The Pickup's Culture coverage is supported by Brut Hotel, featuring a rooftop VIP after party for Tulsa Irish Fest on March 14.
After a long, weird winter, we’re so ready for spring. Tornado season be damned: how much more unpredictable can things get, really? Spring is a time for enjoying the fruits of patience, preparation, and all that work you’ve been doing on yourself while in hibernation mode. Here’s our guide to Spring Break hot spots, fresh performing arts events, spring-coded bites and bevs, and all the daffodils you can handle.
Get Your Garden Started
- Across the Prairie: this gem of a spot at 15th and Harvard carries native plants, local art, and plenty of educational resources. From Bigtop Lovegrass (Eragrostis hirsuta) to Shining Bluestar (Amsonia illustris), you’ll find your new favorite backyard friend here.
- OSU Master Gardeners Extension is the expert resource you didn’t know you needed, with soil test kits, composting classes, workshops, and practical talks by master gardeners from across the state.
- Speaking of, Tulsa Master Gardeners holds its Annual Plant Sale at EXPO Square, through March 16; plant pickup is April 16.
- Springfest at the Tulsa Garden Center and Native Plant Weekend at Philbrook are both happening April 10-11. Go to one on one day and the other on the other; come home with two carloads full of new plant friends.
Let Somebody Else Handle The Flowers
- Anthousai: This local flower-power collective opens its new space in a renovated 1930s Maple Ridge house with a Spring Equinox Party on March 28.
- Art in Bloom, Philbrook’s annual floral extravaganza (April 3-5), is a museum-wide experience that features stunning structures made by local floral designers, inspired by the architecture and art of Philbrook.
- Tulsa Botanic BLOOMS at Tulsa Botanic Garden hard-launches spring with 46,400 daffodils on one hillside alone, and even more tulips spread throughout the garden.
- More of an indoor guy? Tyler Thrasher’s Moonbeam Conservatory is air conditioned, kid-friendly, and full of thousands of handmade glowing floral creations.
Spring Eats & Drinks