Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 16., 1 by LindaTX8

LindaTX8 wrote:
It really is a little heart-breaking seeing how few little wildflowers have come up in the "wild" in this really bad drought in southcentral Texas. But I found a bunch of these on the slope in front of my street. Bless their little rosettes, it's bluebonnets! I haven't watered down there at all. Also, I wanted to give this link to the online images (at the wildflower center site) of the Bexar Co. Regional Herbarium. The actual herbarium is now housed at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. Named for Harry T. Cliffe, who passed away December 26th. Amazingly, he and a few other loyal members of the S.A. chapter of NPSOT actually worked on this over many years. They taught themselves (with a little help) to use keys for ID's, understand some botanical terms, collect and mount plant specimens and did a professional job of putting together this herbarium, so I thought since it was named for him, it would be a great tribute to his memory to post this link:
http://www.wildflower.org/herbaria/results.php?county=Bexar


This message was edited Jan 1, 2009 4:43 PM