Join us on August 18th, at 7 PM CST for a Deep Dive, with Susan Abernathy presenting on Blackland Prairie Texas Master Naturalists Pollinator Gardens: 2025.
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Topic: Blackland Prairie Texas Master Naturalists Pollinator Gardens: 2025
A presentation of photos of home pollinator gardens created and maintained by members of the BPTMN: Sharla Stack, Phillip Olson, Jackie and Harvey Mette, and Tina, ED and Dennis Burke. Notes on methods, a plant list and an opportunity to ask questions of the homeowners will be included in the presentation
Speaker: A native Texan, and life long nature lover, Susan has been a Texas Master Naturalist with the Blackland Prairie Chapter since 2018. She has volunteered in a variety of administrative roles and has enjoyed work on prairie restoration in Collin and Hunt counties. She currently maintains a pocket prairie and a Monarch Watch pollinator garden at home in Plano and one in Pilot Point in Denton county.
Understanding and educating others about the critical role of pollinators is an important part of her volunteer efforts. She also enjoys birding and hiking whenever she has the chance.
Burke Plant List
Trees:
- Buttonbush
- Desert Willow
- Eve’s Necklace
- Mexican Plum
- Mountain Laurel
- Pecan
Flowering plants, shrubs and vines:
- Ajuga
- American Beautyberry
- Autumn Sage
- Basket flower
- Black Eye Susan
- Blackfoot Daisy
- Blanket Flower
- Blue Curls
- Blue Flax
- Butterfly Weed (tuberosa)
- Carolina Snailseed
- Cedar Sage
- Chocolate Daisy
- Columbine
- Coneflower, several varieties
- Copper Canyon Daisy
- Coreopsis
- Cowpen Daisy
- Crossvine
- Dakota Mock Vervain
- Dayflower
- Dutchman’s Pipevine
- Flame Acanthus
- Four Nerve Daisy
- Fragrant Mistflower (Shrubby Boneset)
- Frostweed
- Gaurdia
- Goldenrod, several varieties
- Green Milkweed
- Hairy Wedelia
- Horsemint
- Illinois Bundleflower
- Inland (Northern) Sea Oats
- Ironweed
- Joe Pye Weed
- Lambs Ear
- Little Blue Stem
- Mealy Blue Sage, 2 varieties
- Mexican Hat
- Native Wisteria Vine
- Oak Leaf Hydrangea
- Oxalis
- Partridge Pea
- Passionflower Vine, yellow and purple
- Pigeonberry
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Prairie Parsley
- Prairie Phlox
- Prickly Pear
- Primrose
- Rock Penstemon
- Rock Rose
- Senna
- Silver Pony Foot
- Skeleton Leaf Goldeneye
- Skullcap
- Snow on the Prairie
- Spanish Dagger
- Speedwell
- Spiderwort
- St John’s Wort
- Swamp Milkweed
- Texas Star
- Turks Cap
- Wild Blue Indigo
- Winecup, 2 varieties
- Wood Fern
- Wood Violets
- Wooly Pipevine
- Yarrow
- Yucca, red
METTE PLANT LIST
Vines:
- Coral Honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens
- Crossvine Bignonia capreolata
- Passion Flower Passiflora incarnata
- Trumpet Vine Campsis radicans
- Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Flowering Plants:
- Augusta and Henry Duhlberg, Black and Blue
- Autumn Sage Salvia greggii
- Bergamot Monard fistulosa
- Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
- Cedar Sage Salvia roemeriana
- Columbine Aquilegia chrysantha
- Coneflower Rudbeckia
- Fall Obedient Plant Physotegia virginiana
- Four-Nerve Daisy Tetraneuris scapose
- Green Milkweed Asclepias veridis
- Gregg’s Blue Mistflower Conoclinium greggii
- Liatris Liatris
- Mealy Blue Sage Salvia farinacea
- Mexican Hat Ratibida columnaris
- Prairie penstemon Penstemon cobaea
- Prairie Verbena Glandularia bipinnatifida
- Rattlesnake Master Eryngium yuccifolium
- Rock Rose Pavonia lasiopetala
- Ruellia (tall) Ruellia nudiflora
- Shrubby Skullcup Scutellaria drummondii
- Sunflower Helianthus
- Texas Lantana Lantana horrida
- Turks Cap Malvaviscus arboreus
- Winecup Callirhoe involucrata
- Yarrow Achillea millefolium
- Zexmenia Wedelia hispida
Shrubs:
- American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana
- Aromatic Aster Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
- Coralberry Symphoricarpus orbiculatus
- Flame Acanthus Anisacanthus wrightii
Olson Plant List:
Trees/large shrubs:
- Bald Cypress
- Buttonbush
- Desert Willow
- Elderberry
- Possomhaw
- Roughleaf Dogwood
- Shumard Oak
Shrubs, flowering plants, vines:
- American Germander
- Asters, swamp, aromatic fall and heath
- Beebalm
- Black eyed Susan
- Blackfoot Daisy
- Blue Curls
- Blue eyed grass
- Butterfly weed (tuberosa)
- Chicory (there naturally)
- Chili Pequin
- Coneflower, several varieties
- Coreopsis
- Dandelions (there naturally)
- False Indigo, blue
- Flame Acanthus
- Fragrant Mistflower -Shrubby Boneset
- Frogfruit
- Gaura, several varieties
- Golden Alexander
- Goldenrod, several varieties
- Green Milkweed
- Ground Cherry
- Illinois Bundleflower
- Indian Blanket
- Joe Pye Weed
- Lantana
- Mexican Mullein
- Mistflowers
- New Jersey Tea
- Obedient Plant
- Partridge Pea
- Passionflower Vine
- Penstemon
- Philadelphia Fleabane
- Pigeonberry
- Prairie Blazing Star Liatris
- Primroses
- Sage, several varieties
- Salvias, several varieties
- Shrubby Yellowcrest (from south Tx)
- Skullcap
- Sorrel Vine
- Spiderwort
- Sundrops
- Sunflower, several varieties
- Swamp Milkweed (white)
- Texas Bluebells
- Texas Star Hibiscus
- Texas Thistle
- Turks Cap
- Winecup
- Yarrow
- Yucca, red and yellow
- Zexmenia
Stack Plant List
Trees added:
- Desert Willow
- Live Oak
- Mexican Buckeye
- Mexican Plum
- Pecan
- Possomhaw
- Red Oak
- Redbud
- Yaupon Holly
Shrubs added:
- Agarita
- American Beautyberry
- Carolina Buckthorn
- Coralberry
- Elbow Bush
- Giant Coralbean
- Scarlet Buckeye
- Texas Sage
- Wax Myrtle (dwarf and standard varieties)
Flowering plants, vines and groundcover added
- Amnosonia
- Artemsia
- Baptisia
- Beebalm
- Black Dalea
- Cedar sage
- Chili Pequin
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Coreopsis
- Crossvine
- Esperanza
- Fall Aster
- Flame Acanthus
- Four Nerve Daisy
- Fragrant Mistflower
- Frogfruit
- Frostweed
- Gallardia
- Gaurdia
- Goldenrod
- Horseherb
- Ironweed
- Lantana
- Leatherleaf Clematis
- Liatris
- Mexican Bush Sage
- Nolina
- Obedient plant
- Passion Vine
- Penstemons – 2 varieties
- Pipevine
- Rattlesnake Master
- Rock Rose
- Ruellia – dwarf
- Sabal Minor Palm
- Salvias – several varieties
- Self Heal
- Skullcaps
- Snakeherb
- Sundrops
- Tharp Spiderwort
- White Avens (a volunteer)
- Wood fern
- Yuccas – 2 varieties
When: August 18, 2025, at 7 PM CST
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