Landscapes and Pollinators Featured at SFA Gardens Lecture
SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 pm on February 13th in the Ina Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, 2900 Raguet Street, Nacogdoches. Andrea DeLong-Amaya, director of horticulture at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, will present “Beauty and the Bees: Understanding Pollinators and Designing Landscapes to Support Them.”
DeLong-Amaya oversees the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s gardens and nursery programs and is passionate about sharing the value of native plants in planned landscapes. She’s been a staff member since 1998 and has nearly 30 years of experience with native plants in horticulture, ecology and garden design.
She teaches classes in native plant horticulture and has contributed numerous gardening articles to publications such as Taunton’s Fine Gardening, Rodale’s Organic Gardening, American Public Gardens Association’s Public Garden, Neil Sperry’s Gardens and e-Gardens, Texas Gardener and Wildflower (the Center’s member magazine).
DeLong-Amaya has appeared numerous times on Central Texas Gardener, PBS’s long-running television program, and was a two-time guest on WNYC’s Science Friday. Jennifer Jewell featured Andrea’s work in her 2020 book, “The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants,” and interviewed DeLong-Amaya on the podcast Cultivating Place.

The Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series is held the second Thursday of each month and includes a plant raffle after the program. The lecture is free and open to the public, and donations to the lecture series fund are always appreciated.

Parking is available at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, 2900 Raguet Street or Raguet Elementary School, 2708 Raguet Street.

For more information, call (936)468-4129 or email sfagardens@sfasu.edu.