   General urban and community guides to trees and forest health
• Central Texas Restoration and Recovery Program West Texas Nursery    tfsweb.tamu.edu/WestTexasNursery/  (806) 892-3572
• texasoakwilt.com

     Texas Forest Service Regional Contact

Robert Edmonson, Biologist III / ISA Certified Arborist, Texas A&M Forest Service
P.O. Box 1718 (mailing) 208 South Lady Bird Lane (physical), Johnson City, TX 78636
830-868-7949 (office)
979-220-0913 (cell)
redmonson@tfs.tamu.edu (email)

     Taking Samples

Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory – 979-845-8032 / 979-845-6499 fax

 

WHAT IS IT? Plant Identification

Seek by iNaturalist Search your app store for this app for your phone/camera. Designed by the iNaturalist team it was created for individuals and children who simply want to point, click, and have an immediate idea what that plant or animal is. No registration needed.

• Get outside and point the Seek Camera at living things

• Identify wildlife, plants, and fungi and learn about the organisms all around you

iNaturalist.org    Is the more extensive version of the crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool. You can use it to record your own observations, get help with identifications, collaborate with others to collect this kind of information for a common purpose, or access the observational data collected by iNaturalist users. Download the app at your app store.

An extensive catalogue of native plant images can be found at http://www.texaswildflowerpictures.com/wf_index.htm

RESOURCES: recommended by members

• • Enquist, Marshall. Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country. Austin: Lone Star Botanical, 1988 (Kathy’s #1 book for ID) Austin conservationist Marshall Enquist provides detailed descriptions and color illustrations of 427 wildflower species. Broad in scope, the book covers everything from the smallest meadow flowers to the largest flowering trees and shrubs.

• • Linex, Ricky J.. Range Plants of North Central Texas: A Land Users Guide to Their Identification, Value, and Management. Independent publisher, 2014. (Find at seedsource.com and NRCS offices) “there are multiple photos of each of the 324 plants described, including pictures of seeds and flowers in many cases.”

• • Woody Plants of the Texas Hill Country, Sandra Magee and Scott Magee. Apple Books.

• • Hill Country Grasses, Sandra Magee and Scott Magee. Apple BooksCommon Texas Hill Country Forbs, Scott Magee. Apple Books.

• • The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: A Guide to Distinguishing Texas Thistles; a Perennial Ecology post by Kay Strain, August 13, 2017 This is your guide to determining if your thistle’s intentions are benign- or something much more sinister.

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