Just Dig It!
Practical Ideas for Adding Native Plants to Your Yard
Saturday January 18, 2025
9 am to 2:30 pm
Lewisville Thrive, Dogwood Room
1950 S Valley Pkwy.
Lewisville, TX 75067
Keynote Speaker:
- Noted horticulture author Neil Diboll, owner of Prairie Nursery, consulting ecologist, and author of The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants, will present via Zoom: Prairie Garden Design Principles. Learn the tenets of design and maintenance when gardening with prairie plants.
Featured Speakers:
- Susan Abernathy, a Blackland Prairie Master Naturalist, is a well-known local native gardener. She and others from her chapter will share their journeys with pollinator pocket gardens. Get insight on how they got started and the process of building and maintaining a native landscape.
- Anna Hurst, Owner of Eco Blossom Nursery in Ft. Worth, will recommend native and well-adapted perennials, shrubs, grasses, trees, vines and ground covers that can stand up to the Texas climate.
- Missy Singleton, private lands biologist for US Fish and Wildlife Service, will explore the wonders of pocket prairies.
Tables:
- Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson, from Native American Seeds, will host an information and vending table and lead participants in a seed activity.
- Trinity Forks chapter Native Plant Society of Texas will host a table with information in North Texas native plants.
The cost for this seminar is $40 and includes:
- Four outstanding expert speakers
- Morning coffee, tea and juice
- Boxed lunch at noon