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CHGC Christmas Home Tour
Dec. 13, 2025
(10:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
Tickets will be available for purchase on Sept. 15, 2025.
(Event held rain or shine!)
If you would like to be one of our wonderful sponsors, please contact Dixie Ford -936-931-7497.
Meetings & Activities
Established July 9, 2008
Welcome to our newest members:
Dianna Arriaga
Regular meetings are usually held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 10:00 AM - 12:00 noon, at the Fellowship Hall of the Chappell Hill Methodist Church, 5195 Church Street.
Monthly meetings include speakers, raffles, door prizes and refreshments. In addition to our meetings, we have different projects, sponsor scholarships, garden art, plant swap and field trips. Annual Club Fundraiser: Christmas Home Tour.
We invite you to join us!
One of the Club's most visible projects is maintaining the flower beds in front of the town's Post Office, also a few other areas along Main Street. We hold monthly work days to do the planting and weeding.
Instructions for Application Form - Click on the link to open the form with Adobe Reader. You can print the form to your printer and fill in all the information needed. The form can be 1) mailed to The Chappell Hill Garden Club (PO Box 24, Chappell Hill, Tx 77426), or 2) bring the application to one of our meetings.
Note: Payment must be submitted with the application to become a CHGC member.
If you have questions, please use the contact form at the top of this page . . . or email us directly at chappellhillgardenclubtx@gmail.com.
"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singling, and the lawnmower is broken."
--- James Dent
Scholarship/Financial Aid Requests
If you are looking to request scholarship or general financial aid (due to an unfortunate circumstance), please submit either the Scholarship form or Financial form. All instructions for completion are on the forms.
Note: April 1 is the deadline for submitting Scholarship forms.
(Use this file to download and complete the Application, then email or mail it to CHGC.)
"If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden."
​ --- Robert Brault
Upcoming Events
Herb Society Festival - Gifts & Plant Sale
Date: Mar. 13-14, 2026
Location: Festival Hill at Jasper Rd., Round Top, Tx
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Check the website for further info.
Native Plant Society of Texas
Deadline to Apply: Feb. 2026 (Date to be updated when available.)
Subject: Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas Grant Applications Now Open
Check the website for more information.
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Rockport Hummingbird Celebration
Dates: Sept. 2026 (Date to be updated when available.)
Check the website for more info.
John Fairey Garden - Budding Out Plant Sale & Festival
Date: Mar. 2026 (Date to be updated when available.)
Time: Gates open at 8:00 a.m. Members (9a.m.-4p.m.)/General Public (10a.m.-4p.m.)
Location: John Fairey Garden 20559 FM 359 Rd in Hempstead, Tx
Check the website for further info.
Plant of the Month - Desert Willow
Desert Willow
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The Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis) is a small flowering tree grown for its orchid-like flowers and tolerance to hot arid landscapes.
The Desert Willow is a New Mexico native tree that normally grows with multi-trunks to about 15′-18’ tall and wide. If pruned into a single-trunk tree, it can grow much taller. This tree's common name, Desert Willow, is given due to its willow-like leaves. The Desert Willow is not related to other willows like Globe or Weeping.
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The Desert Willow is well suited for the xeric landscape or to cool down a west or south-facing wall. In particularly hot areas, areas with low annual rainfall, or where water is limiting, the Desert Willow makes a great specimen tree because of its tolerance to these conditions. In hot, dry areas, the Desert Willow is sometimes used as the sole landscaping tree.
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It produces orchid-like flowers that attract hummingbirds and blooms from summer until frost. Trees are available with flowers in various shades of pink, white flowers, or burgundy flowers.
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Find more info & Picture from http://www.treesthatpleasenurseryblog.com/2012/06/desert-willow.html