Find information on what to plant in your own gardens this fall (or any time of the year) as well as learn about local events, volunteer opportunities, native plant presentations, local online resources and more!
There are so many different ways you can be involved – find the information you are looking for here to participate in Native Plant Week in El Paso or Big Bend.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, October 13 Native Plant Presentations and Chihuahuan Desert Garden Tours on the hour. The documentary film “Green Fire” about Aldo Leopold will be screened at 1:30 pm. Cooking with native plants demonstration by Master Gardener Jim Hastings at 10:30 am and presentation on “Bullet Proof Plants” at 11:30 am and 3:00 pm. Centennial Museum at University of Texas El Paso. More information.
TRIED AND TRUE NATIVE PLANTS
Blackfoot Daisy (Melampodium leucanthum)
Superb Beardtongue (Penstemon superbus) and Firecracker Penstemon (Penstemon eatonii)
All Leucophyllums
Esperanza / Yellow Bells (Tecoma stans)
Flame Acanthus (Anisacanthus quadrifidis wrightii)
Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis laevigata var. reticulata)
Chinkapin Oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)
Apache Plume (Fallugia paradoxa)
Paperflower (Psilostrophe tagetina)
Sideoats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis)
Black Grama (Bouteloua eriopoda)
Claret Cup (Echinocereus species)
Texas Rainbow Cactus (Echinocereus dasyacanthus)
Soaptree Yucca (Yucca elata)
New Mexico Agave (Agave parryi ssp. neomexicana)
Pricklypears (Opuntia species)
LOCAL DEMONSTRATION GARDENS
Wyler Aerial Tramway State Park Wildscape – plants native to Franklin Mountain State Park
Chihuahuan Desert Gardens Wildscape at UTEP – plants native to the northern Chihuahuan Desert
Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center - a desert botanical garden, 1400 sq. ft. cactus and succulent greenhouse, and over 3 miles of hiking trails located 4 miles south of Ft Davis on Highway 118
Cactus Garden at Museum of the Big Bend – on the Sul Ross State University campus at Alpine
