Shannon Brown, our speaker leading into this hill country gardening season, creates Central Texas rain gardens with the native plants that thrive in our soil and temperature . Find out
“I’ll show you practical ways to build gardens that will enhance your property and be less work as time goes by,” noted Paula Stone. “I once heard someone say that, ‘The gardening should get easier as the gardener gets older.’”
Paula Stone, Vice President of the Fredericksburg Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas, will share her extensive knowledge about landscape design using native Texas plants on April 23 from 6:30-8 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Halle, Fredericksburg.
Esperanza, also known as “yellow bells” and “yellow trumpet,” is a native shrub with a tropical feel. Call it eye candy for your summer landscape – if you get it planted during the spring! Planted in the spring, they will have months of our warm weather for root growth before the first hard freeze.
Meetings are held the 3rd Monday of each month. All meetings are open to members and the public.Join us starting at 6:30 for social time, chapter announcements and presentations start at 7:00pm Can’t make it
For some, the name “sumac” can conjure up negative connotations. Whether it was past encounters with Poison Sumac (not found in North Texas) or the invasive Chinese Sumac, many people
We are proud to announce that we have revamped our Wildscapes Grant Program. Funding availability has increased to $2,000 per project, and we are now distributing funding pools twice a year.
Learn what “xeriscape” means and its basic principles. See an actual yard transformation and examples of xeriscapes. Suggested plants for our ecoregions are discussed.
Catch a vision of how to view the areas of your garden. Through technical difficulties we didn’t manage to create a YouTube video, but we did capture a phone video. Create your own Nature Center with all you can glean from this exploration.
“I’m excited to talk about the Fredericksburg Nature Center and the Friends’ plans to construct an Interpretive Center at the park, which will include a meeting venue, educational programming space, exhibits, expanded native plant gardens, and a children’s play area,” noted Lonnie Childs, the October speaker for the chapter monthly meeting. “The new Interpretive Center will be a center for environmental education with a specific emphasis on children.”
“The more we mimic Nature, the easier our job.” Deborah Simmons
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