Pollinator Festival And Plant Sale A Mercer Botanic This Saturday

HUMBLE, TX — Enjoy a day of educational presentations, games, and shopping during the Pollinator Festival and Fall Plant Sale at Mercer Botanic Gardens Saturday, Oct. 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Celebrating pollinators of all varieties, the festival includes free, hourly presentations beginning at 10:15 a.m. on the importance of monarch conservation, honeybees, East Texas nectar plants, and more. Decorative garden trinkets, pollinator host plants, as well as Texas native plants, such as coneflowers, longhorn milkweed, and passion vine, will be available for purchase with proceeds benefitting Mercer Botanic Gardens.

Visitors can participate in Exploration Stations hosted by groups such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Wildlife Federation (NWF), vote for the best pollinator-themed scarecrow display, and peruse books at the Baldwin Boettcher Branch Library booth.

“The festival is a celebration of pollinators,” said Mercer Botanic Gardens Education Director Jennifer Garrison. “Festival visitors will have fun playing games, shopping for plants, listening to presentations, and so much more. But most of all, visitors will leave the festival with a better understanding of pollinator conservation and how to use nectar and native host plants to create a habitat for local and migratory pollinators.”

With leadership from Commissioner R. Jack Cagle, Mercer Botanic Gardens is a Harris County Precinct 4 Parks facility located one mile north of FM 1960 at 22306 Aldine Westfield Road in Humble, 77338. For more information, contact Mercer at 713-274-4160 or visit www.hcp4.net/community/parks/mercer.

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