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October, 2025 Native News Field trip to Bamberger Ranch Preserve (“Selah”) Oct. 23; This month’s chapter meeting speaker – Arlon Motsch reflecting on the successes and failures of this season, and looking toward next spring. “What Happened to that Plant? It Grew, It didn’t; Well…, Maybe . . .”; NLCP 1 Saturday 10/25
September, 2025 Native News Controlling Invasives & Knowing Your Soil Type–Warren Day, District Conservationist. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (September speaker); mark your calendar for upcoming events; volunteer opportunities
August, 2025 Native News Bill Lindemann Scholarship recipient announced; 8 Invasives for “Plant This/Not That”; Rachel Sarlls speaker for the August meeting. Dates for the calendar.
July 2025 Native News Issue of Opposites; Be prepared for the next wildfire with fire-resistant landscaping, News & Notes
June 2025 Native News “Plant This Not That” our series on invasives. Native thistles are overwhelmed by the invasive Eurasian Musk Thistles growing in dense stands in pastures and on disturbed land.. Landscaping from the Ground Up with Kathy Saucier, the presentation for the month.
May 2025 Native News The native plant garden at the post office has received recognition as a Pollinator Garden Property by NPSOT and Texas Master Naturalist-Hill Country Chapter through the Pollinator Garden Assistance & Recognition Program. Shop for information about plants, pick up educational information, or just say “hi” to our volunteers working the NPSOT information table at the Fredericksburg Famers’ Market every Thursday from 4 -6.
April 2025 Native News “Plant This, Not That” –Alternatives to Glossy privet; this month’s speaker takes us into Identifying Native Plants with iNaturalist: Year-Round Discovery for Citizen Scientists (and landowners)-
March 2025 Native News “Plant this, NOT That!” Nandina dometica (Heavenly Bamboo) is the first of a series of articles on invasive species. Nandina was introduced in the US in 1804 from its home in India and the far east. Watt offers alternative native plants to this invasive with its toxic red berries. Page 2: Volunteer opportunities abound.
February 2025 Native News Let’s get growing; Watch for Agarita ready to bloom; volunteer opportunities
January 2025 Native News – by Jonathan Watt, Chapter president; news & notes about his garden; tips for getting native seeds ready for sowing; latest news, upcoming events, invitation to be actively involved in chapter leadership.
2024
Plant Natives,
The monthly newsletter from Deborah Simmons, President, Fredericksburg chapter NPSOT
December, 2024 Plant Natives. Holiday party, Tuesday, Dec 3, 6:30 @ St Joseph’s Halle. New Board members join a strong team: Jonathan Watt, President; Lanis LeBaron, Secretary. Enjoy autumn’s gold and silver waves of grasses dancing in the breezes.
November, 2024 Plant Natives No meeting in November, but the chapter is still active. Mark your calendar: Seed stomp November 8. Holiday party December 3.
October, 2024 Plant Natives Mark your calendars: our members-only holiday party is December 3rd at 6:30 pm.; plant sale pickup is on Oct. 19; Matt Kolodzie, proprietor of Friendly Natives Nursery, will share 25 tips from his 25 years of working with native plants at our next chapter meeting, October 22.
September, 2024 Plant Natives Autumn is the best time of the year for Oct 19 plant sale. Prepare now. NLCP class 1, Sept 14. Kathy Saucier is our speaker this month: Learn how to select beautiful native ground covers to make a drought-tolerant meadow in place of your monoculture lawn.
August, 2024 Plant Natives Register for the initial class of the Native Landscape Certification Program (NLCP). Class is scheduled on ZOOM September 14.// Rufus Stephens, certified wildlife biologist is our speaker for the month of August.
July, 2024 Plant Natives Learn to create a pollinator garden with Board member Holly Simonette July speaker; Save seeds to replenish the ground cover for Cross Mtn.; donations for conservation efforts are appreciated.
June, 2024 Plant Natives Do you love seeing critters in your garden? Deborah Simmons is our June speaker. She invites us to her property to share experience in gardening to attract wildlife.
May, 2024 Plant Natives Speaker this month: Shannon Brown founder of ERA; Day Family scholarship available for a Gillespie Co. senior; it’s spring. the hummingbirds are here and the hill country savanna is ready for them.
April, 2024 Plant Natives Paula Stone sets the stage for designing the garden as this month’s speaker. Tune in to our YouTube channel to review the month’s speaker presentation or to attend the meeting. Members vote on changes to chapter By-Laws this month.
March, 2024 Plant Natives Cheryl Hamilton addresses invasives this month and offers strategies for removal; Spring to the Wild Side, our spring member plant sale is this month. “Hope is the thing with leaves that perches in the soul.” Spring is here.
February, 2024 Plant Natives: This month’s speaker: George Cates from Native American Seed will talk about Hill Country native wildflower and grass seeds. Growing bluebonnets from seed. Look for the promises of spring that are beginning to peak out.
January, 2024 Plant Natives: There is life in a Hill Country winter. The question is where to find it and how to sustain it; Robert Edmondson, January speaker. “What happened to our understory?”
Echoes From the Past is the history of our chapter archived in the chapter’s newsletter. It is frequently in the voice of the residing president and reflects the vision of those boards of directors. We hope you will be able to refresh your own vision in walking with the pioneers of the Fredericksburg chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas.
