These are a few of our favorite organizations and websites with good reference information. To recommend another to add, please use the “Contact Us” link .

Websites – For Plants and Design

 

Operation NICE (Natives Improve and Conserve Environments) http://www.npsot.org/wp/resources/nice/                                 For the locally featured plant of the season: http://www.npsot.org/TrinityForks/ 

Plant Lists for Various Garden Types: https://www.www.npsot.org/TrinityForks/TrinityForksWeb/plants.html

National Wildlife Federation, Certified Wildlife Habitat Program: https://www.nwf.org/Home/Garden-For-Wildlife.

Texas Wildscapes: A Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/wildlife_diversity/wildscapes/

Grow Green http://www.growgreen.org

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Explore Plants database: http://www.wildflower.org/explore/ 

Texas Invasives, www.texasinvasives.org

Texas Native Trees, Benny Simpson’s: https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/ornamentals/natives/tamuhort.html

Texas SmartScape: http://www.txsmartscape.com/

Texas Tree Planting Guide: http://texastreeplanting.tamu.edu/index.html

City of Irving Native Plant Guide: http://cityofirving.org/documentcenter/view/948

Web Soil Survey. National Resource Conservation Survey: http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/

iNaturalist: www.inaturalist.org 

Organizations

Audubon Society http://www.audubon.org/ 

   Trinity River Audubon Center https://trinityriver.audubon.org/

   Cedar Ridge Preserve  https://audubondallas.org/cedar-ridge-preserve/

Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas http://www.monarchjointventure.org 

Botanical Research Institute of Texas http://www.brit.org/

Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center http://www.clearcreekdenton.com/  

Connemara  https://connemaraconservancy.org/

Fort Worth Botanic Garden http://www.fwbg.org 

Fort Worth Nature Center http://www.fwnaturecenter.org/

Fossil Rim Wildlife Center http://www.fossilrim.org 

Heard Natural Science Museum http://www.heardmuseum.org/

Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area https://www.llela.org/

Texas Master Gardener Association http://mastergardener.tamu.edu/ 

   Collin County Master Gardener Association  https://ccmgatx.org/          

   Dallas County Master Gardener Association https://dallascountymastergardeners.org/

   Denton County Master Gardener Association dcmga.com

   Tarrant County Master Gardener Association https://tarrantmg.org/

Master Naturalists http://txmn.org/

MonarchWatch https://monarchwatch.org/

Native Plant Society of Texas http://www.npsot.org/
Collin County  https://www.npsot.org/wp/collincounty/Dallas  https://www.npsot.org/wp/dallas/
North Central (Fort Worth)  https://www.txnativeplants.org/
Trinity Forks (Denton Area)  https://www.npsot.org/wp/trinityforks/

NPAT/Native Prairies Association of Texas www.texasprairie.org 

River Legacy Living Science Center http://www.riverlegacy.org/ 

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension http://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/ 

Texas Discovery Garden  https://txdg.org/