How cold did it get down in Texas ???
26° last Night
Same here,Amarillo
42 F here, but the wind during the day was 100 mph !!
Everything looks good !
A lot of broken leaves flying around from trees and plant ... but that's it !
It is sunny now and the "summer" will start real soon.
Good luck !
Dr. Thor--really pretty!
We got to 37º in Fort Worth. Everything made it through fine.
32 for about an hour. Glad I covered
Night before last was 31 degrees in Belton...last night 36 degrees...everything holding...so far.
It was below freezing Tues and Wed morning. A couple of my friends lost their veggie plants...
It was in the mid-30's just northeast of Austin in Hutto Monday night. Tuesday night was about 40 degrees. Tomatoes protected Monday night/Tuesday morning but were out Tuesday night/Wednesday morning without problem.
David R
That's weird bc the cold front made it in one day later then expected. They had said Mon and Tues AM were going to be cold but then it turned out being Tuesday and Wed. AM. The thermometer in the truck said "ice".
Yikes.
Lisa,
I think we are saying the same thing. To me, Tuesday morning is "Monday night" and Tuesday night includes Wednesday morning. It was a little colder than I thought Wednesday morning. When I went back to WeatherUnderground.com for the station closest to my house the low temp Wednesday morning at 6:00 am (Tuesday night) was briefly 37 degrees. It was 39 at 5:30 and back up to 39 by 6:30. Tuesday morning the low was 35 degrees for at least an hour, starting around 6:30 am.
David
We are saying the same thing. Doesn't take much to throw me. Lol
~~Grumblin~~
Its STILL cold here !
I know Im about to get a bunch of rotten tomatoes thrown at me but I must have used a year's worth of luck this past week. My AC went out last Saturday. It was 80*. The next day was 90* but on Monday the high was 75 and Tues it was 65 and it went back up to 75 and stayed there until today when the AC company could come and replace the unit.
After the water pipes this winter you deserve a little good luck.
We are far enough south, all it did was get GORGEOUS. Thank you mother nature. But why aren't my flowers in bloom yet except for natives....
I'll take natives! DH and I walked through our new apartment's back lot to come through to the srtrip mall on the other side. Lots of murdered crepes trying to recover, but there are beautiful flowers hidden in the lawns. I don't know what they're native, but they sure are cute. Are the magentas oxalis again?
magentas? winecups?
I don't know what winecups are. There were lot of little magenta flowers in the lawn that we saw on the way
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/695/ ??
-that link is to winecups, only other off the top of my head would be Moss Rose, or maybe a portulaca? a rose color would be rose mallow, kissin kin to winecups, but a paler relation?
No, not portulaca, I know what that looks like. It is growing where it says "keep off the grass" but I think it might be winecups. I'll maybe go back and try to take another photo. There was also a tiny bit of something blue, like a cobalt blue, that I would have said was annual lobelia except it was where it had to be self-sown; nobody would plant such a tiny splash on purpose. But with itty bitty tiny flowers, much smaller than the dark magenta pink, I've never heard of winecups before but the PF picture looks like what we saw.
Oh gosh, I wrote this hours ago and never pushed SEND! :-/
Before we moved from Euless, on one of our walks we saw something with similar crepey or silky flowers, but very pale pink or white. I think somebody said they were naturalized oxalis, which would be great because they can live in MA too.
I was thinking purslane and wrote portulaca.Sorry. There are a ton of very tiny flowers no more than 1/4" across down in the grasses - i have NO idea what they are. A sash of blue is probably a blue eyed grass, or bluets - thats all they do is make little clumps. a taller grass can be spiderworts, or dayflowers- when mowed they bloom shorter. I would LOVE pix! Jo can step in an keep me straight then...
I'll see what I can do today. Before it gets hot.
Umm similar to winecups, but pale piinks are rose mallows
Hmmm nothin where I am but wild oats, will stop take pic of the wild rose mallows if I spot them for you. Our DG files are all ramped up ones
You mean bred to be taller, shorter, smarter, grow faster or slower or be a different color? Couldn't go exploring today....spent the day at home fighting my computer!
Schools are letting out all the kids are on the computers- instead. of in school. if you give water and fertilizer to a wild Texas flower, U R apt to create a monster that is trying to reseed the whole world. and the colors get real intense. A rose Mallow to me ( or pink buttercup) are pastels
TWC gave me the address of a speed test site (twc.com/speedtest) and I was trying to test the speed and it timed me out! Grrrrrrrrr.
Reseeding the whole world doesn't seem so bad, I mean not the places with gardens and yards but the places with deserts and dust.
♫ Its the time of the season ♫ ♫
for sysyrinchium, Blue eyed grass, a wildflower,
and the cre[pey pale pink to whites on are primrose,
oenothera Mexicana, another seasonal wildflower.
I cant think of another magenta except the winecups.
All of the above are wildfowers, and grow hiding in the
grass along with dandelions, and when they finish
blooming, mowing season then starts.
Carrie will you be going to the Roundup May 18 ?
Blue eyed grass is bluets. Baja- normally you come up with names that can be found, whats up? And primrose arent whats bloomin thru the wild lots.
hot and muggy here (88 today) but finally got rain yesterday. almost 2 inches
BB, I'm not sure yet. I am aware of the date and it's on my calendar. But DH worked something like 25 days straight (including moving our stuff) so he needs a rest badly. This morning he was up from 3-5 am working (remotely) on another work problem! I hope we'll be able to go to .... Mexico or St. Maartin or somewhere he CAN'T work. If we're in town, I'm pretty sure we'll come.
I vote for magenta wine cups. Also agree that pale pinks are prob. primroses. No, wait. Primroses can also be pale yellow. Hmmm.
Carrie, I don't know how you could choose Mexico or St. Maarten / St. Martin over Arlington. Of course, if you choose St. M, you'll have to decide whether to stay on the Dutch side or the French side. I think it's the French side that allows gambling and other such stuff. At least that was the case in the early 70s when I lived in the West Indies. Wild living! Woo hoo!
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bluets and blue eyed grass are two different plants! look it up.
I cant look these up, not at home. Books arent with me- dont have time to stop n pee much less research. Summer vacations and schoools letting out and holiday time for others does that to some of our jobs- like Carries' DH. Also tends to increase my stm loss.
Sorry guys. i fell asleep on ya, chuckl. Carrie? I have been having fits with an unknown browser trying to take over when I open DG, or click on a thread- is that one of the puters problems you are having? I havent had time to tell my laptop n smartphone to turn the ads off and it keeps drainin my batts. Am headin back south rigght now- left Eau Claire this noon an should be south of Atlanta Sat pm. I will have a tiny bit of time to grab a few shots of southern wildflowers and we'll get some GOOD names for all of em, chuckl. zzzz time hittin again.
Are Winecups and Tall poppy mallow the same thing? Plains poppy mallow has white or pink flowers. My Wildseed Farms Catalog has Winecups and Tall Poppy Mallow as two different plants.
I know both of those names have been used for winecups.