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!
" Texas Native Plants”. The presentation will be by Melissa Middlebrooks, of Graystone Gardens 276 Hwy 304, Bastrop, TX who will provide information on this topic at this great time of the year for gardeners. Attached is some related information.
The 2019-2020 meetings will be on Tuesdays Sep 10, Oct 11, Nov 12, Dec 10, Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 10, Apr 14, and May 12, 2020. 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).
Program and Meeting for February 9, 2021. The program will be "Earth-Kind Landscaping Methods”. Earth-Kind Landscaping combines traditional and organic gardening techniques to meet four goals: conservation of water, reduction of chemical and fertilizer use, energy conservation and reduction of solid wastes in landfills. Earth-Kind was developed by Texas A&M. Here https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/earthkind/ is information on Earth-Kind. The program will be by Alice Traugott who has been a Master Gardener since 2017 when the program first came to Bastrop County. Alice became a certified Earth-Kind Specialist in 2018. Alice lives in Bastrop on Main Street and has a large Cactus and Succulent Garden (her favorites).
This will be a “Zoom meeting” to allow “safe and easy” participation by “attendees” while complying with COVID guidelines. This type of meeting is not ideal but offers potential benefits in these challenging times where participants can join and interact in a safe matter from anywhere. The meeting will be recorded and posted to YouTube with a link to our Club web site http://www.lostpinesgardenclub.org/ along with the presentation slides.
Another topic will be a possible opportunity for a fall event held in conjunction with the Bastrop Public Library.
Gardening is great even during COVID challenges. We look forward to “life after COVID” including for our Club. Some of us has received our first COVID vaccine shots (Hurray!). One site to register at is www.COVAC.info: this worked very well for us.
Please join us by Zoom on February 9 starting at 6:00 pm: To join the meeting, click on https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84879018185?pwd=YnhIcHZQdmRGMzJ2MDVWa3lDdWNwQT09
Feel free to invite a friend, neighbor, etc. to this meeting which should be informative.
Plant and book sale, Silent Auction and Quilt raffle scheduled for Mar 27-28, 2020 has been restructured. This important annual event (held in conjunction with the Library Book sale) to support the Bastrop Library summer children's program has been restructured due to the restrictions associated with the COVID-19 virus situation. The plant sale was held in a manner consistent with COVID-19 guidelines.
There may also be a field trip to a ranch near Kovar Texas (south of Smithville) which shows support of desirable vegetation and habitat improvement for wildlife.
The 2019-2020 meetings will be on Tuesdays Sep 10, Oct 11, Nov 12, Dec 10, Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 10, Apr 14, and May 12, 2020. 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).
Program and Meeting for February 9, 2021. The program will be "Earth-Kind Landscaping Methods”. Earth-Kind Landscaping combines traditional and organic gardening techniques to meet four goals: conservation of water, reduction of chemical and fertilizer use, energy conservation and reduction of solid wastes in landfills. Earth-Kind was developed by Texas A&M. Here https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/earthkind/ is information on Earth-Kind. The program will be by Alice Traugott who has been a Master Gardener since 2017 when the program first came to Bastrop County. Alice became a certified Earth-Kind Specialist in 2018. Alice lives in Bastrop on Main Street and has a large Cactus and Succulent Garden (her favorites).
This will be a “Zoom meeting” to allow “safe and easy” participation by “attendees” while complying with COVID guidelines. This type of meeting is not ideal but offers potential benefits in these challenging times where participants can join and interact in a safe matter from anywhere. The meeting will be recorded and posted to YouTube with a link to our Club web site http://www.lostpinesgardenclub.org/ along with the presentation slides.
Another topic will be a possible opportunity for a fall event held in conjunction with the Bastrop Public Library.
Gardening is great even during COVID challenges. We look forward to “life after COVID” including for our Club. Some of us has received our first COVID vaccine shots (Hurray!). One site to register at is www.COVAC.info: this worked very well for us.
Please join us by Zoom on February 9 starting at 6:00 pm: To join the meeting, click on https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84879018185?pwd=YnhIcHZQdmRGMzJ2MDVWa3lDdWNwQT09
Feel free to invite a friend, neighbor, etc. to this meeting which should be informative.
Plant and book sale, Silent Auction and Quilt raffle scheduled for Mar 27-28, 2020 has been restructured. This important annual event (held in conjunction with the Library Book sale) to support the Bastrop Library summer children's program has been restructured due to the restrictions associated with the COVID-19 virus situation. The plant sale was held in a manner consistent with COVID-19 guidelines.
There may also be a field trip to a ranch near Kovar Texas (south of Smithville) which shows support of desirable vegetation and habitat improvement for wildlife.
Our Garden club serves the Bastrop Community
Our meetings 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 held on Mar 29-30, 2019. 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 2018 (and prior) 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 $11,000 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.
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.
Membership is open to anyone who is interested in gardening (flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, etc.). We also do projects which help beautify the community.