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Prairie Rose June 2019Newsletter
Prairie Rose Chapter of NPSOT MEETING
JUNE 22, 2019
LAKE GRANBURY MASTER GARDENERS
DEMONSTRATION GARDEN TOUR
1410 W. PEARL ST, 10 A.M.
Come join us for a great morning walking through the Master Gardeners beautiful demonstration garden in Granbury. Richard Hinnant, President of the Lake Granbury Master Gardeners will be guiding our tour. Just a few years ago this garden was a flat and empty piece of land, and now it’s a beautiful garden.
Our tour begins at 10 a.m., and we’ll meet at the entrance to the garden. If you’re unfamiliar with Granbury, Hwy. 144 comes to a “T” at Pearl St. Instead of turning right towards the courthouse square, you’ll turn left. Although the address states W. Pearl, you’ll have to turn right onto Deputy Miller Drive. The garden will be on the right.
NATIVE PLANT GARDEN UPDATE & WORK DAY
If you’ve walked or driven by our demonstration garden in Glen Rose, you’ve probably admired how fabulous it looks this year. It seems like every time I go by something new is blooming. We are very excited to announce that our dirt path, which is shaped similar to a wishbone, is having flagstones laid this week. The stones have already been purchased and, weather permitting, work will begin Wednesday evening.
This Saturday, June 15 from 8:30 – 10:30 a.m., is our workday. We need additional help this Saturday, so please take a couple of hours and come down and help out. In addition to working in our native garden, we are assisting in planting the rock planters around the square. The timing is to have everything look as good as possible for the first annual Glen Rose Wine and Art Festival. Half of the proceeds from this event will go towards beautifying and maintaining the courthouse square, so it’s important we support this effort. Last Saturday, several of us cleaned up and “readied” the planters for this planting so it should be easy. We will also be working with them to redesign and recommend more permanent plantings.
MERIDIAN STATE PARK PROJECT
We’ve been asked to help design a walkway in the park and identify plants on that path at Meridian State Park. The project is working its way through the State approval process. It’s estimated that work could begin this fall. This project will be a coalition of several groups, and our work will be advisory only.
JULY 2019 MEETING
FIFTY SHADES OF GREEN, BY RICKY LINEX, NRCS
JULY 22, 2019
CITIZENS CENTER, GLEN ROSE, 6 P.M.
Mark your calendars. Our July meeting will be on the top 50 native plants for landscaping. This is a “must attend” event. Ricky Linex is an incredibly knowledgeable and interesting speaker who will not only entertain us, but cover the material in any depth necessary. There will be a handout listing all 50 plants in order of presentation and by their common as well as scientific name so you can easily take notes beside these plants. Some plants included in his program are American Basketflower and Bluebells.
Ricky Linex is a wildlife biologist for the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) headquartered in Weatherford, Texas. He works 51 counties in North Central Texas, and has written a plant identification book, Range Plants of North Central Texas, A Land Users Guide to Their Identification, Value and Management.
The meeting will be held at the:
Somervell County Citizens Center
209 SW Barnard Street in Glen Rose
6:00 p.m. on Monday, July 22.
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