Event update: Please note that Zilker Botanical Garden will be charging regular admission. Conservancy members and Museums for All participants are free. Learn more here.
Visit the Zilker Botanical Garden for a Roots & Wings-themed day of pollinator- and tree-themed activities! This sitewide event will be a combined celebration of Monarch Appreciation Day and Arbor Day here at the Zilker Botanical Garden. Walk through a butterfly tent with live butterflies, tag a monarch butterfly to support scientific research, witness a butterfly release, visit our hummingbird garden to learn about hummingbird feeder care and planting native hummingbird attracting plants, learn about how to make a bat house or solitary bee habitat in your yard, dissect a dead log to learn about the value of trees in forests, and so much more!
Explore our garden and search for pollinator icons to learn about over 40 plants that sustain different stages of butterfly lifecycles, attract hummingbirds, or support bees!
We will have giveaways including transplants of pollinator plants, wildflower seed packets, and more!
Themed event tables and activities open at 9 am and will be closed at 1 pm.
Don’t miss these other special events going on during the celebration!
We will have a Kids Tree Climb by the City of Austin Urban Forestry staff from 9 am to 2 pm.
Professor Pricklethorn joins our Festival this year all the way from Canada! Don’t miss his reading of the Arbor Day and Monarch Appreciation Day proclamation on the Oak Grove Stage at 9:15 am. He will also be offering his Trees Please! presentation on the Oak Grove Stage at 10:30 am.
PLUS! Special performances by Melissa Gail Klein and the Morning Dew who are playing on the Oak Grove Stage at 9:45 am and 12 pm.
AND! Come hear local children's book author Tania DeGregorio read her book Skydancer for a special story time at the Oak Grove Stage from 11:30 am to 11:55 am.