plant sale

A one-day plant sale at Marble Falls High School (MFHS) is offering almost everything needed for spring planting.

Today, Friday, March 24, from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. shoppers can pick up flower, pepper, tomato and other vegetable plants for a cost of from $1 to $3.

Proceeds from the event, sponsored by the MFHS Horticulture Program, will benefit all the schools Career and Technology Education Workforce Ready programs.

Experts on the natural world of Texas will be speaking in Burnet on Saturday, Oct. 8, as part of the celebration of Native Plant Week by the Highland Lakes Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas.

A sale of native plants, with members of the organization there to answer questions about the plants they and Wright’s Nursery have grown, will be going on 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Highland Lakes Master Gardener Farmers Market on the Burnet courthouse square.

The speakers, Valerie Bugh and Randy Johnson, will make presentations at the Herman Brown Free Library, also on the square, at 100 East Washington Street.

Valerie Bugh

At 9:30 a.m., Bugh will present “Floral Fauna.” At 11 a.m., Johnson's topic will be “Pollinators and Natives: An Ancient Marriage.