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Fall Plant Sale - Ft Worth

Fall is the second great planting season, so come peruse our perennials and native Texas plants. Browse our selection of decorative grasses, shrubs and bulbs as well. Planting in the fall is a great opportunity to give your plants a jump start on the Texas summers.

Choose from a wide assortment of trees, shrubs, grasses, ground covers, perennials, vines, and spring-flowering bulbs. The sale features many specialty plants grown at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. In addition, rose, African violet, begonia, iris, daylily, cactus & succulent, and daffodil societies will be selling their plants. Other vendors will be selling garden-related merchandise as well.

Garden staff will be on site to answer your plant questions. BYOW (Bring Your Own Wagon) for loading plants! In “The Grove,” the wooded area west of the Trial Garden and the Japanese Garden parking lot.

Greater Ft Worth Herb Society Meeting - Ft Worth

The Greater Fort Worth Herb Society was founded in 1985 with the purpose of "sharing knowledge of herbal folklore, planting, growing, propagating, cultivating, harvesting and using herbs." A further goal is the fostering of education and knowledge regarding herbs and other botanical subjects.

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Meetings are held on the third Saturday. The social time starts at
9:30 a.m. and the meeting begins at 10 a.m. See website for meeting topic.

Collin County Hobby Beekeepers Assn Meeting - McKinney

Collin County Hobby Beekeepers’ Association (CCHBA) meets on the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Heard Craig Center in McKinney, Texas. Click here for directions.

Collin County Hobby Beekeepers Association (CCHBA) is comprised of men, women and youth interested in the art of beekeeping.

Our membership ranges across many professions. We have members with several hundred to one to NO bee hives. We foster an environment in which you can increase your knowledge and teach others.

Solar Home Tour - DFW

North Texas Renewable Energy Group (NTREG) announces the  DFW Solar Home Tour, October 1st, 2011  www.dfwsolarhometour.org

The 2nd annual DFW Solar Home Tour is a part of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) National Solar Tour www.nationalsolartour.org . It offers the public the opportunity to tour innovative green homes and buildings and learn how homeowners and businesses can use renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainable technologies. 

 

"Will There Be Enough Water in Texas?" Forum - Irving

A public forum on the water situation in north Texas will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24.  The forum, titled “Will There Be Enough Water in Texas,” will be co-sponsored by six area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Texas and two area groups of the Sierra Club.  It will be held at the Irving Central Library, 801 W. Irving Blvd, from 1:00-4:30 and is free to the public.

Several distinguished speakers have agreed to present information on the supplies and delivery of water in our region and will answer questions from the audience. They include Lewis McMahan, a Director of the Texas Water Development Board, Tod Maurina of the North Texas Groundwater Conservation District, Denis Qualls of Dallas Water Utilities, and Tyson Broad of the Sierra Club. A talk on the basics of Texas water law will be given by Simone Kiel of Freese and Nichols, a consulting firm to the State of Texas.

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