Spring Cleaning, Spring Blooms, and Spring Plant Sale 3/26-27

Each semester our school participates with the citywide Keep Austin Beautiful Clean Sweep. We clean multiple areas of school including Monterey Oaks Blvd., our nature trail and the school grounds.

Our native gardens have also started blooming this week. They will look even more amazing in the coming weeks.

Our Spring plant sale will be this Thursday and Friday March 26 and 27 from 9-4:30. We can also stay later by request. Here is a sampling of the plants  we will be receiving from Far South Nursery and Emerald Garden.

Socuty Garlic

Spiderwort

Pink Ferry Duster

Bottle Brush

Compact Orange Sage

Gopher Plant

Maiden Hair Fern

Anisacanthus Tangerine

Artemisia Silver King

Indian Mallow

Bulbine Orange

Chile Pequin

Trailing Wine cup

Dwarf Cherry Barbados

White Beautyberry

Coral Bean

Mexican Plum

Fig Tx BrnTrky

Evergreen Sumac

Smoke Tree

Kidney Wood

Wax Myrtle- Dwarf

Dogwood

Mexican Olive

Anacacho Orchid

Texas Gold Yucca

Columbeu

Black Dalea

Texas Gay feather

Kangaroo Paw

Brush Sunset

Cream spread cantana

Mexican honeysuckle

fragrant mistflower

native honeysuckle

Blue glow agave

crassula coccinea- campfire

Marginata agave

Dennis Hobbs Individual Achievement Award

Keep Austin Beautiful held its annual awards banquet today.

This is their organizational Silver Anniversary, and the Sheraton ballroom was packed.

At our table were Mayor Pro Tem , Mike Martinez, PODER director and Best Overall winner Susana Almanza, along with my wife, Rita, and principal, Amy Taylor.

Check out the other winners and find out more about the awards here.

This display highlights a lot of our environmental efforts at Small.

Small Middle School principal Amy Taylor and yours truly.

Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez and unidentified guest.

Me and my students on the big screen.

The award's namesake introducing the awardee.

KXAN weatherman Jim Spencer emceed the ceremony.

I first met Dennis Hobbs on a field trip my classes took to Texas Disposal Systems in the early 90's. As we pulled up to the gate, he boarded our bus. The next hour was like and episode of The Magic School Bus. He proudly showed off the many efforts the landfill was taking to reduce the amount of waste going into the land fill and to reduce the environmental impact of such a large operation.

Glad I took those Speech classes.

It is humbling to receive an award from such a great organization. KAB has worked with my students for the last six years. Their impact on Austin's beauty and environmental ethic is impressive.