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Using biomimicry to make our landscape sustainable
From the knowledge we collect from observing natural systems, we can produce ecologically sound landscape designs that can enhance the quality and quantity of soil, air, water and wildlife habitats, as well as reduce the effects of erosion and flooding.
The “magic words”
Homeowner Associations appreciate hearing magic words too, particularly in reference to a landscape plan you’re advocating.
Standing cypress
If you like hummingbirds you will like Standing Cypress. Its profusion of red, inch-long trumpets are made to order for hummers.
Bexar Roots June 2015
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Join us in Austin for our fall symposium
Our 2015 Fall Symposium on October 15-18 at the Austin Airport Hilton will have a great line-up of speakers and field trips focusing on the four ecoregions that surround our state capital
Members tour the Cassandra Stewart Loos Prairie at Pineywoods Native Plant Center
Following the Spring Board Meeting at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Peter Loos led a small group through the center (photo).
Grant winner studies bee and plant interaction
A UT Austin graduate student studying native plant and bee communities has been awarded the Ann Miller Gonzalez Research Grant for 2015.
Scholarship winner named
A student from Tarleton State University becomes the first recipient of our Kate Hillhouse Scholarship
Summer board meeting to be in Fredericksburg
The State Board will hold its Summer 2015 quarterly meeting at the Gillespie County Historical Society in Fredericksburg on Saturday, July 18.
Spring blooms in Central Texas
Photographer Robert Kamper caught a few of the native plants blooming in a greenbelt and an adjacent wildscape garden in Williamson County last month.
Oasis For Wildlife Or High-Maintenance Still Life
by Delmar Cain – Boerne Chapter, Native Plant Society of TexasPublished in Boerne Star on May 1, 2015 A moist April can lift spirits, especially when the cold winds in March left reminders of cranky ankles and gimpy knees. As if in a cartoon the flowers seem to suddenly appear when the
Monarch garden grants announced for 2015
The Native Plant Society of Texas awarded over $11,000 in small grants this spring to 56 community gardens around the state to fund planting Monarch butterfly habitat.
