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Fort Worth Botanic Garden: Spring Plant Sale - Fort Worth

Annual sale features assortment of annuals, citrus trees, fruit trees and small fruits, ground covers, herbs, perennials, shrubs, succulents, vegetables and vines, along with specialty plants grown at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden as well as plants offered by rose, African violet, begonia, iris, daylily and cactus and succulent societies. Other vendors will be selling garden-related merchandise as well. Tarrant County Master Gardeners will be in the center of the sale promoting plants that attract butterflies. Garden staff will be on site to answer your plant questions.

Botanical Research Institute of Texas: Underground World of Mushrooms - Fort Worth

This half-day workshop taught by BRIT resident research associate Dr. Denis Benjamin will introduce participants to the wide variety of mushrooms that exist in our own backyard, the Cross Timbers ecosystem of North Central Texas. Join Denis and become acquainted with the Kingdom of Fungi and learn proper methods for collecting and photographing samples.

$15. Space is limited.

Info: Keri Barfield, 817-546-1841 or Tammie Crole, 817-332-7518.

Heard Museum: Spring Plant & Milkweed Sale - McKinney

The annual sale will offer huge selection of native milkweed plants.

Species available for purchase will include Asclepias brachystephana, Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias texana, Asclepias oenotheroides, Asclepias asperula capricornu, Asclepias arenaria and Asclepias asperula asperula.

A representative from Monarch Watch will be available during much of the sale to answer your questions. This sale will also feature native flowering plants that provide nectar for the adult butterflies.

Public sale: April 16, 9am-5pm, April 17, 1-5pm.

Native Prairies Association of Texas Fort Worth Chapter: Prairie Seekers Workshop - Aledo

Prairie Seekers is a prairie assessment and mapping program developed by Native Prairies Association of Texas. The Fort Worth chapter is hosting a training workshop which covers topics and field training on: prairie plant ID, soils, succession (reading the land), fauna, mapping and iNaturalist. After certification, Prairie Seekersvolunteers conduct surveys whose data will be contributed to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department state prairie database. This information is used to identify future prairie conservation opportunities across the state.

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