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This annual plant sale is where you can stock up on your tomato and pepper plants and ask questions about their planting, care and harvesting. There will be a symposium in the Auditorium at 8:00 before the sale starts.  Sale time is 9:00 am to 1:00 or when the plants are sold out! Master Gardener volunteers organize the plants sales annually as joint educational and fund-raising events. All sales feature plants chosen to do well in our part of Texas.Click here to view the sale catalog.
Native grasses, flowers, shrubs, and trees – perfect for attracting butterflies, bees, and other pollinators to your yard or garden. Proceeds benefit the Arboretum’s conservation and education efforts. Members receive discounts on all plant sale purchases. Some of the plants for sale this year include, Arrowood Viburnum, Blue Sage, Common Persimmon, Coral Sage, Esperanza, Frog Fruit, Hibiscus, Oakleaf Hydrangea, Red Indigo, Strawberry Bush, Texas Coneflower and Wild Indigo. See the full plant list.
Erin Mills, the new Cockrell Butterfly Center Director, highlights some of the plants at this big annual sale that butterfly folks would like to see used more often. Never been to the Cockrell Butterfly Center? You’re missing out on one of Houston true treasures, a delightful experience for both adults and children alike . . . but especially for children.
As part of its mission to educate all of us about the jewels we can attract to our gardens, the Center offers for sale a wide variety of nectar plants for butterflies and host plants for their caterpillars. Plenty of experts will be on hand to answer butterfly gardening questions and help you to create the perfect butterfly habitat.
Seventeen years ago, Mary Ellen Beaupre contacted me at the Chronicle asking for some publicity on a “Plant Swap.” Over the years, I’ve watched this swap grow into the major event it is today. Best of all, Mary Ellen was always happy to let me share her expertise and undoubtedly has been a major help to so many of our now thriving plant swaps. Certainly folks have been swapping plants for eons. But organizing one successful enough to last all these years takes a lot of planning and volunteer hours. So a tip o’ the trowel to this group and I’m thrilled to have Mary Ellen’s observations below.
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This annual plant sale is where you can stock up on your Spring perennials and ask questions about their planting and care. There will be a symposium in the Auditorium at 8:00 before the sale starts.  Sale time is 9:00 am to 1:00 or when the plants are sold out! Master Gardener volunteers organize the plants sales annually as joint educational and fund-raising events. All sales feature plants chosen to do well in our part of Texas.Click here to view the sale catalog.
Discover the numerous benefits of a landscape designed with local native plants with Mercer Botanic Gardens on Saturday, October 7, 2017, from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (see below for schedules). Registration includes admission to native plant presentations, live local flora identification, brunch, door prizes, special shopping hours, and a local native plant garden tour. Continuing Education Units are available from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, Harris County Master Gardeners, Montgomery County Master Gardeners, and Texas Master Naturalists. TMS Members $30; non-members $35. Seating is limited and registration is required. Register online at www.themercersociety.org or call The Mercer Society at 713-274-4166. The Texas native plant sale has free entry and is open to all.
Workshop: 8:30 AM –1:30 PM.; Plant Sale: 10:30 AM –4 PM. Exclusive shopping for workshop attendees: 8:30 AM –10:30 AM.