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Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2024 Monthly meeting Speaker - Lisa Travis Subject - Identifying the Native Trees of North Texas Enjoyment of our native broad-leaved trees of North Texas is enhanced when you can correctly identify the species and understand more about its characteristics. Lisa has created a structure for anyone to easily identify the native broad-leaved tree...

Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2024 Monthly meeting Speaker - Kerry Gray-Harrison Subject - Healthy Habitat: The Hidden Plants and Insects at Texas Discovery Gardens The grasses, trees, forbs, and shrubs at the Texas Discovery Gardens, a seven-acre garden in Dallas’ Fair Park, are managed with ecology in mind. This habitat supports a great diversity of beetles, bugs, and bo...

Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2024 Monthly meeting Speaker - Lauren Simpson Subject - Creating a Pollinator Paradise at Home Pollinators and other wildlife face many challenges to their survival, and they need our help. The good news is that we can take simple steps to help them-right here, right now, right in our own gardens. Our June 4th program features Lauren Simpson i...

Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2024 Monthly meeting Speaker - Chad Cummings - AgriLife County Extension Agent Subject - An Integrated Vegetation Management Approach to Controlling Invasive Plants Chad will be discussing invasive plant’s impact on our economy, biodiversity, and biophysical processes, and potential control mechanisms. In addition, he will cover common North T...

Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2024 Monthly meeting Speaker - Melanie Schuchart Subject - Cultivating a Butterfly Haven with Native Plants of North Texas Melanie will discuss many of the native plants available to grow in our area to help provide sustenance and protection for butterflies, including some you probably know and some unusual ones that you might not. Melanie Sch...

Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2024 Monthly meeting Speaker - Deedy Wright Subject - I’m Being Invaded! What Can I Do? Her talk will define the term “invasive” and discuss reasons for how and why these plants are here, and the damage they do to our environment. In addition, Deedy will provide ecoregion-specific “alterNative” suggestions for some of the more common invasive ...

Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2024 Monthly meeting Speaker - George Diggs Subject - The Blackland Prairie Across Time The Blackland Prairie, one of the major vegetational areas of Texas, has had an immense impact on the development of the state of Texas. The presentation will begin by looking briefly at what the Blackland Prairie is and where it occurs. The talk will then ...

Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2024 Monthly meeting Speaker - Cherie Colburn Subject - 7 Simple Steps: Garden Design Made Easy Cherie is a professional landscape designer and native Texan. She has designed hundreds of low-maintenance commercial and residential landscape designs since 1994 through her company, Nature’s Tapestry. She has also helped create schoolyard gardens ...

Native Plant Society of Texas Collin County Chapter 2023 Monthly meeting Speaker - Amy Martin Subject - Wild DFW: A Deep Dive into North Texas Ecotone & its Natural Wonders Author Amy Martin shares the fun yet nerdy naturalist material from Wild DFW: Explore the amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth. Why is North Texas an epic ecotone? What is the Great Trinity Forest the easternmost example ...

Video snippet from our recent nature walk at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney. Carol Clark expertly guided us on a walk through the sanctuary. Here she discusses Yellow Passion Vine (Passiflora lutea) and Milkweed Vine (Matelea reticulata).

Video snippet from our recent nature walk at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney. Carol Clark expertly guided us on a walk through the sanctuary. Here she discusses the Indian Plaintain (Arnoglossum plantagineum), including a unique feature of the plant.

Continuing our mini-series on highlights of the recent Nature Walk at the Heard Museum. This time the focus is on Smooth Marbleseed (Onosmodium bejariense). Carol mentions that it includes a scorpioid cyme, see more at link below.

Carol Clark continues discussion of Smooth Marbleseed (Onosmodium bejariense) at the Heard Natural Science Museum and Sanctuary. The discussion includes information on how the size of the Bumblebee gives them an advantage in gathering the plant’s “goodies”

Another short video from our recent chapter Nature Walk at the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary. Carol discusses how a small hill has an abundant variety of native flowers - including Wild Hyacinth (Camassia scilloides), various onions, and other native plants.