Keep Wimberley Beautiful will be participating in the Wimberley Garden Club’s
Spring Garden Faire on May 9th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Wimberley Garden
Club usually has an annual Garden Tour in the spring, but this year they are
having their first Spring Garden Faire. This year it will take place at Songland
Farm.
The Faire will feature Exhibits, Garden Advice Stations (including rainwater
collection, vermiculture, wildflowers, vegetables, native plants), a plant sale, art,
music and vendors for food purchase.
The tickets are $20 dollars each and available at wimberleygardenclub.org.
Directions to the Songland Farm will be provided with ticket purchase.
Carpooling is encouraged due to limited parking space.
The recent rains have really helped our plants and wildlife. The Agarita bushes
are loaded with red berries but they won’t last long as the birds love them. Many
people do not like this native plant because the leaves are prickly. I remember
the first time I was introduced to Agarita while training to be a docent at the
Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. I was told that Agarita was also referred to
as a “nursery plant.” The prickly leaves protected other plants beneath it from
being consumed.
A native tree that has responded to the rains is the bright yellow blooming Palo
Verde tree. It has thorns too which protect it and other plants growing beneath it.
I first became familiar with it in Tucson as it survives desert conditions with its
needle thin leaves.
I hope to see you at the Garden Faire. There will be a Keep Wimberley Beautiful
table where you can learn about their many projects and how to participate. I will
have currently blooming wildflower samples so that you can learn their names. I
am also responsible for answering questions about the orchids you can buy at
the grocery store – Phalaenopsis orchids.
