Fredericksburg Chapter Resources

LANDSCAPE PLANNING

     Samples of Garden Planning Maps:     6 individual diagrams from Deede Wright to lead you through the process of designing your own landscape. Can be used with the YouTube video Xeriscaping Your Yard.

     Gardening and Landscaping Guides

• • • Wasowski, Sally, and Andy Wasowski. Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region. Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1988. (For some members, this is their “Go To” book)
    • Hudson, Virginia (Ginger)  Landscape Maintenance for Central Texas Gardens   iBook
      
      General Reference
    • The Fredericksburg Nature Center is a wonderful local resource for viewing and learning about plants in garden and natural settings. Their facebook page provides a tour all by itself.
    • Hill Country Master Naturalists offer public talks on many topics of interest to property owners, as well as the Land Management Assistance Program designed to help you understand what you have and apply good stewardship practices.
    • Hill Country Master Gardeners offer information and a variety of programs to help you become a better gardener.  
    • The LBJ Wildflower Center is a go-to resource foralmost any kind of questions you may have about native plants.
    • The Native Prairie Association of Texas is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of native prairies in Texas
    • TPWD Nongame and Rare Species Program has crafted native pollinator management guidelines landowners can use to develop their wildlife management plan for wildlife tax valuation.

     General Plant Lists

Recommended native plants for our area.

     Plants for Birds and Pollinators

      Recommended from experience: native drought-tolerant-plants for summer and fall

      Fall bloomers

     The LBJ Wildflower Center website has a variety of special collections designed for central Texas gardeners searching for ideas concerning specific challenges: dry shade?  drought tolerance?  Wetlands?  Containers? .

     Local Sources for Native Plants

• Blue Oak Trading Company, 1834 Junction Highway, Kerrville, 830-315-2583
• Natives of Texas, 4256 Medina Highway, Kerrville, 830-896-2169
• Plant Haus 2, 604 Jefferson Street, Kerrville, 830-792-4444
• The Gardens at The Ridge, 13439 S. Ranch Road 783 (Harper Rd.), Kerrville, 830-896-0430
• Friendly Natives, 1107 N. Llano Street, Fredericksburg, 830-997-6288
• Medina Garden Nursery, 13417 TX Highway 16, Medina, 830-589-2771

 

     Help the Monarchs
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the US Department of Agriculture.has created a downloadable ranked list of the best wildflowers for Monarchs. (Important Plants of the Monarch Butterfly
Southern Great Plains Staff Guide) .  Not everything in the list is native to the Edwards Plaateau, but a great number of them are. This is a good place to start your exploration.

The above page is the most explicit page for us on the website produced by NCIS.  Monarchs, the title of the entire site, is worth the exploration .

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT PLANNING RESOURCES

Wildlife Management Plans http://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_1813.pdf

Landowner Incentive Program http://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/land/private/lip/

Natural Resources Conservation Service: Pollinators and Insects  http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/plantsanimals/pollinate/

 

FORESTRY CARE ( for whatever size forest you have):

tfsfrd.tamu.edu/MapMyProperty/

texastreeplanting.tamu.edu

tfsweb.tamu.edu   General urban and community guides to trees and forest health

Central Texas Restoration and Recovery Program West Texas Nursery    tfsweb.tamu.edu/WestTexasNursery/  (806) 892-3572

texasoakwilt.com

     Texas Forest Service Regional Contact

Robert Edmonson, Biologist III / ISA Certified Arborist, Texas A&M Forest Service
P.O. Box 1718 (mailing) 208 South Lady Bird Lane (physical), Johnson City, TX 78636
830-868-7949 (office)
979-220-0913 (cell)
redmonson@tfs.tamu.edu (email)

 

     Taking Samples

Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory – 979-845-8032 / 979-845-6499 fax

 

WHAT IS IT? Plant Identification

Seek by iNaturalist Search your app store for this app for your phone/camera. Designed by the iNaturalist team it was created for individuals and children who simply want to point, click, and have an immediate idea what that plant or animal is. No registration needed.

• Get outside and point the Seek Camera at living things

• Identify wildlife, plants, and fungi and learn about the organisms all around you

iNaturalist.org    Is the more extensive version of the crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool. You can use it to record your own observations, get help with identifications, collaborate with others to collect this kind of information for a common purpose, or access the observational data collected by iNaturalist users. Download the app at your app store.

An extensive catalogue of native plant images can be found at http://www.texaswildflowerpictures.com/wf_index.htm

Two general resources and three iBooks are recommended by members

• • Enquist, Marshall. Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country. Austin: Lone Star Botanical, 1988 (Kathy’s #1 book for ID) Austin conservationist Marshall Enquist provides detailed descriptions and color illustrations of 427 wildflower species. Broad in scope, the book covers everything from the smallest meadow flowers to the largest flowering trees and shrubs.

• • Linex, Ricky J.. Range Plants of North Central Texas: A Land Users Guide to Their Identification, Value, and Management. Independent publisher, 2014. (Find at seedsource.com and NRCS offices) “there are multiple photos of each of the 324 plants described, including pictures of seeds and flowers in many cases.”

• • Woody Plants of the Texas Hill Country, Sandra Magee and Scott Magee. Apple Books.

• • Hill Country Grasses, Sandra Magee and Scott Magee. Apple Books.

• • Common Texas Hill Country Forbs, Scott Magee. Apple Books.

 

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