Twelve members attended the South Texas NPSOT meeting, held at the La Retama library in Corpus Christi at 10 AM on Saturday, 27 May, 2023. The meeting was called to order at 10:08 by Vice-President Karen Easton in the absence of President Katie Swanson. Ray Kirkwood moved that we accept the minutes from April’s meeting. Alese Smith seconded and minutes were approved as written.
OLD BUSINESS
Monarch Project
Ray Kirkwood gave information about a planned meeting with Michael Womack of Corpus Christi botanical gardens set up by Ernie Schertz, who could not be present. They (Ernie, Ray, maybe Shelly Maher) will meet at the Gardens with Michael on June 12 to discuss ways to enhance the plantings around the butterfly exhibit with larval and nectaring plants for butterflies coming through our area. Ray also talked about new signage for plants on the nature trail that we could help with.
Chapter logo
The Turk’s Cap has been decided as our logo. Now we just need an artist to design it for us. If anyone knows of anyone with any artistic ability that would like to try that, please reach out to them and let us know. Failing that we can go through a company that Katie Swanson suggested and get one done for about $340. Discussion was tabled until the next meeting.
New Business
Julia with the Corpus Christi La Retama library introduced herself to us prior to our meeting. Ray and Kris Kirkwood suggested that we might be able to help them with speakers for a garden group, “Green Thumbs”, that they have put together at the library, He offered Ernie Schertz, Janet McCrea, Brigid Berger, Kris Kirkwood, or Katie Swanson as potential speakers.
Next meeting will be at the Harte Library at 10:00 am on Saturday, June 24. Joan Salge will be our speaker on xeriscape gardening.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:24, after which we went to Blucher Park to check out the native plants there.
Rebecca Elzner,
Secretary ST NPSOT
