Gardening

Barbara Keller-Willy, Native Prairies Association of Texas state board member and president of Monarch Gateway 501c3 will present the Monarch Gateway Project and “How to Grow Native Milkweed” at the Dallas NPAT meeting. As leader of the Monarch Host Cities Partnership Project, with a goal of creating contiguous Monarch Host Gardens on city/municipal properties along central and coastal migratory flyways, Barbara grows approximately 7,000 milkweed per year.

Texas Smartscape Plant Sales feature native and adapted plants.

On Oct 10, sales will be held at the following garden centers:

The Home Depot

7950 South Freeway

Fort Worth, TX 76134

The Home Depot

901 N Stemmons Pkwy

Lewisville, TX 75067

The Home Depot

1224 N Central Expressway

Plano, TX 75074

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Learn about soil preparation and see which plants work best in our clay soil and our North Central Texas climate. After the talk, stroll through our teaching garden to see the drought-tolerant, native plants up-close. Free.

Barbara Keller-Willy, Native Prairies Association of Texas state board member and president of Monarch Gateway 501c3, will present the Monarch Gateway Project and “How to Grow Native Milkweed.”  As leader of the Monarch Host Cities Partnership Project, with a goal of creating contiguous Monarch Host Gardens on city/municipal properties along central and coastal migratory flyways, Barbara grows approximately 7,000 milkweed per year.

The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is selling spring-blooming bulbs for fall and winter planting. Bulb packages range from $13 to $83 and include hyacinths, muscari, daffodils, paperwhites and tulips. Admirers of the largest floral festival in the Southwest, Dallas Blooms, are invited to purchase the same bulb varieties that the Dallas Arboretum plants in its gardens.

Learn all the secrets to creating your own magical miniature garden in glass. Class at 10:30 am at Arlington and Dallas shops.

Learn about the many varieties of vegetables and herbs that can be grown in North Texas during the fall and winter months.  Class at 10:30 am at Arlington and Dallas shops. 

The Fort Worth chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas hosts a plant sale featuring a large variety of plant species grown organically by chapter members, including: ground covers perennials, shrubs, vines and trees.

These plants are: 

• Grown from local seeds
• Better adapted to our climate
• Low requirement for water
• No need for pesticides or fertilizers

Native plant sale benefitting Molly Hollar Wildscape. Sale features large variety of plant species grown organically at the Greenhouse by Wildscape volunteers.

We will continue our training in the use of the newly revised Prairie Seekers datasheets.  RJ Taylor will discuss some of the resources available to our Seekers to help identify plant and animal material, both in resource book and online form. He will also discuss the various online databases to help identify and evaluate native prairie remnants; aerial photographs, topographic maps, soil information and land ownership websites. These tools will aid us as we attend NPAT field trips and as we go out individually and in groups to capture information about the remaining native prairie remnants across North Texas.

We will also have a presentation by Jillian Jordan who will tell us about the Great Seed Bomb bike ride;  a 15-mile fun ride that will be benefiting pollinators on Nov.14 in Fort Worth, Texas. This ride will help our pollinators in two ways:  During the ride, seed balls – made of clay, organic compost and native, non-GMO milkweed and wildflower seed – will be thrown and launched from bikes by our riders. A portion of the money raised will then be donated to local environmental nonprofits and organizations to keep the work going.

Free. Info: joacollins@gmail.com