Texas Wildflower Day

Beyond the Bloom

Protecting Pollinators | Preserving our Future
Friday-Saturday, April 24-25, 2026

Pollinators are essential partners in our food system and natural world, responsible for helping plants reproduce and ecosystems thrive. Native gardens feature plants carefully selected to nourish pollinators year-round, providing food, shelter, and safe passage throughout every season.

Our 2026 Texas Wildflower Day celebrates these pollinators. Learn how native plants support bees, butterflies, birds, and other pollinators—and how simple choices can help protect them for generations to come.

Enter the Photo Contest

Speakers & Activities

Keynote Speaker

Kim Eierman

Kim Eierman is the Founder of EcoBeneficial LLC, an ecological landscape designer, and environmental horticulturist specializing in native plants. Based in New York, Kim teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Native Plant Center and Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Kim is an active speaker nationwide on many ecological landscape topics, presenting for industry conferences, sustainability events, corporate events, environmental organizations, and other groups interested in environmental improvements. Kim also provides horticultural consulting and ecological landscape design to residential, municipal and commercial clients, including landscape architects and engineers.

In addition to being a Certified Horticulturist through the American Society for Horticultural Science, Kim is an Accredited Organic Landcare Professional, a Steering Committee member of The Native Plant Center, and a member of The Ecological Landscape Alliance and Garden Communicators International.

Kim Eierman (pronounced like "Fireman") is the author of the book, The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening.

Friday, April 24, 2026 Schedule

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Time	Activity	Location
8-9 am	Breakfast \| Book Signing \| Posters & Exhibits (including DISD student art, photo contest)	ACT 2nd Floor Lobby
9-9:15 am	Welcome & Administrator Remarks	ACT 301
9:15-10:15 am	Kim Eierman \| The Pollinator Victory Garden Author of The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening	ACT 301
10:15 -10:45 am	Cory Ames \| Digital Storyteller Texas storyteller focused on the people, plants, and places shaping a more sustainable future.	ACT 301
10:45 - 11:00 am	Break & Book Signing	ACT 2nd Floor Lobby
11-11:55 am	Monika Maeckle \| Plants for Pollinators Journalist and author of The Monarch Migration: its Rise and Fall and Plants with Purpose: Twenty-five Ecosystem Multitaskers	ACT 301
11:55 am	Announcements	ACT 301
12-1:30 pm	Lunch Break*	TWU Dining Hall
1:30-2 pm	Book Signing	ACT 2nd Floor Lobby
2-3 pm	Kathy Saucier \| Virtual Session \| Winter Rosettes & Seedlings for Identification Native Plant Society of Texas member	ACT 301
3-4 pm	Carol Clark \| Planting for Monarchs and Other Pollinators Includes Milkweed Seed Germination Demonstration	ACT 301
4-4:15 pm	Break & Book Signing	ACT 2nd Floor Lobby
4:15-4:30 pm	Photo Contest Awards Ceremony	ACT 2nd Floor Lobby
4:30-4:45 pm	Concluding Remarks	ACT 2nd Floor Lobby

Saturday, April 25, 2026 Schedule

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Time	Activity	Location
9-10 am	Chelle Deskeere \| Composting Workshop	Dr. Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden I
9-10 am	Kim Eierman \| Walk and Talk: Plant-pollinator Interactions	Dr. Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden I
10-11:30am	Watercolor Workshop & Kids' Activities	Carroll Abbot Wildflower Sanctuary, Dr. Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden II
11:45am - 12:55pm	Lunch Break*	TWU Dining Hall
1-2:30 pm	Tour of the Gardens	Carroll Abbot Wildflower Sanctuary, Dr. Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden II

*Lunch costs are not included, but we hope you join us at the TWU Dining Hall

Page last updated 8:59 AM, March 27, 2026