🌸🐝 Buzz & Bloom Exchange 🐝🌸
DFW Garden Beauties is celebrating fall with a garden picnic!
🍂 Did you know? October is the perfect month to plant wildflowers in DFW so they bloom beautifully in spring. Let’s get a head start together!
Here’s what’s buzzing at our event:
🌱 Wildflower Seed & Bulb Swap – bring some, take some, and plant for pollinators!
🐝 Pollinator Bingo – fun & prizes while learning about Texas bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds
🥪 Picnic Style/Picnic Theme – bring your blanket and favorite snacks or food
📍 Grapevine Botanical Gardens
📅 Saturday, October 11th
💐 Bring your blooms, your seeds, and your picnic basket – let’s grow, learn, and laugh together!
Here’s a list of flowers and bulbs to plant in DFW for October and November:
🌼 Wildflowers to Direct Sow (October–November, DFW)
• Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) – iconic Texas spring bloomer
• Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) – long-blooming, pollinator favorite
• Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) – hardy and cheerful
• Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera) – unique cone-shaped blooms
• Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) – attracts butterflies & bees
• Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria & lanceolata) – yellow, drought-tolerant
• Texas Paintbrush (Castilleja indivisa) – pairs beautifully with bluebonnets
• Drummond Phlox (Phlox drummondii) – bright spring color
• Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa) – soft pink, spreads easily
• Verbena (Glandularia bipinnatifida) – purple groundcover
🌸 Cool-Season Flowers to Sow or Plant
• Sweet Pea – sow seeds now for fragrant spring blooms
• Larkspur – loves cool-season sowing, tall spring spikes
• Snapdragon – can be direct seeded or transplanted
• Pansies & Violas – best as transplants but can self-seed
• Calendula – hardy annual, edible petals, cold-tolerant
• Nigella (Love-in-a-Mist) – feathery foliage, unique seed pods
🌷 Fall-Planted Bulbs (for Spring Blooming)
(Plant in Oct–Nov once soil cools to ~55°F)
• Daffodils (Narcissus) – naturalize well in Texas, return yearly
• Tulips – pre-chill bulbs 6–8 weeks before planting (Nov–Dec best)
• Hyacinths – also need pre-chilling; very fragrant
• Alliums (Ornamental Onions) – globe-like purple flowers, pollinator-friendly
• Dutch Irises – easy, reliable spring bloomers
• Crocus – early spring color
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