Events

 Learn. Design. Plant: A Beginner’s Guide to Native Landscaping

Kickstart 2026 by transforming your yard into a thriving habitat for nature, beauty, and balance.

with Haeley Giambalvo, Owner, Native Backyards Home - Native Backyards and Author of “A Beginner's Guide to Native Landscaping”.

Join Haeley for a sixty-minute discussion and high-level overview of a beginner's guide to ecological landscaping with native plants in Texas.

1. Learn:   Native Plant Database - How to find the right plants for your ecoregion of Texas.

2. Design: Native Backyard's Landscape Design - How to plan and design the right place for native plants in your garden.

3. Plant:    Native Plant Gardening for Beginners - A story of how you start, where you find plants, how you comlete a landscape with native plants. 

4. Q&A:     Questions and Answers from the audience.

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In 1980, Texas Woman's University was designated as the location for the annual celebration of Texas Wildflower Day, 

TWU adjunct instructor Carroll Abbott, who was also a wildflower preservationist and lobbyist and founder of the Native Plant Society of Texas, joined former TWU president Mary Evelyn Blagg Huey in lobbying the Texas legislature in the late 1970s to have the fourth Saturday in April designated as Texas Wildflower Day.

The Dr. Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden is the site of each year's celebration, as well as the Ann Stuart Science Center.

“The Texas Woman's University recognizes that the beauty of its native plants has enriched the history of our State and the lives of its people," Blagg Huey said in 1980. "Thus, it has a strong commitment to the conservation, dissemination and appreciation of our state's wildflowers. From this commitment, strong advocacy developed within the University community to support the statutory designation of a State Wildflower Day.”

Details about the events, exhibits, lectures, contests, guided tours of the Butterfly Garden, and workshops will be available in early April 2026.

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