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MARCH 2023 NEWSLETTER
What a difference a few weeks make! The first day of spring may not be until March 20, but spring feels all around us. I love this time of year when we move from our winter dormancy to spring renewal. I already see new growth from many of my plants, and our early-blooming trees are blossoming. If you haven’t finished your spring clean-up in your flowerbeds, now is the time. Of course, I consider March our trickster month. So many times our plants are greening up, the Peach trees are in full bloom and bam! a hard freeze just has to make one more pass through Texas. Our native plants are quite used to this and are seldom bothered by it; not so much the Peach trees.
March and April tend to be busy months. We have a number of activities planned for March and April and we’re hoping you can join us in enjoying them.
MARCH MEETING
FEATHERFEST
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
ACTON NATURE CENTER
6900 Smoky Hill Court
Granbury, TX
This is a fabulous event. Please come join us, and enjoy the day. We need help setting up and taking down, as well as staffing the booth. In addition, our main activity, and the one most enjoyed by kids everywhere, is making native seed balls that they can distribute and watch grow. After all, what kid doesn’t like to play with mud? Seed ball sessions are at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and we need extra help during that time period.
Last year, ANC added some nature walks by Dr. Billy Teals. He is unbelievably knowledgeable, particularly about anything bird or plant related, so his walks are very popular and geared more toward adults in the crowd. Come join us for a fun-filled day.
If you can help out, you can just respond to this email and it will get to us. Thanks!
https://actonnaturecenter.org/
DEMONSTRATION GARDEN WORK DAYS
Wednesday, March 15, 9 – 11 a.m.
Friday, March 31, 9 – 11 a.m.
We’re completely changing our work days schedules. Saturdays began to have too many conflicts, so it was becoming harder to schedule and have as many helpers as we need. We only schedule 2 hours at a time, so this isn’t a long, drawn-out work day.
Please plan on joining us, if possible, for one or both days. It’s a great way to meet other members and enjoy each other’s company in this great spring weather.
APRIL ACTIVITIES
SPRING PLANT SALE
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
DEMONSTRATION GARDEN BACK AREA
Mark your calendars. Our annual spring native plant sale is coming up quick. We’ll have our usual selection of great plants available, and for great prices. Please note that we are still having two reserved time slots, at 9 a.m. and at 9:30 a.m. These early time slots allow us to better help you find plants and for us to answer questions. After 10 a.m., it’s open to first come, first served. If you want to reserve a slot, feel free to respond to our newsletter email.
SPRING WING DING
SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
DINOSAUR VALLEY STATE PARK
1629 Park Rd. 59, Glen Rose
We’ve very excited about having a booth at this year’s Spring Wing Ding since we haven’t been able to attend the last 3 years (2020 closed for Covid, last 2 conflicted with our plant sale). This is a fun event and we use this opportunity to talk about the Native Plant Society of Texas, native plants and other species that use them such as Monarch butterflies. In addition, we will also hold our seed ball activity for the kids. Seed ball sessions will be at 11 and 1 p.m.
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