Our FIRST flower photo of the spring season. Taken by Kaitlin Bacon, Children's Garden Manager. The bright yellow daffodil is always the sign for more color to come! We're expecting 42,000 spring bulbs to pop up in the Gardens very soon.
March in the Gardens
Every Wednesday, 10am
Visitor Center Lobby, Crystal Bridge
FREE
Best for ages 2 to 5
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Spring Break
March 17, 18, 19, 10am – Noon
Children’s Garden Porch
$3 per child
Available for viewing March 13 – April 13, 2021
Member $15; Nonmember $30

Oklahoma Gardening School is an annual event that showcases local and national experts in gardening, plant selection and garden design for the home gardener, professional horticulturist, garden designer, and landscape architect. This year’s virtual symposium, Gifts of the Garden, will feature a quality slate of inspirational speakers to show us ways that gardens can become places of purpose and resiliency, offering us irreplaceable gifts in return for our time and attention. Registrants will hear from experts who will inspire, surprise, and engage us with their varied experiences.
Tuesdays 6pm & Saturdays 9am
Instructors provided by YMCA
Recommended for ages 16 & up
Masks & social distancing required
Lower Level, Crystal Bridge Conservatory

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Classes SOLD OUT through March
We are waiting to announce April registration in hopes that we can return to practicing outside!

Presented by Fowler Automotive
Saturday, March 27, 10-11am
Last Saturday of Every Month
FREE - registration required
Geared towards adults, strollers and leashed dogs are always welcome

March 27 Walk is sold out!
We are now taking reservations for the April 24 walk

Saturday, March 20, 2-4pm
The Garden Classroom and Crystal Bridge Conservatory
Member $30; Nonmember $35
Doug Hoke, Director of Photography, The Oklahoman
Register by Tuesday, March 16
ART EXHIBIT
Carl Shortt Jr Photography
March 5 – April 21, 2021
Visitor Center, Crystal Bridge Conservatory
FREE to see during regular hours
Coming up!
Saturday, May 8, 9am-4pm

The annual OKC Flower and Garden Festival returns to Myriad Botanical Gardens Saturday, May 8. This fun-filled event includes local vendors nestled in on the west side of the Gardens next to Mo’s Carousel and the Children’s Garden. The annual festival features an abundance of plants and more sure to brighten up anyone’s home. Visitors will find Oklahoma-grown herbs, perennials, annuals, native plants, culinary herbs, vegetable plants, flowers, produce, pottery, jewelry, wineries, succulents, ornamental grasses, milkweed, pollinator plants, wildlife habitat, and more.

Want to be a vendor? Register your business here.

SOCIAL DISTANCING AND MASKS ARE REQUIRED. Thank you!
Presented by OU Health

Wednesday, May 26, 8:30pm
Meet at the Bandshell on the Devon Lawn
Suggested $5 per person donation
Route announced that night at the meetup by race coordinator Steve Schlegel



Mask Up Inside the Crystal Bridge Conservatory and Visitor Lobby
MASK MANDATE EXTENDED
Oklahoma City Council voted on Tuesday to extend the City’s mask ordinance in indoor public places until April 30, 2021. Public health officials say face coverings are key to slowing the spread of COVID-19. Cases are growing at a slower rate in cities in Oklahoma with mask mandates when compared to cities without them, according to public health data.

Find more information at okc.gov.
MARCH GARDENING TIPS

Flowers & Vegetables

  • Cultivate annual flower and vegetable planting beds to destroy winter weeds.
  • Apply mulch to control weeds in beds. Landscape fabric barrier can reduce the amount of mulch but can dry out and prevent water penetration. Thus, organic litter makes the best mulch.
  • Prune roses just before growth starts and begin a regular disease spray program as the foliage appears on susceptible varieties. 
  • Avoid excessive walking and working in the garden when foliage and soils are wet.
  • Start warm-season vegetable transplants indoors.
  • Divide and replant overcrowded, summer and fall blooming perennials. Mow or cut back old liriope and other ornamental grasses before new growth begins.
  • Your cool-season vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, carrot, lettuce, onion, peas, spinach, turnips etc. should be planted by the middle of March.
  • Watch for cutworms that girdle newly planted vegetables during the first few weeks of establishment. Cabbage looper and cabbageworm insects should be monitored and controlled in the garden. 

Thank you!
Myriad Gardens Foundation wishes to thank our sustaining partners, 
leaders in providing major ongoing annual support: 

The Chickasaw Nation
Continental Resources
Devon Energy Corporation
Gardner Tanenbaum Holdings
Heartland Payment Systems
Inasmuch Foundation
LaDonna and Herman Meinders
Jean and David McLaughlin
Robert H. Meinders 
Newmark Grubb Levy Strange Beffort
OGE Energy Corp.
Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust 
The City of Oklahoma City 
Avis Scaramucci