PICTURE BEFORE BLOOMS AND BARRELS 2024
BEAUTIFUL plants wanting to find that forever home!
IF YOU MISSED IT….. WATCH FOR IT NEXT YEAR APRIL 12, 2025
WE WILL START GROWING IN JANUARY TO BE READY FOR YOU!
BLOOMS AND BARREL SALE 2024
Thank you for coming to our sale! We appreciate everyone’s supported our fund raiser.
MGs love to assist in plant selection and answer your questions. Interns will be on the HELP Desk on Tuesday and Thursday, 8-noon and 1-5 pm Give us a call - 830-257-6568.
GOT QUESTIONS? WE HAVE ANSWERS!!
Send pictures to ID to kerr-tx@tamu.edu!
MEET THE NEWEST TEXAS MASTER GARDENER INTERNS - CLASS OF 2024
Congratulations! We will all look forward to helping them get to be
Certified Texas Master Gardeners!
We wont be offering another Texas Master Gardener Class until February of 2025. See Become a Master Gardener tab for details when it becomes available.
Texas SuperStar Plants are tested and selected for their super performance. Click on button below to get the online version.
Thanks to the Ranch Radio Group, Master Gardener Pam Umstead is the voice of the Hill Country Master Gardeners! She brings you timely tips on horticultural topics in 60-second public service announcements. You can enjoy them every day on these local stations:
92.3 The Ranch, Today’s Real Country
The River 106.1, The Hill Country’s Greatest Hits
The Fox 96.5 & 93.9, Today’s Hot Country for the Hill Country
104.3 & 102.1 The Hill Country Patriot, Your Information Station
106.5 The Raptor, The Hill Country’s Classic Rock Authority
Hello, World!
WE HAVE RAIN BARRELS FOR SALE!
HCMG builds and sells inexpensive rain barrels to the community. Each rain barrel is made of food grade plastic and is ready to install under a downspout, or if rain gutters are not an option, a rain chain can be attached to the roof and water will flow down into the rain barrel.
Beginining June 1, 2023 the cost of the rain barrel is $70. A rebate of 50% per rain barrel, up to a maximum of $200, is available to Kerr County residents from the Upper Guadalupe River Authority (UGRA) .
Please call 830-257-6568 for information on how to order.
Print form here.
This plastic rain barrel was clad in wood to resemble an old-fashioned cistern and complement the Craftsman style home.
–Preparing for our 2024 Blooms & Barrels sale Darla Cluster, Rita Aliperto, Brian Schroder, Mary Contois, Holly Green, and Anne Brown, Rain Barrel Project Co-Ordinator, convert food-grade containers into garden rain barrels.
Volunteers Fernando Gonzalez, Anne Brown (Rain Barrel Project Coordinator), HCMG President Dave Kinneberg and Karen Fuller prepare barrels for our annual tax-free Blooms & Barrels sale.
Visit our Demonstration Garden next to the Kerr County AgriLife Extension Office at 3775 Hwy 27, Kerrville, to see native and adapted plants for our area.
View the Current Plant List and see the location of the plants in the Garden. Click on the “Demo Garden” tab above and then Click on “Current Plant List”.
ATTENTION: HILL COUNTRY MASTER GARDENERS AND INTERNS
To record your volunteer hours please click the button below to log your hours.