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SUMMARY:Exploration Green Phase 3A Pollinator Garden - Hybrid Clear Lake Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:6:15 Doors Opens – UHCL Bayou Building\, Garden Room (1510)6:40 Zoom Opens6:45 Business Meeting6:55 Plant of the Month7:00 Guest Speaker \n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of delicious pizza\, exciting door prizes\, and the chance to connect with others while learning something new! Bring your own beverage. \n\n\n\nThe Exploration Green Phase 3A pollinator garden aims to change the expectations of the public and ways people interact with pollinator gardens. The 3A garden started with a grant from the Clear Lake Chapter of the Native Plant Society in September 2024 and is expanding this spring with an additional grant received from H-E-B/Texas Master Naturalist’s Pollinators for Texas initiative. It is a long-term pollinator habitat within the conservancy where volunteers and the public can observe a variety of native plants and their relationships with resident and migrant animals\, as well as omnipresent environmental factors like heat\, wind\, rain\, snow\, and drought. Plant information is part of the design\, and data is collected and evaluated. The aim of these data is to help this garden and others in our area evolve season by season and year by year. This presentation will highlight the challenges\, successes\, and surprises from the first six months and look ahead to the future with the hope of inspiring more members to create public gardens. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\nAfter a lifetime in the Houston area spent toiling for oil and gas\, Lynn Porfirio discovered a passion for green volunteer work starting with Trees for Houston\, Galveston Bay Foundation\, and SPLASh. In 2023\, she became a member of Galveston Bay Area Texas Master Naturalist and Native Plant Society to learn about different volunteer opportunities and better understand the nature of the region. The following year\, Lynn completed the Native Landscape Certification Program. She is the owner of Native Ideas Yard Care and designer and champion of the 3a pollinator garden. \n\n\n\n\nIn-person – Parking Pass Required\n\n\n\nIf you have a pass\, don’t forget it – you will not get another one if you picked one up previously. If you need a pass\, arrive early enough to pick one up in the meeting room and place it in your car. DO NOT park in faculty/staff parking (enforced 24/7). \n\n\n\nMap and Directions – The meeting will be held in the Bayou Building\, Garden Room (1510) at UH-Clear Lake. \n\n\n\nUniversity of Houston-Clear Lake2700 Bay Area Blvd.Houston\, TX 77058 \n\n\n\nOnline – Zoom\n\n\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis is a FREE EVENT. Meetings are open to members and non-members. If you would like to become a member\, you may join online. For more information about the Native Plant Society of Texas and the benefits of membership please visit: npsot.org. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Environmental Institute of Houston\, University of Houston-Clear Lake.
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/exploration-green-phase-3a-pollinator-garden-hybrid-clear-lake-chapter-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Meeting,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lindheimer Chapter Monthly Meeting with Guest Speaker:  Susan James\, "Ungardening"
DESCRIPTION:Location: Tye Preston Memorial Library\, 16311 S. Access Road\, Canyon Lake\, Texas 78133.  Social time 5:30 p.m.\, business meeting 5:40 p.m.\, Plant-of-the-Month 5:50 p.m.\, hour-long program 6:20 p.m.  All presentations are available via Zoom and are recorded for our Youtube channel. \n\n\n\nSusan James resides near Canyon Lake\, TX and has had a lifelong interest in plants.  In addition to extensive reading\, personal research\, and observation on the subject\, she is a class of 2016 LMN graduate\, past NPSOT Lindheimer chapter president and has worked as the gardener for grounds of the Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country.  Past activities include plant surveys for Bracken Bat Cave\, Canyon Lake Gorge and a variety of private properties in the area.  Background includes a degree in microbiology from Michigan State University\, graduate studies in electron microscopy at the University of Illinois\, various articles\, patented research at DuPont Dow Elastomers and sales and sales management for Fisher Scientific.
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/lindheimer-chapter-monthly-meeting-2/
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SUMMARY:Why Native Plants? - April 17
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our April chapter meeting where we take a fun look at the who\, what\, where\, when\, why\, and how of native plants. We will grow your native plant vocabulary\, cultivate some knowledge\, and sow some seeds for the change we want to see in the world. Whether you are a native plant novice or a wildscaping whiz\, this will be a great chance to ask questions all the questions you may have been afraid to ask before. If you stump the board member presenters\, we can poll the crowd or add things to our list of future presentation topics! \n\n\n\nOne of our goals this year is to grow our membership\, and this is a great opportunity to bring a friend\, spouse\, grandchild\, or whoever wants to learn more about native plants.  \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers – Doreen Gallevo and Josh Kelly \n\n\n\nDoreen has been a board member for the Houston Chapter since 2023\, and was elected chapter president this year. She has been a hard core native plant gardener for seven years\, and is passionate about all ecological services plants provide like supporting declining invertebrate populations\, flood mitigation\, cooling\, and carbon capture. Having completed NPSOT’s Native Landscape Certification Program (NLCP)\, she is now engaging in native landscape design projects. Containing well over 100 native species\, her yard is registered as a National Wildlife Federation habitat\, Houston Audubon bird-friendly space\, Texas Pocket Prairie\, and Homegrown National Park.  \n\n\n\nJosh is a native Houstonian and recently became our chapter vice president. He is a commercial landscape construction project manager and is determined to change how our landscape industry functions from the inside. In his spare time\, he can be found botanizing in prairies or volunteering his time on native landscaping projects. He loves not only Texas native plants\, but also Texas critters\, like longhorns and the majestic raptors he has rescued from prairies. He even likes non-native bees\, who he helped tend as a teen/young adult with his father and brothers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur monthly chapter meetings are held on every 3rd Thursday\, January – November. Our meetings are free and open to the public thanks to our members and sponsors.  \n\n\n\nThe presentation will start at 7:00 pm\, but come at 6:45 pm for a meet and greet with snacks. \n\n\n\nHouston Arboretum and Nature Center \n\n\n\n610 Entrance (preferred)120 W Loop N FwyHouston\, TX 77024 \n\n\n\nWoodway Entrance4501 Woodway DriveHouston\, TX 77024 \n\n\n\nMeetings will also be live-streamed and recorded for later viewing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Houston Chapter Page
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/why-native-plants-april-17/
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SUMMARY:Chandor Gardens Nature Trail Bioblitz with Jeff Quayle\, Cross Timbers Chapter Event (Weatherford)- Saturday 3/19/2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first-ever BIOBLITZ on Sat.\, April 19 to catalogue new species on the Nature Trail using iNaturalist with Jeff Quayle\, an associate of Ft. Worth’s Botanical Research Institute of Texas. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required. Please register using the link below:https://www.tickettailor.com/…/npatfortworthcha…/1563667Please note a donation is not required to register. If you do not want to donate please enter zero when you sign up. \n\n\n\nMeeting Details: \n\n\n\nCome dressed to hike! Long pants recommended. We will be documenting as many species as possible. Please wear clothing appropriate to protect against insects such ticks and thorns\, or any other things you might expect to find in the Texas wild! Water recommended. \n\n\n\nLocation: Chandor Gardens Nature Trail \n\n\n\n\n8:45 a.m. Meet at the trailhead\n\n\n\n9:00 a.m. Bioblitz begins promptly
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/chandor-gardens-nature-trail-bioblitz-with-jeff-quayle-cross-timbers-chapter-event-weatherford-saturday-3-19-2025/
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