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Plant Lists find other plant lists at the Coastal Prairie Partnership Website www.coastalprairiepartnership.org
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NPSOTH Spring 2012 Field Trips Three field trips are scheduled for Spring 2012. All three trips will be on Sundays and led by Dr. Larry Brown. We will continue to meet in the parking lot east of the Memorial Park Arboretum. We meet at the Arboretum between 8 and 8:30 AM, and depart promptly at 8:30 AM. Please contact Paul Roling for any additional inquiries: 281-353-7413 or PRoling@att.net. Sunday, March 25: University of Houston Clear Lake Campus. Near the parking lots in the back part of the University of Houston Clear Lake Campus, fields of flowers abound each spring. The underlying soil is composed of clays. The campus is about 30 miles southeast of the Arboretum. For people near the Clear Lake area, we will meet you in the back parking lots of the campus at about 9:15 AM.
Sunday, April 15: Old Riley Fuzzel Road Preserve/Peckinpaugh Preserve. On the Spring Creek Greenway Project, two parks on the Montgomery County side of Spring Creek offer a large selection of flowering plants in the deep fine sandy loams along Spring Creek and around Alligator Pond. These two preserves are about 30 miles north of the Arboretum. For those from the north side of town, we will meet you by the Exxon station on the southeast corner of FM-2920 off I-45 at about 9:10 AM.
Sunday, April 29: Russ Pitman Park. Russ Pitman Park covers 4 acres in the city of Bellaire. Hiking trails meander throughout the park, which has many mature trees, a shady wetland, a pocket prairie, flowerbeds and much greenery between. The park, on Newcastle Street in Belaire, is six miles south of our Arboretum parking lot. For those closer to the park than the arboretum, we will meet you at the parking lot on Evergreen Street on the south side of the park, around 8:45 AM.
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Meetings are held January to November at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center in Memorial Park www.houstonarboretum.org Speaker: Jessalyn Ballard, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, "Eradicating Invasive Plants in the Buffalo Bayou Watershed"
Meet at 7:00 pm Program at 7:30 pm Houston Chapter Native Plant Society Meetings - Please Join Us, we'll have refreshments and door prizes and we would love to meet you! Visitors are Welcome at all Meetings and Field trips! January 19, 2012 - Katy Emde "Moths: Why We Need Them and How to Create Habitats for Them Using Native Plants."at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center in Memorial Park www.houstonarboretum.org" February 16, 2012- Matt Weaver, "The Affect of the Current Drought on Our Trees", at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center in Memorial Park www.houstonarboretum.org March 15, 2012- Dr. Jeff Ross, "Houston Botanic Garden" and Flo Hannah "Saving the College Park Prairie" March 25 Field Trip to University of Houston Clear Lake April 15 Field Trip to Old Riley Fuzzel Road Preserve/Peckinpaugh Preserve April 19, 2012- Jaime Gonzalez, Katy Prairie Conservancy "The Coastal Prairie Partnership's Native Plant Great Grow-Out Program" April 29 Field Trip to Russ Pitman Park in Bellaire May 17, 2012- Jessalyn Ballard, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, "Eradicating Invasive Plants in the Buffalo Bayou Watershed" June 21, 2012- Marissa Sipocz, Wetland Program Manager, "Texas Coastal Watershed Program Restoration Project" July 19, 2012- Dr. Charles Allen, Naturalist and Author, "Wild Flowers of East Texas and the Gulf Coast August 16, 2012- Jason Singhurst, Texas Parks & Wildlife Botanist and Author, "Rare Native Plants of Texas" September 20, 2012- Larry Allain, National Wetlands Research Center, "Beneficial Insects" October 18, 2012- Dr. Bob Randall, Urban Harvest Founding Executive Director, “The Role of Native Plants in Year-Around-Gardening in Houston” November 15, 2012- Annual Plant & Seed Swap and Social December 20, 2012- Annual Holiday Dinner Mailing Address: P.O. Box 131254, Houston, TX 77219
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