Special to the BulletinAshley Landry, founder of the Native Plant Rescue Project (NPRP), is the speaker for Highland Lakes Native Plant Society of Texas’ chapter meeting at the Marble Falls Library, 101 Main Street, from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, May 17. This meeting will count as one hour of advanced training credit for Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists.The Native Plant Rescue Project is a Central Texas-based nonprofit that coordinates plant rescues prior to construction. She was the 2024 Nancy Benedict Memorial Award winner and has been featured in Wildflower magazine, NPAT’s Prairie People, the Austin Chronicle, Vibrante magazine and on Central Texas Gardener. Landry is an avid iNaturalist user and enjoys spending her free time botanizing.Her presentation will address: a brief history of the Native Plant Rescue Project in Central Texas; a few highlights of rare species we’ve rescued, species that have been propagated, and some of the native plant gardens we’ve created; a discussion of our remnant prairie sod relocation; an overview of our involvement with plant rescue in the Highland Lakes area; and a discussion of how you can help us save local ecotype plants in this area.You can learn more about NPRP by visiting the website, www.nativeplantrescueproject.org.Highland Lakes-NPSOT chapter meetings take a summer break in July; the next meeting on Saturday, Sept. 20, will feature Lee Marlowe, a Sustainable Landscape Ecologist at the San Antonio River Authority.
