Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers - Part 2, 1 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
koncreteblond,

I have a feeling some of problem could be with the mowing crew. Around here, the mowers mow around patches of wildflowers. Now I know this is not something one would deliberately plant in their garden, but it has a beauty of its own and it definitely gets your attention. It's like an artichoke on steroids. The Yellow Thistle, Cirsium horridulum, can also be pink or dark purple. These things are growing in one of our pastures and they have to go, but first I had to take a picture. I have photos of the yellow flower (first to open) and buds of the pink. This a bud from the pink flowered thistle.