People helping people with gardening
Welcome to our club and thanks from the Bastrop Library
We learn from each other and from programs about the challenges, opportunities, joys, and frustrations of gardening in central Texas. Meeting goals: have fun and learn useful "nuggets of useful information".
Come join us!
Come join us!
The 2017-2018 meetings will be on Tuesdays Sep 12, Oct 10, Nov 14, Dec 12, Jan 9, 2018, Feb 13, Mar 13, Apr 10, and May 13, 2017. Click here (2016-2017), here (2015-2016) and here for our 2014-15 program schedules. Some examples of prior meetings are shown here (2014-2015) here (2013-2014) and here (2012-2013).
Our Garden club serves the Bastrop Community
Program for May 8, 2018. The meeting program will be Earth-Kind Principles by Patricia Anderson, President Bastrop County Master Gardeners Association. Earth-Kind Landscaping uses research-proven techniques to provide maximum garden and landscape enjoyment while preserving and protecting the environment. The objective of Earth-Kind Landscaping is to combine the best of organic and traditional gardening and landscaping principles to create a horticultural system based on real world effectiveness and environmental responsibility. Earth-Kind Landscaping encourages: (1) Landscape Water conservation, (2) Reduction of fertilizer and pesticide use, (3) Landscaping for energy conservation (4) Reduction of landscape wastes entering landfills. Individuals using Earth-Kind landscaping principles and practices can create beautiful, easy-care landscapes, while conserving and protecting natural resources and the environment.
The meeting is open to the public at no charge. Meetings start at 6:30 pm with snacks and socialization followed by club business and a program by "gardening gurus" until 8:00 pm.
Plant and book sale, Silent Auction and Quilt raffle was be on Mar 23-24, 2018. This great event will support the Bastrop Library summer children's program.
The Plant Sale, Silent Auction, and Quilt Raffle will support the Bastrop Library summer children's activity and reading program. This built upon the 2017 event which had 203 programs and a large number of children in the Bastrop community. Click here for a slideshow of this summer program. This will be held in conjunction with the "Friends of the Library" annual book sale. We offer hard-to-find, Bastrop hardy perennials, shrubs, and succulents, along with vegetable starts. 100% of the proceeds will go to the Library’s summer reading program for kids. We raised over 10,000 in our 2018 event (even better than the over $8000 in 2017, $6,661 in 2016 and $5300 in 2015) at the event. Click here for more information. This is much appreciated by the Bastrop Library and the Friends of the Library to help support their programs.
The meeting is open to the public at no charge. Meetings start at 6:30 pm with snacks and socialization followed by club business and a program by "gardening gurus" until 8:00 pm.
Plant and book sale, Silent Auction and Quilt raffle was be on Mar 23-24, 2018. This great event will support the Bastrop Library summer children's program.
The Plant Sale, Silent Auction, and Quilt Raffle will support the Bastrop Library summer children's activity and reading program. This built upon the 2017 event which had 203 programs and a large number of children in the Bastrop community. Click here for a slideshow of this summer program. This will be held in conjunction with the "Friends of the Library" annual book sale. We offer hard-to-find, Bastrop hardy perennials, shrubs, and succulents, along with vegetable starts. 100% of the proceeds will go to the Library’s summer reading program for kids. We raised over 10,000 in our 2018 event (even better than the over $8000 in 2017, $6,661 in 2016 and $5300 in 2015) at the event. Click here for more information. This is much appreciated by the Bastrop Library and the Friends of the Library to help support their programs.
Program for May 9, 2017. The meeting program was "Keys to creating habitat from the back yards to the back forty". The speaker will be Jason May who is the Resource Specialist for Lost Pines Complex of Bastrop and Buesher state parks. Click here for his short biography. We will also install the new Club officers.
We also discussed the Mar 24-25 plant sale, silent auction, and quilt raffle. 100% of the income from this event will go to the Bastrop Library summer children's activity program.
We also discussed the Mar 24-25 plant sale, silent auction, and quilt raffle. 100% of the income from this event will go to the Bastrop Library summer children's activity program.
Lawn tractor donation to the Bastrop Family Crisis Center
Our club (with the support of Lowes) donated a lawn tractor to the Bastrop Family Crisis Center. This enables the Center to use in house resources to save on landscaping costs freeing up scarce funds to support their core mission of helping people in Bastrop County.
Purpose and Overview of Lost Pines Garden Club
The Lost Pines Garden Club is an organization which promotes central Texas gardening through networking, presentations by experts, and facilitating access to information related to gardening.
We meet the second Tuesday of the month (Sep through May) at the Bastop Public Library, 1100 Church Street, Bastrop TX.
Monthly programs include a social/networking time, a short business meeting and normally an informative presentation or demonstration by a person knowledgeable in some aspect of gardening in our area. Membership is open to anyone interested in gardening. Annual dues are $15. Guests are welcome.
We are members of the Bastrop Chamber of Commerce.
Membership is open to anyone who is interested in gardening (flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, etc.). We also do projects which help beautify the community.