Lawn and Garden Show March 30
The Hill Country Lawn and Garden Show always has a wide variety of flowers, vegetables, natives, and cacti available, but the 2024 event promises even more. It is from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in the AgriLife auditorium, 607 N. Vandeveer St. in Burnet. Photo by AliceLiles.com/Cactus are Cool
Plants, plants, and more plants! That’s what you’ll find at the 24th annual Hill Country Lawn and Garden Show on Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the AgriLife auditorium, 607 N. Vandeveer St. in Burnet.
“For a few years, we were shy on plants, but now we are really wide open with a wide variety of different kinds of plants and landscape options,” said Roxanne Dunegan, show chairman and member of the Highland Lakes Master Gardener Association, which hosts the show. “That’s really what we are all about: plants.”
A Native Plant Society booth will offer native varieties for sale and expert advice on how to properly propagate them. Other plant vendors include Alice Liles of Cactus are Cool with succulents and dish gardens; Tower Garden with aeroponic garden systems; Leora Krause selling seeds, plants, and herbs; and Keith Atwood’s native and vegetable plants. The Master Gardeners will also have plants for sale.
Other vendors include those selling jams, jellies, and pickles; water storage and irrigation systems; natural soaps and lotions; yard art; herbal tea, gift sets, and infusers; and aprons.
Four speakers will take the front stage with presentations throughout the day, including Clarence Biddy of Bartlett Tree Experts and vegetable gardener Atwood.
Visitors can bid on silent auction items until 3:30 p.m. and buy tickets for a chance to win a locally made quilt, which will be given away at a drawing at 3:45 p.m. Purchase a home-cooked lunch and snacks from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Proceeds from the Hill Country Lawn and Garden Show support the Highland Lakes Master Gardener Association’s community service projects, including a scholarship program, the Burnet Middle School greenhouse, and educational Green Thumb programs; community gardens in Kingsland, Marble Falls, and Horseshoe Bay and the Oaks Nursing Home courtyard garden; and beautification of the AgriLife building.
Wedged between Good Friday and Easter Sunday and just a week before the total solar eclipse (April 8), the garden show is expecting to draw new visitors to the area as well as the residents who depend on it for their spring plantings.
“We’ll have free eclipse glasses for everyone,” Dunnegan said. “We are looking for a really great show.”