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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension-Travis County kicks off the 2024 Texas Tough Plants webinar series with Native and Adapted Plants for Central Texas and Wild About Plants, on February 21st, from 10 am to noon.Skip Richter, Texas AgriLife Extension Service Horticulturist (retired) and host of GardenLine on KTRH 740 AM, will discuss some of the best native and adapted plants for creating a beautiful landscape in central Texas that can tolerate extremes of heat and cold, drought, and deluge.Denise Delaney, the City of Austin Watershed Protection Department’s Acting Education Program Manager, will follow up with Wild About Plants and tell us more about the Grow Green program's philosophy of using the right plant in the right place. The program utilizes a webinar format.

Interested parties can register in advance to receive a link: https://traviscountytx-gov.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/3117043975299/WN_qGHRVIV6Su-NMqsuFbrjLQ

Due to technological constraints, the webinars have a limit of 100 attendees. However, an unlimited number of people can register to view the recorded webinars. Everyone who registers will be able to view the recording afterward.

Attendees can submit questions during the webinar and get answers live as time allows. Afterward, questions that don’t make it to the webinar will receive emailed answers. Viewers of the recorded sessions can send their questions to the Travis County Master Gardener help desk: [email protected].

More information on the entire webinar series can be found here: https://travis-tx.tamu.edu/2024/02/06/texas-tough-plants-featured-in-2024-webinar-series/

TAX RATE: TRAVIS COUNTY ADOPTED A TAX RATE THAT WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR’S TAX RATE. THE TAX RATE WILL EFFECTIVELY BE RAISED BY 3.5 PERCENT AND WILL RAISE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS ON A $100,000 HOME BY APPROXIMATELY $9.12.