Videos of most recent Garden Club meetings are available by visiting our YouTube Channel.
April 2025 "North Texas Tree Identification" by Courtney Blevins, Regional Forester with Texas Forestry Service. Click here for presentation.
March 2025 "Landscape Design with Sian Rees". Sian is a Master Gardener and a professional landscaper. Click here for presentation.
February 2025 "Food Scaping: Eat the Yard" by Daniel Cunningham, leading horticultural expert. Click here for presentation.
January 2025 "Attracting Bluebirds and Other Cavity Nesters" Mark Byrd, Cavity Nester Conservancy Operations Officer and Board Member Click here for presentation.
November 2024 "Our Friend, The Snake" K.C. Rudy, Herpetologist Click here for presentation
October 2024 "Wicked Plants" Kevin Burns, Dallas County Master Gardener Click here for presentation
September 2024 "Solving Local Landscape Concerns with Native Plants" Mason Marsh and Betsy Marsh Click here for presentation
April 2024 "Rainwater Harvesting and Rain Barrels" Tarrant County Master Gardeners Bobbye Hitzfeld and Dick Pafford. Click here for presentation.
March 2024 "Growing Vegetables from Seed" Jon Whitinger of Victory Seed Company. Click here for presentation.
February 2024 "Backyard Photography" Bruce Rosenstiel. Tips for improving your backyard photography. Click here for presentation.
January 2024 "Color in Your Garden" Barbara Baker. This presentation was not recorded.
November 2023 "Taking the Mystery out of Growing Orchids" by Dottie Woodson, President, Fort Worth Orchid Society. Click Here for Presentation.
October 2023 "Spruce Up Christmas" with Sandra Flores. Click Here for Presentation.
September 2023 "Peace, Love, and Milagros" with Steven Chamblee, Executive Director of the Longview Arboretum and Nature Center, Longview, Texas.Click here for Presentation.
April 2023 Coy Poitier program titled "Soilless Seed Starting and What to do After Seeds are Planted" demonstrated methods on how to start seeds without soil. He also shared how to care for plants once they are planted in the garden. Click here for Presentation or Click for Questions & Answers.
March 2023 Bill Utley discusses cactus and succulent plants for the hobbyist or home gardener. His instructions include the basics of cultivating and propagating succulents in pots and in the landscape, including the proper pot size, potting soil, light requirements and fertilizing. Click here for Presentation or Click for Questions & Answers.
February 2023 Our February speaker Linda Wilson provided additional information on the plants and insects discussed during her presentation. The program was not recorded so the information is provided as a resource. Click here for Presentation or Click for Questions & Answers.
January 2023 Jim Jones from the Audubon Society presents how to better learn about and understand the beauty and uniqueness of birds in our backyards. Click here to watch.
November 2022 Mary Lou Brieger will answer the question, "What is Keyhole Gardening?" Learn how the African garden design was implemented by CARE in Zimbabwe during the mid 1990's to encourage people to grow their own food. Click here to watch.
October 2022 Rachel Richter, Texas Parks and Wildlife Urban Wildlife Biologist, presented a program titled "Coyotes and Bobcats in Our Neighborhoods." The program provided an overview of coyotes and bobcats including their biology, common behaviors and how to prevent them from becoming a nuisance in urban areas. Click here to watch.
March 2022 "Lights Out for Wildlife" is presented by Ben Jones, of the Texas Conservation Alliance. His presentation explains how to save migratory birds from light pollution induced collisions. Click here to watch.
February 2022 "Bird Food with Wings: All About Moths!" is presented by Sam Kieschnick, Texas Parks & Wildlife Urban Biologist. He explains how interesting moths are and how to identify various species. Click here to watch.
January 2022 "The Many Ways to Propagate Plants and Cultivate Friendship" is presented by Wanda Stutsman, Tarrant County Master Gardener. Click here to watch.
November 2021 "My Photographic Journey...so far" presented by Larry Waisanen. He discusses some basic garden, botanical and landscape photography concepts he has learned over the years and demonstrates how to apply them to photography. Click here to watch.
October 2021 "Behind the Scenes at the Dallas Arboretum" presented by Denise and Max Davis, volunteers at the Dallas Arboretum. The video presents an overview of what it takes to keep the Arboretum beautiful year-round, and how the staff prepares the garden beds to flow from one festival to another. Click here to watch.
September 2021 "Weather Changes Impacting Gardening" presented by Jeff Ray, Channel 11 Meteorologist and fellow gardener. Jeff has started a weekly Gardening 101 TV series. He talks about how weather changes around the world and across north Texas will changes in how we garden. Click here to watch video or Click here for Jeff's presentation.
Jeff Ray hosts a weekly Gardening 101 show on CBS Channel 11. Click here to watch the Gardening 101 shows.
April 2021 "Love It or Leave It" Find inspiration for transforming specific areas into gardens that you love. Lots of before and after descriptions and pictures will be presented. Click here to watch.
March 2021 "On Golden Pond" Ponds are some of the most popular types of landscape features bringing a whole other dimension to outdoor living spaces. Sandra Bowen shares her research and experiences with ponds. Click Here to watch.
February 2021 "Citizen Science" What if you find a plant or bug but don't know what it is? Citizen science is a useful tool to discover these answers. Sam Kieschnick explains how to use the iNaturalist app. Click Here to watch.
January 2021 "Beneficial Insects" Gail Manning is the entomologist at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens and a monarch butterfly conservationist. The program showcases beneficial insects and how to attract and keep them in your garden with insectary flowers and habitat. Click here to watch.
November 2020 "Ikebana Grows Around the World" A brief history of Ikebana and beautiful examples of arrangements of the many different ikebana schools. Click here to watch.
October 2020 "Bats" Kate Rudogren, Director of Special Projects of the Bat World Sanctuary in Arlington Texas, revealed the many ways that bats impact life on earth, and explored some of the myths and mysteries surrounding these misunderstood mammals. Click here to watch. Click here to watch.
September 2020 "Remarkable Native Plants for Diverse Home Gardens" Betsy Marsh, a local educator and native plant enthusiast, shares her own adventures with native plants, explains why they make a difference and helps you find the right native plants for your home garden or landscape. Click here to watch.
February 2020 "Lawn Gone" Randy Johnson, who has served as Director of Horticulture at the Texas Discovery Gardens, discusses how to reduce or eliminate your lawn and replace it with a beautiful, functional, native-centric landscape. Click here to watch.
January 2020 "Japanese Gardens" Nick Esthus, Senior Gardener for the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, addresses themes, inspiration and cultural influence of Japanese gardens, both within Japan and abroad -- and how to recreate them in our own gardens. After the morning program, Mr Esthus visited the Grapevine Botanic Garden for a hands-on demonstration of tree pruning. Click here to watch both programs (separate videos)
November 26, 2019 Vines Steve Huddleston, Senior Horticulturist at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens, consider vines to be "Di-vine" plants for vertical spaces, and discusses which ones to grow where in North Texas. Click here to watch the program
October 22, 2019 Foodscaping Daniel Cunningham, horticulturist for Texas A&M AgriLife's Water University program, will teach us how to incorporate edible plants into our home garden and landscape by taking advantage of their ornamental value. Click here to watch the program.
September 26, 2019 Sex In the Garden Janet Smith, Master Gardener and Master Naturalists presented an entertaining and educational talk describing what really goes on in our gardens: pollinators. You will never look at the garden in the same old way again. Click here to watch the program.
March 26, 2019 Beekeeping Our speaker, Chris Coy, started beekeeping in 2012 and is passionate about educating others about these insects who are a vital part of our food chain. Beekeeping opens a fascinating world of how honey bees work, organize their colonies, and affect a third of our food through pollination. Click here to watch the program.
February 26, 2019 Favorite Plants for North Texas Monarchs What do Monarch butterflies need as they travel through north Texas? Carol Clark, Conservation Specialist with Monarch Watch and longtime member of the Native Plant Society of Texas, introduces plants Monarch butterflies look for and use most as they travel through Texas. Click here to watch the program.
January 22, 2019 Experiencing the Monarch Migration, where we saw firsthand one of the most amazing natural phenomena – the migration of millions of butterflies from breeding grounds in the USA and Canada to overwintering sites in the mountains of south central Mexico. Click here to watch the program
November 27, 2018 Creating Public Gardens program presented by Matt Nicolette, of Studio Outside shows us the process they use to design public landscapes that provide the ultimate in respite and enjoyment. Click here to watch the program
September 25, 2018 Blooms & Beyond - Year Round Color program presented by Toni Moorehead, a Tarrant County Master Gardener and Landscape Professional. She writes a blog titled signaturegardens.blogspot.com. A list of the plants mentioned in the program is attached. Click here to watch the program