Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 2008

by Greg Reed

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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 2008

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Greg Reed

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Taken at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center June 2008.


Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

OVERVIEW

The University of Texas at Austin Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is the Botanic Garden of Texas. The Center promotes its mission to inspire the conservation of native plants through its internationally recognized sustainable gardens, education and outreach programs, and research projects.

Our Mission
Inspiring the conservation of native plants

The Wildflower Center was founded by Lady Bird Johnson and Helen Hayes as the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 and later renamed the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in 1997. It is a signature piece of Mrs. Johnson’s environmental legacy and is complementary to the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs on the university’s campus. Originally opened on land in East Austin, the Center moved to its current site on a transition zone between the Edwards Plateau and Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregions in 1995.

The Center has achieved great success since its founding, evolving from a private nonprofit research organization narrowly focused on Texas wildflowers to a major botanic garden and research unit of the university known for plant conservation, landscape restoration and sustainable approaches to landscape design. The Center is making a difference for the health of the planet through its research, demonstration projects, education programs and the development of national-scale programs to promote sustainable landscapes.

Our vision thus embodies the university’s charge to change the world and serve the state and nation through education and research programs.

Source: https://www.wildflower.org/about/overview

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May 10th, 2014

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