Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers Picture Directory, 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Due to adopting a new pet that needed constant training and supervision for a year and now having been given a young bird that needs constant training and various health problems of my family and myself, I have not been able to search for, photograph and gather information about our Texas native plants for quite some time. Nor have I been able to work in my garden. I visited the Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers Picture Directory this morning thinking that with all of the rain and the abundance of wildflowers this year that there would be lots of new entries here. All categories except one categories have not been added to since 2007, 2008 and the fall of 2009. I was saddened that this project has few updated material. Thank you debnes_dfw_tx and Allwild for posting to the Yellow Bloom section.this spring. This is a worthy project and can be very useful. Please help with posting photos and information here. Maybe one day soon I will be able to do so again.

For those who know me, I am doing better now as evidenced by the sequential photos that follow. I lost over 35 pounds and my muscles deteriorated in a short period of time due to undiagnosed diabetes. There are still other problems as well. I am posting this so anyone else who might have sudden, unplanned weight loss and/or muscle shrinking will seek medical help to determine if they are diabetic. I never thought that diabetes could do this even though my husband is a diabetic. :

Photo of myself in early May after being diagnosed with diabetes after severe weight loss at the beginning of March and in May having the glucose levels well under control with changing my diet and taking medication: