Our roadsides teem with wildflowers, insects and folks taking bluebonnet pictures. Imagine what Texas Ranger James B. Gillett once described of this area in Six Years with the Texas Rangers 1875-1881, “In the springtime one could travel for hundreds of miles on a bed of flowers.” In the springtime you can also start your flower beds or vegetable garden.

The Kingsland Garden Club will have their Annual Plant Sale at the Kingsland House of Arts & Crafts Spring Sale behind Wells Fargo Bank on Chamberlain St. on the east end.  Members of the Kingsland Garden Club are shown getting ready for last years plant sale.  Shown (L-R) Sheryl Yantis, Diane Langley, Kitty Rawlings, Sharon Jones and Carolyn Lange.  Get good home grown Hill Country plants at very reasonable prices.

More than 280 visitors showed up at the Llano Lawn and Garden Show last Saturday at St. James Lutheran Church. The event was sponsored by the Llano Master Gardener Association and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Llano County. The tradition continued with food, exhibits, sales, and how-to advice by experts who shared the latest trends and “how-to” information in seminars covering heirloom bulbs, energy efficiency for greenhouses, Wildscapes, spring gardening advice, plus tips on water ...

This is a good time to plant roses, fruit trees, and shrubs. They’ll appreciate a head start before the heat sets in this summer. What about your garden? It’s too early to plant many vegetables because of a possible freeze, which could statistically happen until mid-March. If you planned what and when to plant, you can also decide where to locate your garden so it’ll thrive.

Watering in Winter One of the most important duties is watering. Our landscape needs water in the Winter just not nearly as much as in the Summer. Slow deep watering at the drip line and beyond is best. Remember the roots grow out from our trees not just down. If the ground cracks from lack of rain or moisture the roots of younger trees can and will break setting the tree up to die when the Summer heat manifests itself.

A free landscape design workshop will showcase the work and innovative approaches of artist Patricia Michael at the Llano Master Gardener Association meeting on Thursday, Feb. 21, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Llano County Library. Michael’s understanding of ecological design can help you save money, protect the environment, and enhance the enjoyment of your surroundings.

Do you ever hear something and file it under the HUMH list? This gardner has a vocabulary list of HUMH?!, now what do you suppose this really means. So off to the good ol’ dictionary to look up one word that’s on that list - Sustainability: the ability to sustain, support, upheld.