Upcoming Events at Fort Worth Botanic Garden
Sat Mar 5, 8:00 AM - Sat Mar 5, 1:00 PM
3220 Botanic Garden Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX 76107
Community: Fort Worth
Description
Start "Getting your home landscape ready for spring" stimulating your knowledge & love of gardening making use of expert's recommendations.
Event Details
YardSmart offers you effective, beneficial ways to use water wisely in the landscape. Topics vary by season and have included butterfly gardening, landscape watering, container gardens, perennials, trees, rainwater harvesting, edibles, lawn care and much more. This conference is offered each spring and fall.
FREE LANDSCAPE CONSULTATIONS. If you would like a one-on-one landscape consultation, please be sure to sign up on your registration form. (You will be assigned a time the day of the event.)
INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. Doors open at 8:10 a.m.
Tarrant Regional Water District will have a special barrel-building workshop at Fort Worth YardSmart.
Capture water while it is raining this spring to use on your landscape later! Join the free workshop to learn how. Then, build a rain barrel to take home!
To register for this special bilingual barrel building workshop visit https://syardsmartrwh.eventbrite.com
YardSmart conferences are at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd.
*Facility is wheelchair accessible. To arrange for sign language interpretation, call TDD 817-392-8544 at least 72 hours prior to event.
AGENDA
8:10 a.m. Sign in
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Megan O'Connell, BRIT
9:35 - 10:30 a.m. Track 1a: Heather Bass, Native Plants for North Texas,
Tarrant Regional Water District
Track 1b: Laura Post, Papermaking with Plants : Regional
Ecology Through Art
10:30 - 1 1a.m. BREAK
11:05 - noon Track 2a: Master Gardeners Association, Soil and Site Preparation
Track 2b: Dr. Dotty Woodson and Claudia Montoya, Saving from
a Rainy Day: DIY Rain Barrel
12:05 - 1 p.m. Megan O'Connell, BRIT
NOTE: Free landscape consultations will be available simultaneously to this agenda. If you wish to register for a consultation, please let us know.
FREE LANDSCAPE CONSULTATIONS. If you would like a one-on-one landscape consultation, please be sure to sign up on your registration form. (You will be assigned a time the day of the event.)
INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. Doors open at 8:10 a.m.
Tarrant Regional Water District will have a special barrel-building workshop at Fort Worth YardSmart.
Capture water while it is raining this spring to use on your landscape later! Join the free workshop to learn how. Then, build a rain barrel to take home!
To register for this special bilingual barrel building workshop visit https://syardsmartrwh.eventbrite.com
YardSmart conferences are at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd.
*Facility is wheelchair accessible. To arrange for sign language interpretation, call TDD 817-392-8544 at least 72 hours prior to event.
AGENDA
8:10 a.m. Sign in
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Megan O'Connell, BRIT
9:35 - 10:30 a.m. Track 1a: Heather Bass, Native Plants for North Texas,
Tarrant Regional Water District
Track 1b: Laura Post, Papermaking with Plants : Regional
Ecology Through Art
10:30 - 1 1a.m. BREAK
11:05 - noon Track 2a: Master Gardeners Association, Soil and Site Preparation
Track 2b: Dr. Dotty Woodson and Claudia Montoya, Saving from
a Rainy Day: DIY Rain Barrel
12:05 - 1 p.m. Megan O'Connell, BRIT
NOTE: Free landscape consultations will be available simultaneously to this agenda. If you wish to register for a consultation, please let us know.
