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Two new chapters were announced at the quarterly board meeting in Wichita Falls on April 18. Lake Country Chapter will meet in Mt. Pleasant and Four Corners Chapter will meet in Texarkana.
Both new chapters are planning big kick-off meetings in June, according to spokeswoman Belinda McCoy McLaughlin. Lake Country’s kickoff will be 2 pm June 6 at the Titus County Texas AgriLife Extension Center. The Four Corners kickoff will be June 27 in Texarkana at a location that will be announced later.
Greg Grant will be the featured speaker at both kickoff events. He is a contributing editor for Texas Gardening magazine and a research associate at Pineywoods Native Plant Center at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Grant received the Lynn Lowrey Memorial Award for horticultural achievement at the Annual Symposium in 2008 for his development of pink turk’s cap, or Malvaviscus drummondii x M arborea ‘Pam Puryear.’
Lake Country Chapter plans regular monthly meetings on the first Thursday of the month at 7 pm at the Titus County extension office. Four Corners is still looking for a suitable meeting place, but hopes to announce regular meeting times soon.
Another East Texas chapter, Caddo Wildflower, is changing their meeting location to Atlanta, Texas. Ms. McLaughlin said they would now meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month at Home Enterprises, at the junction of TX43 and TX77.
The new chapters bring the total of new chapters to three for the year. The Young County Wildflower Power Chapter was established in January and meets in Graham.
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