AHS monthly meetings
free and open to the public are held 10 a.m. - noon
he first Tuesday of each month (except August)
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2025-2026​
The Austin Herb Society is dedicated to educating members and the community about herbs, including propagation, landscaping, history and folklore, plus culinary, medicinal, and decorative uses of herbs.
AHS Monthly Meeting
​​Exotic Hibiscus:
Luminous Jewels for your Patios & Porches
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​​Tuesday, July 1
Check-in: 9:30 a.m.
Program: 10 a.m.
Zilker Botanical Garden
Free & open to the public–no registration required.​​​
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Our guest speaker Gail Woods will provide an introduction on tropical hibiscus: where to purchase them, how to care for them, and how to propagate them with cuttings and hybridization. She will also bring blooming plants that day and provide handouts with resource materials.
Photos courtesy of Gail Woods
About our speaker
Gail Woods, Owner, Big Sky Garden Arts​
Gail became fascinated by tropical hibiscus while living on the Hawaiian island of Kauai during the pandemic and working at the national tropical botanical gardens there. Since then, she has become a collector of tropical hibiscus and owns over a thousand of them. She has become an expert in how to keep the plants healthy and blooming and how to propagate them using scions to root and graft and hybridizing to create seeds. She is active in the American Hibiscus Society and has won awards for her blooms in regional shows.
About Austin Herb Society & Zilker Herb Garden
Since 1982, the Austin Herb Society has been educating members and the community about herbs, including propagation, landscaping, history, folklore, and culinary, medicinal, and decorative uses of herbs. While our members are united by an interest in herbs, they are also a diverse group of individuals: from gardeners and herbalists to cooks and business owners.
AHS members design and maintain the Zilker Herb Garden—a dazzling landscape of color and fragrance that has become a centerpiece of Zilker Botanical Garden. Here, visitors can touch, taste and smell their way through nearly 200 varieties of herbs, depending on the season. Bees and butterflies dot the beds of basil, lavender and calendula. There are classic culinary herbs like rosemary, mint and thyme alongside herbs revered for their health attributes, including aloe and echinacea.​
MEMBER BENEFITS
In addition to hands-on learning in the Zilker Herb Garden, members enjoy:
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Monthly meetings with expert speakers on diverse topics
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Educational workshops & seminars throughout the year
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Study groups focused on culinary, medicinal and herbal product making
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Field trips to unique gardens and herb-loving businesses
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Delicious herbal refreshments at in-person meetings
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Fellowship with interesting & informed herb lovers
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