Join us Tuesday March 24 for “Gardens of Texas: Growing with Resilience”
Pam Penick draws from the visionary landscapes in her new book, Gardens of Texas, in sharing how resilient gardeners are embracing change, shifting their plant palette toward Texas natives, nurturing wildlife, and finding deeper joy in the process. Discover practical strategies for creating gardens that weather the storms and grow stronger — and see how cultivating resilience in your landscape can also cultivate it in yourself.
The Fredericksburg chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas meets the 4th Tuesday of each month.
6:30 greeting friends new and old
7:00 ~ This month ‘s business meeting & presentation:
This March 24 chapter presentation will be unavailable on our YouTube channel
We encourage you to make every effort to attend in person as Pam Penick offers strategies to adapt gardening to our hot, changing climate.
Lessons Learned Running a Native Plant Nursery.
Nurseries didn’t offer native plants in the early 1990s when the Winninghams began searching for those plants that thrive and support the ecology of the Texas Hill Country. As they explored western Texas as far as Big Bend, they began collecting seeds and cuttings, including some for the madrone trees that the nursery has become famous for. “There are a whole host of positive aspects about a native plant business. I want to share the amazing and unexpected things I have leaned.” Dr David Winningham said.
Celebrating Ward Miller (1937-2026)
Ward Miller – vice president in 2011, president in 2015, a gardener (but really more a landscaper), a good friend and mentor -always. Ward passed away Monday, February 2, in Austin at Austin Heart. He left his footprints on our lives. His influence continues.
Winter Rosettes and Seedlings for Identification
Saucier opens her presentation with rosette photos of native as well as invasive plants as they begin to stretch toward spring. Each is followed with a picture of the the fully developed plant in bloom.
Now for the decision in your garden and field. Which are weeds that are more easily dealt with now. Which are the flowers we enjoy fully that we need to transplant while they are young.
Harbingers of Spring
Kathy Saucier, our resident Certified Wildscape instructor, opens January with a challenge: find the harbingers of spring. Look closely! Not for migrating birds, but on the ground, past the grasses, past the leaf litter.
“Do you see those tiny rosettes that are nestled against the earth?”
Where is our chapter?
If you draw an equilateral triangle with Austin and San Antonio anchoring the easternmost points.
The triangle climbs onto the Edwards Plateau, its tip touching Fredericksburg and Gillespie County. This is Hill Country!
The pink dome of Enchanted Rock rises to the north of us.
This entire area is an intricate patchwork of oak and juniper woodlands, savannas interwoven with grasslands, tree mottes and shrubs. You have reached the homeland of the Fredericksburg chapter of the Native Plant Society
Ours is truly a rich and diverse natural heritage.
Please join us in exploring the heart of our native Edwards Plateau ecosystem.
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