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Pollinator Day

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Pollinator Day (Free!)

Saturday, July 16

Lady Bird Day (Free!)

Saturday, July 23

Tue 05

Summer Series: Get FIT

July 5 @ 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Tue 05

Summer Series: Get FIT

July 5 @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Wed 06

Summer Series: Yoga FIT

July 6 @ 8:00 am - 8:45 am
Thu 07

Summer Series: Get FIT

July 7 @ 7:30 am - 8:30 am
Thu 07

Summer Series: Get FIT

July 7 @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am

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What are your Fourth of July plans? The Wildflower Center will be open normal hours and some of our plants look like ...

Jul 3

Open
What are your Fourth of July plans? The Wildflower Center will be open normal hours and some of our plants look like fireworks! Plan your visit via link in bio. PHOTO: Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

There are shady spots all over the Wildflower Center — including beneath the petals of purple coneflowers (Echinacea ...

Jul 2

Open
There are shady spots all over the Wildflower Center — including beneath the petals of purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea), if you're extra tiny. Can you spot the grasshopper in this photo? Plan your Wildflower Center visit via link in bio. #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Join us THIS EVENING for the final Nature Nights of the season. It's all about caves, mud & water, so wear ...

Jun 30

Open
Join us THIS EVENING for the final Nature Nights of the season. It's all about caves, mud & water, so wear something machine washable ;). Follow link in bio for deets. P.S. If you haven't heard, there will be cave tours! Sign-up for those begins at 5:45 p.m. in the Family Garden. PHOTO: Mud painting at the Wildflower Center #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Look closely! This isn’t JUST a picture of a native coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) leaf. What else do you ...

Jun 29

Open
Look closely! This isn’t JUST a picture of a native coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) leaf. What else do you see?   PHOTO: Katherine Daniels (@naturewalker1)   #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

For this month’s mandala, artist Larissa van der Steen Quon collected plant matter from our Savanna Meadow, which she ...

Jun 27

Open
For this month’s mandala, artist Larissa van der Steen Quon collected plant matter from our Savanna Meadow, which she says has been seasonally "sun washed into muted golden tones." Doesn’t this hypnotic composition of architectural seed heads resemble the sun itself? PHOTO: Larissa van der Steen Quon (@wildalcove) #MandalaMonday #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Want to explore one of the Wildflower Center’s caves? Join us for the final Nature Nights of the season this Thursday,...

Jun 26

Open
Want to explore one of the Wildflower Center’s caves? Join us for the final Nature Nights of the season this Thursday, June 30 — and be sure to arrive early! Sign-up for cave tours will begin at 5:45 p.m. in the Family Garden, and space is limited. For safety information and details about events happening above ground (scavenger hunts, mud painting, etc.) see link in bio. PHOTO: Family Caving by Tanya Zastrow #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Planning to hang out near a body of water this weekend? You have something in common with American crinum lilies (Crinum...

Jun 25

Open
Planning to hang out near a body of water this weekend? You have something in common with American crinum lilies (Crinum americanum)! Find them blooming around freshwater marshes, cypress swamps, and the edges of ditches and lakes. The beautiful patch pictured here resides in our Wetland Pond. Learn more about American crinum lilies via link in bio. #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

It's #PollinatorWeek, and the busy bee in this video seems to be celebrating. "Party on the Texas lantana ...

Jun 23

Open
It's #PollinatorWeek, and the busy bee in this video seems to be celebrating. "Party on the Texas lantana (Lantana urticoides) everyone!" We've planned a few festivities of our own. Join us this evening for Nature Nights: Pollinators and the Plants They Love. Admission is FREE. There'll even be a puppet show! See link in bio for details #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Allow us to brighten up your hump day — Field of Light tickets go on sale next month! See link in bio for details ...

Jun 22

Open
Allow us to brighten up your hump day — Field of Light tickets go on sale next month! See link in bio for details about the exhibition, which explores the intersection of art, technology and nature. #FieldOfLightAustin #LadyBirdWildflowers #BruceMunroLight #StayWild Precedent image - Copyright © 2022 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photograph by Mark Pickthall.

A Wildflower Center staff member recently noticed two lookalikes growing side by side in our Hill Country Meadow. One is...

Jun 20

Open
A Wildflower Center staff member recently noticed two lookalikes growing side by side in our Hill Country Meadow. One is a Texas gayfeather (Liatris punctata var. Mucronata) and the other is a woolly ironweed (Vernonia lindheimeri) — but which is which?! Hint: These plants will be a whole lot easier to differentiate when the one on the right starts blooming. See answer below hashtags. #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild . . . . . . . . . . ANSWER: Woolly ironweed (Left), Texas gayfeather (Right)

What are your Fourth of July plans? The Wildflower Center will be open normal hours and some of our plants look like ...

Jul 3

Open
What are your Fourth of July plans? The Wildflower Center will be open normal hours and some of our plants look like fireworks! Plan your visit via link in bio. PHOTO: Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

There are shady spots all over the Wildflower Center — including beneath the petals of purple coneflowers (Echinacea ...

Jul 2

Open
There are shady spots all over the Wildflower Center — including beneath the petals of purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea), if you're extra tiny. Can you spot the grasshopper in this photo? Plan your Wildflower Center visit via link in bio. #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Join us THIS EVENING for the final Nature Nights of the season. It's all about caves, mud & water, so wear ...

Jun 30

Open
Join us THIS EVENING for the final Nature Nights of the season. It's all about caves, mud & water, so wear something machine washable ;). Follow link in bio for deets. P.S. If you haven't heard, there will be cave tours! Sign-up for those begins at 5:45 p.m. in the Family Garden. PHOTO: Mud painting at the Wildflower Center #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Look closely! This isn’t JUST a picture of a native coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) leaf. What else do you ...

Jun 29

Open
Look closely! This isn’t JUST a picture of a native coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) leaf. What else do you see?   PHOTO: Katherine Daniels (@naturewalker1)   #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

For this month’s mandala, artist Larissa van der Steen Quon collected plant matter from our Savanna Meadow, which she ...

Jun 27

Open
For this month’s mandala, artist Larissa van der Steen Quon collected plant matter from our Savanna Meadow, which she says has been seasonally "sun washed into muted golden tones." Doesn’t this hypnotic composition of architectural seed heads resemble the sun itself? PHOTO: Larissa van der Steen Quon (@wildalcove) #MandalaMonday #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Want to explore one of the Wildflower Center’s caves? Join us for the final Nature Nights of the season this Thursday,...

Jun 26

Open
Want to explore one of the Wildflower Center’s caves? Join us for the final Nature Nights of the season this Thursday, June 30 — and be sure to arrive early! Sign-up for cave tours will begin at 5:45 p.m. in the Family Garden, and space is limited. For safety information and details about events happening above ground (scavenger hunts, mud painting, etc.) see link in bio. PHOTO: Family Caving by Tanya Zastrow #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Planning to hang out near a body of water this weekend? You have something in common with American crinum lilies (Crinum...

Jun 25

Open
Planning to hang out near a body of water this weekend? You have something in common with American crinum lilies (Crinum americanum)! Find them blooming around freshwater marshes, cypress swamps, and the edges of ditches and lakes. The beautiful patch pictured here resides in our Wetland Pond. Learn more about American crinum lilies via link in bio. #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

It's #PollinatorWeek, and the busy bee in this video seems to be celebrating. "Party on the Texas lantana ...

Jun 23

Open
It's #PollinatorWeek, and the busy bee in this video seems to be celebrating. "Party on the Texas lantana (Lantana urticoides) everyone!" We've planned a few festivities of our own. Join us this evening for Nature Nights: Pollinators and the Plants They Love. Admission is FREE. There'll even be a puppet show! See link in bio for details #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild

Allow us to brighten up your hump day — Field of Light tickets go on sale next month! See link in bio for details ...

Jun 22

Open
Allow us to brighten up your hump day — Field of Light tickets go on sale next month! See link in bio for details about the exhibition, which explores the intersection of art, technology and nature. #FieldOfLightAustin #LadyBirdWildflowers #BruceMunroLight #StayWild Precedent image - Copyright © 2022 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photograph by Mark Pickthall.

A Wildflower Center staff member recently noticed two lookalikes growing side by side in our Hill Country Meadow. One is...

Jun 20

Open
A Wildflower Center staff member recently noticed two lookalikes growing side by side in our Hill Country Meadow. One is a Texas gayfeather (Liatris punctata var. Mucronata) and the other is a woolly ironweed (Vernonia lindheimeri) — but which is which?! Hint: These plants will be a whole lot easier to differentiate when the one on the right starts blooming. See answer below hashtags. #LadyBirdWildflowers #StayWild . . . . . . . . . . ANSWER: Woolly ironweed (Left), Texas gayfeather (Right)

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