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Coastal Volunteers
 Liability Waiver: We now ask volunteers to sign a liability waiver for all work days which they can either sign and FAX back to us, or sign on site when they arrive.
Grow Out Native Plants for Houston Audubon
by Flo Hannah, Sr. Sanctuary Steward
The biggest roadblock to coastal prairie
restoration is the lack of available native plant
material specific to the Upper Texas Coast. We
have collected native seed all summer and fall
and are asking individuals to propagate the
seed at home for restoration projects.
I hope you will join in this fun,
important wildlife enhancement project. I will
mail you the native plant seed along with a
photo of the native plant you are growing. Full
instructions on native plant germination are
available at the Coastal Prairie Partnership website. Jaime Gonzalez has prepared a Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook,
available on that site, which explains everything
about seed collecting and propagating.
Once your plants germinate, and are hardy
enough to bump-up to 4" or 1-gallon
containers, you can join us at a potting-up work
day, or drop off the seedlings and we will do the
rest. The plants will be used in one of our many
restoration projects. We encourage you to
retain some of the native plant material for your
own backyard, helping to create a wildlife
corridor throughout the Houston-Galveston
region.
If you're not able to propagate plants but
would still like to participate, other
ways to help are by joining us on one of our
work days or assisting with a donation.
If you would like to help us grow seedlings, please contact me at fhannah@houstonaudubon.org. We have prepared a Secure Online Form for you to donate to this program.
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