Texas Gardening: Gardening with Native plants and Wild flowers of Texas., 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
This is a beautiful native tree, Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia ) It is not very common around here, but it really should be. They have more of them in East Texas. When I first saw a picture of this tree I fell in love with it and I looked at different nurseries with no luck. But one day I went to Veterans Park, this is a place that has a xeriscape and native plant garden here in Arlington, that is maintained by the Arlington Organic Gardening club. Well I found one of them in bloom there, and I was awe'struck because it was so beautiful. While I was there looking at it, an older gentleman came by and asked if I new what it was. I did tell him the name and he said he had never seen anything like it, at which point I told him that I had wanted one for a long time and had not been able to find it. After he left something told me to go to the nursery and check again and what do you know, they had one, only one, I was so excited I was jumping up and down, and I told the lady that God had sent me there that day. I said I wanted it, but when we looked for the price it didn't have a price tag, so she said, " well, let us go and see how much God wants for it" As it turned out it was only $30.00 so I was very happy.
Here is a picture of the seed, ( buckeyes ) with one planted.