2025 Texas Wildflower Day

The 2025 Texas Wildflower Day will take place Apr. 24-25, and will feature keynote speaker Douglas Tallamy, PhD, professor of entomology and wildlife biology at the University of Delaware.

Tallamy focusses on understanding how insects interact with plants and how those interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. He discusses managing suburban and urban landscapes as wildlife preserves, encouraging the use native species and considering the needs of insects and wildlife when planting. He is the author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens.

Tallamy's appearance is sponsored by the Native Plant Society of Texas.

Other features of this year's celebration:

• Photography workshop with Sean Fitzgerald, a nature and conservation photographer and past president of the North American Nature Photography Association. To see his work, visit his website at https://www.seanfitzgerald.com.
• Presentation, Time to Restore by David Gwin, Texas state coordinator for Time to Restore: Connecting People, Plants and Pollinators
• Presentation, How to Make a Pollinator Garden by Sheli Petersen, TWU professor of visual arts.
• Presentation, iNaturalist and Biodiversity by Rachel Richter, urban wildlife biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
• Presentation, Homegrown National Park by Krista de Cooke, strategic partnership and science lead for Homegrown National Park.
• Workshop, Get your garden on the HNP map, by Tom Kirwan, program chair for the Trinity Fork chapter of the Native Plant Society.
• Workshop, watercolors with Sheli Petersen and Jennie Wojtaszek