Native Plant Society of Texas

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Our state offices in Fredericksburg are boasting beautiful new landscaping thanks to generous donors and volunteers from the Fredericksburg Chapter.

Fredericksburg Chapter members designed the garden and held work parties in May to install the landscape. Cooperating rains have helped tp produce a lovely new garden.

Financing came from $1850 in donations received from various chapters and from Dr George Jury and Lonnie and Valarie Childs. In addition the Friendly Natives Nursery donated over $350 worth of plants

A few additional features are planned including some identifying signage, according to Lonnie Childs.

The Society offices are located in an historic “sunday house” owned by the Gillespie County Historical Society in Fredericksburg.

Visitors are always welcome at the office which is located just one block off Main Street near the Pioneer Museum and the Visitor’s Welcome Center.

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Call it serendipity but there we were, six years into our retirement in East Texas walking with a biologist for TPWD while he identified plants in and around a pitcher plant bog on our land. How else, if not for serendipity, would my husband Bart and I have known a unique pitcher plant bog existed on our land? read more »

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The thriving milkweed patch found on a lush bank of the San Antonio River is just a short walk south of the Pearl Brewery, the bustling culinary center and architectural centerpiece of the city’s Broadway corridor renaissance. On a Saturday morning enlivened by the city’s most popular Farmer’s Market, locals of all ages wander both sides of the river as a natural gas-powered tourist barge silently plies the placid waters. read more »

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The 11th annual Spring Symposium will focus on a critical concern for all of us – water conservation challenges and landscape use. Presented by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and NPSOT, the symposium will be February 25 – 26 in Austin.  read more »

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It would be a rare individual who does not have some appreciation for this area of Texas that we call the Hill Country. I am sure that such an individual exists but I have never met him personally. The rest of us seldom tire of letting others know where we live and how fortunate we consider ourselves for being here.

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We have many different kinds of native plants in our yard, not only to conserve water, but also because we think they make landscaping our yard more interesting and enjoyable. read more »