If you drove through downtown last Friday, you may have spotted Kathleen Hawkins sprucing up the planters around the Courthouse. The recent cold snap did a real number on them!
I asked her, “How do you decide what to plant in the winter?” Kathleen told me, “There are certain winter plants that usually do well in the winter, but that 20 degrees was what got everything the other day.” She said pansies usually do great, and cabbage and snapdragons do well. But nothing likes 20 degrees. She was out trying to salvage what she could.
“Some of the pansies did okay, but the snap dragons did not do well. Interestingly, some of these plants made it through that last bad, bad storm we had, but they did not like the recent 20 degrees,” she explained. She is hoping some of these will come back.
Kathleen noted that Keep San Saba Beautiful changes out the plants twice year, and if you lose them in extremely cold weather, it costs more money to replace them. She added that Buddy Whitley who works for the City Parks Department has raised some plants, and she is planning on adding them to the plants that did make it through the recent cold snap.
Next time you drive by the impressive looking plants in town, remember… it took money and many hours to get it looking so beautiful! Thank you, KSSB volunteers!