HCMG Blooms and Barrels Plant Sale. Native and adaptive plants for our region and rain barrels. Kerr County residence qualify for rebates thru Upper Guadalupe River Authority. Childrens Activity, Information Booths and Exhibitors. Tax Free Sale. Free admission, Hill Country Youth Event Center, 3875 Hwy 27, Kerrville 830-257-6568

March 28, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Highland Lakes Master Gardeners. Lawn and Garden Show: 9:15 a.m.,“Spring and Summer Vegetables“ Willard Horn, 10:30 a.m., “Drought Tolerant Plants” Robert and Sheryl Yantis, 11:45 a.m. “Free Plants You Didn’t Know You Had,” Amy Parke, 1:00 ;p.m., “War on Weeds” Suzy Buchanan. http://www.burnetcountyhighlandlakesmastergardener.org/2020-lawn--garden-show.html. For more information, Roxanne Dunegan 512.756.3059. Burnet Community Center. 401 E Jackson St, Burnet

March 28⋅8:00 a.m.-5:00pm, NPSOT San Antonio. NLCP Level 1 Class: Introduction to Native Landscapes. $45. Details and registration at https://npsot.org/wp/nlcp. San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Place, San Antonio

March 26, 1:00-2:30 p.m., San Antonio Zoo. Bob Waterman, Director of Horticulture, will lead a tour of the zoo grounds. Free. Contact Pam Umstead at pam@umstx.net by March 16 to allow time to arrange car pools. San Antonio Zoo, Brackenridge Park, 903 N St Mary's St, San Antonio

March 24, 6:30 p.m. social, followed by the meeting at 7:00 p.m., NPSOT Fredericksburg. Alan Smith, PhD, NPSOT FBG and plant ecologist, will present “Orchids? Native to Texas?” Memorial Presbyterian Church. Visitors welcome. 601 North Milam St, FBG

March 23, 6:15 p.m. social, followed by the meeting at 7:00 p.m., Hill Country Master Naturalists. Program TBA. GBNARC Auditorium. Visitors welcome. , 125 Lehmann Drive, KRVL

March 22,1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Headwaters at Incarnate Word. Patty Leslie Pasztor, Ethnobotanist, will lead a nature sanctuary native plant walk. Limited to 12. Details and registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sanctuary-native-plant-walk-with-patty-leslie-pasztor-tickets-87763638405. Free.   The Village at Incarnate Word (Christus Heritage Hall), 4707 Broadway Street, Alamo Heights

Sat, March 21, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., NPSOT Austin, Native Landscape Certification Program Level 1, Introduction to Native Landscapes. $45. Details and registration at https://npsot.org/wp/nlcp. Lakewood Club House.  7317 Lakewood Drive, Austin

March 21 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., San Antonio Water System, Cleve Powell, native plant propagator, will present “Native Milkweed Propagation,” including a lecture and hands-on preparation of seeds. $20. San Antonio Botanical Garden San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston Place, San Antonio

March 21, 7:45 a.m.–4:00 p.m., NPSOT Boerne, Native Landscape Certification Program Level 1, Introduction to Native Landscapes. $45. Details and registration at https://npsot.org/wp/nlcp. Cibolo Nature Center.  140 City Park Rd, Boerne

March 18, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Fredericksburg Community Ed/FBG NPSOT. Mary Frushour, HCMN and NPSOT member, will present “Create Your Own Pollinator Garden.” $20. To register, contact Rachel at 830.997.7182 or rachelm@fisd.org. FBG Middle School Library.

Tuesday, March 17, 1:00–2:00 p.m., Riverside Nature Center Assn. Eldon Sheffer will present “Celebrating Green,” a holistic overview of the evolution of plants emphasizing the myriad interconnections. Riverside Nature Center.   Riverside Nature Center, 150

March 17, 10:00 a.m., Hunt Garden Club. Malia Coleman, of Young Living Essential Oils will present “The Craft of Compounding Essential Oils and Their Benefits.” Hunt United Methodist Church. Visitors Welcome. 120 Merritt Road, Hunt

March 14, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Riverside Nature Center Assn. Karen Rockoff, certified arborist and master horticulturist, will talk about tree diseases, ball moss and animal damage. Riverside Nature Center. 150 Francisco Lemos St, KRVL

March 14, 10:00 a.m., HCMG presents Gardening 101, Home Grown Tomatoes. Free. Butt-Holdsworth Library. 505 Water Street, KRVL

March 14, 9:00 a.m.-noon, Cibolo Nature Center. Dick Park, Old Daley Ranch owner and birder, will share his experiences attracting birds to his ranch, including habitat enhancement with native plants. $25 members; $35 non-members. Register at Cibolo.org. Meet at Cibolo Nature Center parking lot at 9:00 to carpool to the ranch. CNC , 140 City Park Rd, Boerne

March 11, Rose Garden Club of Medina. Doris Howdeshell, board member and past chair, Keep Utopia Beautiful, will discuss the five projects. Utopia Senior Center. Contact Carol Hagemeier at 830.285.0035 for details and lunch order. Leaving Medina Community Center at 11:15 a.m. to carpool to Utopia.

March 10, 1:00 p.m. social, followed by the meeting at 1:30 p.m., NPSOT Kerrville. Marilyn McBroom Knight, Hill Country Master Naturalist, will present “Tiny Wildflowers.” Riverside Nature Center. Visitors welcome. 150 Francisco Lemos St, KRVL

March 7, 10:00 a.m. to noon, Cibolo Nature Center. Mike Mendez, master beekeeper and beekeeper for Jester King Brewery and Community First Village, will present an introduction to beekeeping. $15 members, $20 non-members. Register at Cibolo.org. Herff Farm Teaching Garden. - 33 Herff Road Boerne

March 5, noon–1:00pm, TAMU AgriLife. Webinar, Dr. Vanessa Corriher Olson, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Soil and Crop Sciences, will present “Pasture Weed Management,” best management strategies for tackling herbaceous and woody weed species in pastures and hay meadows. Contact Pete Flores pflores@ag.tamu.edu.

March 3, 6:30 p.m. social, followed by the meeting at 7:00 p.m., NPSOT Boerne. George Cates, Native American Seed, will present “Perspectives on Native Seeds.,” including the legal right of ownership of native plants: 1) who has the right to own the genes of our native species?; 2) at what point is a plant sufficiently altered through selection or breeding that it should no longer be considered “native”? Cibolo Nature Center Auditorium. Visitors welcome.

140 City Park Rd, Boerne

February 29, 1:00-5:00 p.m., HCMG. Fruit and Nut Program, including stone fruits, blackberries and nuts. See HCMG website home page for details. $25 registration. Hill Country Youth Event Center.

Hill Country Youth Event Center, 3785 Highway 27, KRVL

February 29, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Llano County Master Gardeners present “Llano Back to Basics Fair,” a free sustainable living event. For more information, see https://llanocountylibrary.wixsite.com/llanobacktobasics/attendee-information. Llano County Library. L , 102 E Haynie, Llano

February 29, 8:00 a.m.-3:45 p.m., NPSOT and LBJ Wildflower Center. Native Plant Spring Symposium, teaching the benefits of native plants for maintaining biodiversity and attracting local wildlife. $50 NPSOTor LBJWC members, $60 non-members, for speakers, program topics, registration see https://npsot.org/wp/event/spring-symposium-2/. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

LBJ Wildflower Center, 4801 La Crosse Ave, Austin

February 25, 6:30 p.m. social, followed by the meeting at 7:00 p.m., NPSOT Fredericksburg. Robert Edmonson, Biologist, Texas A&M Forest Service, will discuss the vital role of understory in the environment and present many of the understory trees and bushes that were a part of our Hill Country landscape heritage. He will offer advice on how to re-establish these trees/bushes. Memorial Presbyterian Church. Visitors welcome.

Memorial Presbyterian Church, 601 North Milam St, FBG

February 24, 6:15 p.m. social, followed by the meeting at 7:00 p.m., Hill Country Master Naturalists. Craig Childs, program and ranch manager for Rogers Ranch, will present “Feral Pigs in the Hill Country: Confessions of a Novice Hog Trapper.” Childs will provide an overview of the problem, will review management strategies ,and will provide insights on how to integrate the tools for hog management that would be appropriate for a given property and management goals. GBNARC Auditorium. Visitors welcome.

Guadalupe Basin Natural Resources Center auditorium, 125 Lehmann Drive, KRVL

January 21, 10:00 a.m., Hunt Garden Club. Trisha Hamil, president and creative director of Viridian Design Studio, Inc., will answer the “big” question, “What’s next for creating the perfect floral design?” Hunt United Methodist Church. 120 Merritt Road, Hunt

Visitors Welcome.

February 18, 1:00-2:00 p.m., Riverside Nature Center Association. Susan Longacre, Master Naturalist, will present “Gleaning Wildflowers.” Riverside Nature Center.

Riverside Nature Center, 150 Francisco Lemos St, KRVL

February 15, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., Cibolo Nature Center. Craig Hensley, TPWD Texas Native Trackers Biologist will present iNaturalist as a Land Survey Tool. Learn to use this app as a land management tool and to ID and document plants, birds, insects and more while contributing to citizen science. A nature walk documenting biodiversity with your phones and/or cameras will follow indoor classroom instruction. $30.00 for members, $40.00 for non-members. https://www.cibolo.org/experience/events/calendar.html/event-form/i-naturalist-workshop/43316/tickets.

Cibolo Nature Center Auditorium, 140 City Park Rd, Boerne