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Our Society’s home in Fredericksburg
The core of the house was built in the early 1880’s by the Staudt family and used as a Sunday House. At that time families that lived in the country often built a small two-story two-room house in town where they could stay on weekends when they shopped for supplies on Saturday and attended church on Sunday.
July-August 2005
NICE! Plant of the Month (Yucca rupicola) Description:Endemic to the Edwards Plateau, Twist-leaf yucca gets its name from its wonderful twisting leaves. It is a low-growing yucca without a visible stem with single or clustered heads of twisted, arching blue-green leaves 8-24 inches long. Flowers are held on stalks as
May 2005
NICE! Plant of the Month (Stachys coccinea) Description:Texas Betony, is a flowering and evergreen perennial, 12 to 18 inches tall or more. It naturally grows in moist crevices of the mountains of West Texas, west to Arizona, and northern Mexico. It produces red or pink tubular flowers and has a
April 2005
NICE! Plant of the Month (Gelsemium sempervirens) Description:Carolina Jessamine is an evergreen, perennial, flowering vine. Its natural range includes East Texas and much of the southeastern U.S. It produces fragrant, yellow, funnel-shaped flowers and is often one of the first plants to bloom in the spring. Gelsemium sempervirens has glossy
March 2005
NICE! Plant of the Month (Acer grandidentatum) Description:Bigtooth maple is a relic from the last ice age, 10,000 years ago. It is a native hardwood shrub or medium sized-tree of 20-30 feet, but under optimal conditions it can reach up to 50 feet tall. It has an open, rounded crown
February 2005
NICE! Plant of the Month (Opuntia engelmannii variety lindheimeri) Description:Texas Prickly Pear Cactus belongs to the Opuntia genus or group of cacti and is the most prevalent species of Opuntia found in Texas. Its natural range is from the Western Cross-Timbers, Rolling and High Plains, Edward’s Plateau, Rio Grande Plains,
June 2004
NICE! Plant of the Month (Capsicum annuum var. aviculare) Description:Chile Pequin is the native chile pepper from which many edible chilies have been derived. The natural range extends from tropical America through the southernmost tip of Texas north to Waco, east to Florida and west to Arizona. In the Hill
October 2003
NICE! Plant of the Month (Rhus lanceolata) Description:Flameleaf sumac, a thicket-forming, deciduous ornamental shrub or single-trunked tree, can be found on limestone and calcareous soils in the Edwards Plateau, Trans-Pecos, North and Central Texas, and New Mexico. It can reach a height of 10-20 feet tall. The plant’s common name
September 2003
NICE! Plant of the Month (Muhlenbergia spp.) Description:Gulf muhly is a native, perennial bunchgrass that usually reaches a height of 1 ½ to 3 feet. It grows in tall clumps and has glossy deep-green leaves. During the mid-fall blooming season, purplish pink flowers arise from tall stems. The tiny flowers
June 2003
NICE! Plant of the Month (Gaura lindheimeri) Description:Gaura lindheimeri is an interesting native perennial that grows 2-3 feet tall, but can get much taller in rich soils. It produces tall, slender and almost leafless flower stems above the body or basal leaves of the plant. When blown by the wind,
May 2003
NICE! Plant of the Month (Salvia roemeriana) Description:A great shade plant, named because it can also be found growing in the dense shade of Ashe junipers (mountain cedars). It also grows under oaks and mountain laurels. A small plant and well behaved, with little furry round or heart-shaped leaves with
October 2002
NICE! Plant of the Month (Aster spp.) Description:There are several species of blue-flowered asters growing wild in the Hill Country. Asters sold in nurseries may be one of these natives (difficult to tell apart), or may be a cultivated hybrid. They are usually identified as Aster spp., and their origin
