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 2016-2017 meetings will be on Tuesdays Sep 13, Oct 11, Nov 8, Dec 13, Jan 10, Feb 14, Mar 14, Apr 11, and May 9, 2017. Click 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). Click here for our page on "water efficient landscaping".
we serve the Bastrop Community
Program for Sep 12, 2017. The meeting program will be "Actions we can take to encourage wildlife in our suburban and rural areas and Wildlife Ag programs". This will address topics such as a "food/water/shelter" for wildlife and the Texas wildlife Ag program to encourage open space and wildlife. The speaker will Robert Trudeau, Wildlife Biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Plant and book sale, Silent Auction and Quilt raffle was on Mar 24-25, 2017. This great event supported 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 will build upon the 2016 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 $8800 in our 2017 event (even better than the $6,661 for the Library in 2016 and 2015 where we raised $5,300) 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.
