Ready to create a garden that’s both beautiful and beneficial? Dive into a day of inspiration and practical tips at the Oklahoma Native Plant Network (ONPN) Spring Native Plant Festival. Learn about native plants and the wildlife that depend on them at this free event.

ONPN’s Spring Native Plant Festival features 6 native plant vendors, info booths from regional and statewide non-profits, and free educational speakers. Attendees will find affordable varieties of Oklahoma-native plants, in the forms of blooming perennials, grasses, shrubs and trees.

The ONPN has organized free educational talks and Q+ A sessions for the event,featuring:

11:30 – 12:30- Lauren Kennedy (native plant landscaper) Why Native? The importance of gardening with native plants.

12:45 – 1:45 – Georgia Riggs (wildlife biologist) – Habitat Creation and Bird Glass Collisions

2:00 – 3:00 – David Redhage – (president of the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture) – Native plants of SE Oklahoma

The ONPN was formed to further educate the public about the value of native plants in the environment and encourage new and established plant growers to increase their production of native plants to meet the overwhelming demand for native plants in private and public spaces.

Cost: Free