Dallas Blooms, the largest floral festival in the Southwest, returns February 25-April 16, with 500,000 spring-blooming bulbs, thousands of azaleas and hundreds of Japanese cherry trees and a new exhibition of Gary Lee Price’s Great Contributors, including Ruby Bridges, Harriet Tubman, Mother Teresa and Amelia Earhart.
The Rory Meyers Children's Adventure Garden also reopens on Feb. 25.
Lights Out Texas is a campaign of education, awareness, and action that focuses on turning out lights at night during the spring and fall migrations to help protect the billions of migratory birds that fly over Texas annually.
Lights Out Texas advocates say darkening city skies is most crucial during spring migration's peak.
Full Migration Period: March 1 – June 15
Critical Peak Migration Period: April 22 – May 12
P.O.P. is currently holding a St Paddy’s “Green” raffle for a tour for two. Just make a 20-dollar donation in the form on the website link below for a chance to win! Drawing will be held on March 17 and announced on the P.O.P. FW page and website.
Winner gets a POP tour for two that includes a custom garden class abd experience. A tour of the Mineola Nature Preserve , Waldo Way Dairy and historic downtown.
It’s the 150th year of Mineola celebration and beautiful spring presentations of dogwoods and natural beauties!
Contributions will go toward establishing two new food gardens in Mineola!
Contact: Elizabeth at 214-240-9220
Please join us to learn about the fascinating world of lichens in the BRIT Lecture mini-series, Lichen Week! Lectures will be held on Monday, March 13, and Friday, March 17.
Monday Alice Gerlach, PhD, will be presenting “The genus Usnea in the southern Philippines: first phylogenetic approach.” Friday Natalia Koch, PhD, will be presenting “Lichen functional traits as ecological indicators.”
Both lectures will be hybrid format, so join us in person in the Commons in the BRIT building or virtually using the links below:
Monday’s lecture link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85769436979
Friday’s lecture link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83467014750
