Great Gardens

07/13/2022

This is a wonderful community event looking for sponsors!

Are you a business owner or individual that would like to sponsor our run this year? We can't do this run without our wonderful sponsors. Every year the sponsors come out and help us support our kids and our community. Each sponsor will receive a booth with table and chairs at the run, advertising on our website, social media pages and the run t-shirt. Plus you will be helping us to give grants to local schools for their PE departments. So it is a win win proposition. Come join us for this fun and popular community event!!

If you are interested please go our run page and fill out the sponsor form

https://crapemyrtletrails.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=4114&action=edit

06/24/2022

This is a great event for the whole family!

Mark your calendar! The 16th annual Crape Myrtle Trails Run & Family Festival will be held on Saturday, September 24th. Our registration for this event is now open. So click the link below to get your place at the starting line and support your school. Every school who a runner designates a will receive a $5 grant per runner. Last year we gave away $5,800 in grants to local schools!

So come out, run the course, enjoy the jump house, pet the animals at the petting zoo and support your community!!

https://runsignup.com/Race/TX/Mckinney/CrapeMyrtleTrailRunandFamilyFestival

05/17/2022

Great Gardens is looking for two drivers to work full time. All that is needed is a valid driver's license and experience driving a truck with a trailer. No landscaping experience is necessary. We offer excellent wages, paid holidays and vacations. If interested call the office at 972-562-4746 or email us at [email protected].

04/29/2021

As board members of The Crape Myrtle Trails of McKinney, Roger and Elizabeth would like to recognize all of the community members and businesses who make our Mother's Day project a success.....

10/21/2019

Hurry!  These volunteer slots will fill up fast.   All volunteers receive a free Make A Difference Day T-shirt good for 50% off at these McKinney restaurants:  Brother's Pizza, E.J. Wills Gastropub, Raising Cane's, Hugs Cafe, Nom Noms, and One & Only Burger! Bring your friends and family and spe...

08/26/2019

Please be sure to sign up for the McKinney Crape Myrtle Trails Run and Family Festival on September 28th. This is a USATF Certified 5 & 10K Run. There is also a 1 mile fun run for the kids. The starting point is Boyd High School and is run on our beautiful Crape Myrtle Trails. Please click the link below to register! Make sure to note a school name on the registration form and that school will receive a $5 donation.

2019 Crape Myrtle Run & Free Family Festival, 10K, 5K, 1-Mile Fun Run registration form at GetMeRegistered.com

05/14/2019

Elizabeth Smidt , Neil Sperry and Laura Camarillo had a wonderful meeting today with The City of McKinney personnel to discuss upgrades to the Crape Myrtle World Collection Park in McKinney. We are so excited about planting some new varieties of Crapes and having lots of visitors to our city park.

03/08/2018

Since it's International Women's Day I thought I would share a little information about a woman in history who created wonderful gardens as well as many other things, Gertrude Jekyll.

"Surrey-born Gertrude (1843-1932) was a polymath: a person with many skills and interests, in all of which she excelled. She was a musician, composer, embroiderer, woodworker, metalworker, artist, garden writer, photographer and botanist. Above all, though, she was the creator of plans and designs for around 300 gardens in Britain and some abroad in France and the United States.

She wrote some 15 books and over 2,000 articles for magazines, including Country Life and The Garden, (1870) founded by William Robinson. She also photographed and developed her own pictures." Discover Britain Magazine

03/06/2018

March is a good time of year to plant your vegetable garden in North Texas. Please see the attached article by Neil Sperry that appeared in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It has wonderful information about timing, soil preparation, watering etc.

http://www.star-telegram.com/living/home-garden/neil-sperry/article194406789.html