Apply for Monarch Garden Grants!

Forward to/share this post with your local school district, educational community and nature centers! For details, read the Society’s full announcement and click on the grant application.

If needed, the NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter has resources to help with the application (examples include plant lists and sources). Contact the chapter at [email protected] for help.


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Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas Grant Applications Now Open

Deadline to Apply: February 10, 2025

You can help save the Monarchs!

As their number declines and the species approaches threatened status, you can help save our iconic Monarch Butterfly. Plant pollinator gardens with native plants to provide the essential nectar that will fuel their up to 3,000 mile fall migration. Include native milkweeds to support the multi-generational spring migration.

Our Bring Back the Monarch to Texas (BBMT) garden grants can help with your efforts. Applications are now open for 2025 garden grants. 

The BBMT program awards grants up to $600 to nature centers, schools, educational groups and others to help fund development of Monarch demonstration gardens or Monarch Waystations using native plants on public sites in Texas. The purpose of this program is to educate members, applicants, and the public about Monarch conservation and native plants, and to encourage restoration of Monarch habitats throughout the Texas migration flyway.

The application process must be completed by February 10th, 2025, and awardees will be announced at the beginning of March. 


Grants are funded by Native Plant Society of Texas, Monarch Watch and by individual and corporate donations to the BBMT program. In 2025, additional funds through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation will be used to underwrite some of the garden grants. The Native Plant Society of Texas is grateful for everyone helping provide the funds to maintain our program.

In 2024, BBMT awarded 51 grants for a total of $29,700, delivered educational talks, helped tag Monarch butterflies with Monarch Watch, and distributed milkweed plants!

Questions – [email protected]

Carol Clark, BBMT Committee Chair
Native Plant Society of Texas

Online Chapter Meeting August 13: “Native Plants Star in Monarch Waystations & BBMT” with Carol Clark

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Join NPSOT-Wilco’s online chapter meeting on Thursday, August 13, 2020, at 7:00 pm, when guest speaker Carol Clark will present “Native Plants Star in Monarch Waystations and the BBMT (Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas) Plays a Part.”  You must register in advance to attend the meeting.  Details are provided later in this post.

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Carol’s presentation includes an explanation of NPSOT’s Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas committee and its garden grant program, and illuminates some of the highlights and pitfalls of past grant applications. We’ll also learn how Monarchs depend on native plants for their breeding and migration success, why planting for Monarchs is urgent, and the key features of a good Monarch waystation. Then, we’ll have a look at beautiful Texas natives you can plant to provide for Monarchs.

Carol Clark is an amateur botany enthusiast, a Texas Master Naturalist, longtime member of the Native Plant Society of Texas, and a Conservation Specialist with Monarch Watch. She’s currently chairing NPSOT’s Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas committee. She also co-administers the Texas Native Bee Co-op Facebook page. She and her husband own and operate Clark Haven Farm, a wildlife preserve and custom wildflower seed business in Cooke County. Carol grew up with a nature photographer father and wildlife artist brother, and has spent much of her life looking around in the great outdoors. Her favorite things to do are leading discovery walks in local natural areas, and finding and photographing interesting plants and insects.

How to attend

  • You must register in advance to attend the online meeting.
  • After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar on the day of the meeting.

Please register for our Monthly Chapter Meeting: Native Plants Star in Monarch Waystations and the BBMT Plays a Part, August 13,  2020 7:00 PM CDT at the following link:

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NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public. In this time of public health risk, our in-person meetings and field trips are canceled until further notice.

Check our blog announcements, calendar and Facebook for developing plans for virtual meetings and virtual field trips.

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