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Event Series Native Garden Workday

Native Garden Workday

Texas Museum of Handmade Furniture 1370 Churchill Drive, New Braunfels, Texas, United States

Please join us at the Texas Museum of Handmade Furniture to help maintain the Lindheimer Chapter's native demonstration garden. Please bring water, closed toe shoes, gloves, and your favorite gardening tools. Contact Craig Bruska at craigbruska@hotmail.com for details and to confirm the workday.

How to Start Your Own Native Plant Butterfly Garden

ACE 21st Century Earth Day Family Event: Volunteer to present before a group of Russell Elementary School parents on How to Start Your Own Native Plant Butterfly Garden. Russell Elementary School, Brownsville. If anyone would like to help, let me know. rio-grande-valley-chapter@gmail.com

April Trinity Forks Business Meeting & Program – Native Bees

6:30pm – Social time7:00pm – Zoom opens and meeting begins We hope you can join our meeting in person at TWU's Ann Stuart Science Complex.  Campus parking is openafter 6:00pm. If you can’t join us in person, we invite you to our Zoom meeting.ZOOM PARTICIPANTS ONLY: Please Register in advance forthis meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYodeCtrzoiE9LnBQR0XcOYymsF2Li5-B4G After registering, youwill receive a […]

Native Plants – Where Would We Be Without Them?

https://zoom.us/j/99094828078 Topic: There is an intrinsic relationship between our native plants, insects, birds and land and marine mammals.  Insects, which appeared on Earth about 480 million years ago, have co-evolved with plants. Native Oaks, for instance, support over 500 species of caterpillars. Native milk weed maintains the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly that we […]

2024 City Nature Challenge – Bioblitz

Started in 2016 as a competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find […]

Texas Wildflower Day!

The fourth Saturday in April is Texas Wildflower Day! The state NPSOT Social Media campaign will begin on April 21st with wildflower images all week and culminate on the actual Wildflower Day. If anyone has great wildflower images, please post them on our Facebook page and I can use them to contribute to the state […]

Keep Mercedes Beautiful – Trees in the Ground

Come out and volunteer with Keep Mercedes Beautiful. Morning and afternoon shifts available. Sign up. If anyone has any questions, let me know. rio-grande-valley-chapter@gmail.com

Dowell Ranch Thistle Thwack!

Join us to help our partners at NPAT for an invasive species THISTLE THWACK at Dowell Ranch! (Just south of Austin). Superstar volunteers needed on April 27th to help remove Maltese Star-Thistle. This aggressive plant has popped up in our front pasture restoration area and we need to remove them with people power before it […]

Trinity Forks Spring 2024 Plant Sale

Time: 10:00am-12:00noon or sellout Location: Flower Mound High School, 3411 Peters Colony (for your GPS) – In the back parking lot at Sagebrush Drive and Old Settlers Road, at the Keep Flower Mound Beautiful Spring Trash-off and Environmental Fair - see Map We'll have:Over 2000 native plantsKnowledgeable volunteersLow prices Bring your own flats or boxes and cash, […]

Level 1 – Introduction to Native Landscapes

Saturday, May 4 — Clear Lake — Level 1 Class - In-person or online. Learn about the benefits of native plants, desirable plants for your area and design considerations for your landscape.

$45

Plant Sale NPSOT Dallas – May 4, 2024

Save the date!  Join us for our plant sale at Native Plants and Prairie Day on May 4, a free event celebrating our Blackland Prairies! Don’t miss this chance to […]

Q2 State Board Meeting – May 4

Chapter members are welcome, but not everyone may vote. Voting members include chapter presidents, executive officers, and state standing committee chairs. Native Plant Society of Texas members receive an email […]

May Leadership Meeting

Chapter Leadership meeting: our officers will meet from 6pm - 7pm. Everyone is welcome to attend. Let me know and I will send you the meeting invitation. Our Chapter Leadership […]

Chapter Meeting at Cibolo Nature Center Auditorium

May 7 - Chapter Meeting at Cibolo Nature Center Auditorium - 6:00pm - Social Time; 6:45pm - Chapter Announcements, followed by the Speaker Speaker: Leslie L. Bush is a paleoethnobotanist, an […]

2024 Ashe Juniper Symposium

The 2024 Ashe Juniper Symposium by Biodiversity Works will take place on May 8th and 9th, 2024 at the Commons Conference Center in Austin, Texas. The goal of the symposium is to advance our collective understanding of the science of Ashe juniper and facilitate applications of this understanding into management and conservation of sustainable, resilient […]

Executive Committee Meeting – May 8

Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) Executive Committee meetings occur monthly and any member may attend. Contact the Executive Director prior to the meeting at state@npsot.org for Zoom and applicable document links. […]

Sorelle Farms Mother’s Day/Spring Festival

Join Sorelle Farms in Mineola for their second annual spring event celebrating mothers. Bring Mom and celebrate her with an afternoon of food, music, plants and more! And don't forget […]

Spring Social at Landa Park – with a bioblitz using iNaturalist

Landa Park  New Braunfels NPSOT is transforming the usual July summer social into a May spring fling!  A pot-luck picnic at Landa Park will be held on Monday, May 13 at 5:30 pm and we will hold our own bioblitz, documenting plants, animals, organisms of all kinds, using the iNaturalist app. If you are inexperienced […]

Chapter Meeting -The Importance of Dark Skies

This presentation provides information about the effects of artificial light on the natural world, ways you can change your own impact and hopefully, that of others such as neighbors and your community. Join us at Riverside Nature Center. Business meeting at 1:30 pm, presentation at 2 pm. This event is free and open to the […]

Welcoming Pollinators to Your Yard

Supporting all pollinators, especially honey bees, is so important, and there are many things each of us can do on our property to help them along. Our program, “Welcoming Pollinators […]