April 2019 Newsletter

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NATIVE PLANT SALE APRIL 20, 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.

NATIVE PLANTS FOR THE SHADE

PRESENTATION APRIL 20, 9 & 10 a.m.

Glen Rose Courthouse Square by our Native Plant Garden

It’s time for our spring plant sale! In lieu of our April meeting, Donna Hagar will be giving a short presentation on native plants for the shady areas in your flower beds. We’re sometimes so focused on our wonderful sun plants we forget that there are also good plants for the shade, and most of us have some area in our yard that requires these plants.

Shade plants

Donna will give her presentation at 9:00 a.m and again at 10:00 a.m.

Plants for both sun and shade will be available to purchase, and we have great prices.
Come join us and tell all your friends and neighbors about the sale and talk. Last fall, we sold out of plants early, so plan on coming earlier rather than later. We hope to see you there.

PLANT SALE WORK DAY

Thursday, April 11 at 6 p.m.

PLANT SALE WORK DAY
We need your help to pot plants from our native garden for the plant sale. Our regular work day, April 6, was rained out fairly early and before we could accomplish much. Come join us on Thursday, April 11 at 6 p.m. We’ll spend that evening potting plants. We have several areas that we can thin or remove plants for the sale. These will be used in addition to plants that Karen Richardson purchases for sale. If enough people show up, some of us can continue to weed the walkways and other areas so our garden looks good before the sale.
If you can’t make this work day, please feel free to come down and weed any time you have available. The Smallflower Baby Blue Eyes and Velcro plants should all be removed, along with other weeds, particularly on our walkways.
Please bring gloves, gardening tools including clippers and a small shovel if you have one.

PLANT FAMILY OF THE MONTH

I’m sorry to announce there’s been a slight delay in continuing our plant family of the month. We hope to continue our series shortly.

NORTH AMERICAN PRAIRIE CONFERENCE: HEALTHY PRAIRIES, HEALTHY WATERSHEDS

Clear Lake Texas, June 2-5, 2019

This year is the 25th anniversary of this event and the second time it’s being held in Texas. Hosted by the Coastal Prairie Partnership, Native Prairies Association of Texas, Katy Prairie Conservancy and The Nature Conservancy-Texas and the Environmental Institute of Houston, this should be an interesting conference. Registration is now open. Register before April 22 at http://www.northamericanprairie.org/ and receive the early registration rate of $260 for all conference activities including field trips, banquet, speakers, etc. The link will provide you with information on the agenda, speakers, field trips and more.

MONARCH STEWARD TRAINING CLASS
APRIL 12, 2019
Texas Discovery Gardens 301 MLK Blvd.
Fair Park Gate 6
Dallas, TX 75210

There are some spaces open in the Monarch Steward training class. This is a one-day course on monarch biology, ecology and conservation. You’ll learn the basics of monarch habitat creation and conservation and you’ll leave the course with the knowledge and confidence to engage diverse groups to take action on behalf of the monarch butterfly.
Registration is required. Registration fee is $65/person that includes access to digital materials to create your own presentation, printed materials, box lunch and refreshments. Click on the link below to register:

Link to Register

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