Events

Our upcoming webinar with Basil Camu explores practical, evidence based ways to heal suburban and urban landscapes by working with trees, soil, and natural systems, drawing on real world practices from Leaf & Limb and community centered models for restoring life where we live, work, and play.!  

Join Joey Santore, creator of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, for a candid Wild Ones National Webinar examining how inherited garden aesthetics shape native plant landscapes. Drawing on field experience and real ecology, Joey challenges tidy design norms and explores why dense, irregular plant communities are often the most resilient and ecologically sound.

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.

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon!