Texas Wildflower Day
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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.
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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.
Monica Maeckle, journalist and author of The Monarch Migration: its Rise and Fall and Plants with Purpose: Twenty-five Ecosystem Multitaskers
Cory Ames, writer, naturalist, and storyteller based in San Antonio, TX. Ames' YouTube channel shares native plant how-tos, garden tours, and interviews.
Carol Clark, a Texas Master Naturalist, long-time member of the Native Plant Society of Texas, Chair of the Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas committee of NPSOT, and a Monarch Watch Conservation Specialist, will present on Planting for Monarchs and Other Pollinators and host a Milkweed seed germination demonstration
Kathy Saucier, member of NPSOT, will present on Winter Rosettes & Seedlings for Identification. Saucier’s experience with native plants goes back to the 1980’s. Today, she maintains a nursery that has over 1300 native plants, many of which she donates to the Trinity Forks spring plant sale each year
Photo Contest of native plants and plant-pollinator interactions in the Dr. Bettye Myers Butterfly Garden
Watercolor Workshop with Sheli Peterson, MFA, TWU Professor of Art & Graphic Design
Composting Demonstration with Chelle Deskeere, of Plant Parenthood
Butterfly Garden Tours
Book signing with Mary Curry, author of North Central Texas Wildflowers: Field Guide Second Edition
Full schedule coming soon!
Page last updated 9:15 AM, February 24, 2026