2026 Wildflower Day to focus on pollinators' role in ecosystems

The 2026 Texas Wildflower Day will take place on the TWU Denton campus Apr. 24-25. Texas Woman's University is the designated location for the annual Wildflower Day celebration. The theme for this year's Wildflower Day is Beyond the Bloom, Protecting Pollinators and Preserving our Future.

The keynote speaker is Kim Eierman, founder of EcoBeneficial LLC, an environmental horticulturist specializing in native plants, and author of The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening.

Eierman is an active speaker nationwide on many ecological landscape topics and 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, Eierman 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.

Based in New York, Eierman teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Native Plant Center and Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Other Speakers & Events

Other featured speakers and activities in this year's celebration include:

• Monica Maeckle, journalist and author of The Monarch Migration: its Rise and Fall and Plants with Purpose: Twenty-five Ecosystem Multitaskers
• Cory Ames, Texas storyteller focused on the people, plants, and places shaping a more sustainable future. Through essays, short films, and hands-on native plant guides, he documents the ideas and individuals redefining stewardship in San Antonio and across the Lone Star State. His work invites readers and viewers alike to dig in, look closer, and help make Texas a little wilder and wiser.
• 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, including a Walk and Talk tour with Kim Eierman
• Book signing with Mary Curry, author of North Central Texas Wildflowers: Field Guide Second Edition

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