Native Plant Society of Texas -Houston

Minnette Marr, Conservation Botanist and Research Associate, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on Bluebonnets, Big Red Sage and Biodiversity Benchmarks. “Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center has provided formal and informal programs about native-to-Texas plants and central Texas landscapes for almost forty years. The Public Garden Sustainability Index is one of the newer tools in the... Read More →

by Joey Santore, a self-taught botanist and producer of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t YouTube channel, which he describes as “a low-brow, crass approach to plant ecology as muttered by a misanthropic Chicago Italian.” Joey's presentation to the Houston Native Prairie Association will be a series of slides of prairie plants encountered in this open,... Read More →

Presentation Description: Thanks to its size and geographic position, Texas is home to nearly 30,000 species of insects, likely making its insect population the most diverse in the nation. Ranging from eastern and western to temperate and tropical species, this vast array of insects can be difficult to identify. In Common Insects of Texas and... Read More →

Meeting Presentation: "Nine Natives for Shade Gardens – Creating Simple Gardens With Native Prairie Plants" by Beth Clark, Professional Landscape Architect with Clark Condon, Landscape Architecture. Following the original Nine Natives, presented in 2018, The Houston Native Prairie Association, Katy Prairie Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy Texas, and Clark Condon, Landscape Architecture present the next step:... Read More →