aww..thanks kip... :)
Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 14.
I want to thank the individuals who have been been adding their wonderful photos as well as information to the Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers Picture Directory. When I am searchinig for a native plant's ID, I go here first to see if it is listed. It is much easier to find a plant by the color of its bloom or category. I use Josephine's PlantFiles Native Plants of Texas Search Engine all of the time as I am hunting for a native plant's ID. If I have seen a plant that I need to find out which species it is, I can go down the names and use the USDA or Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center sites to determine which ones grow in my area. This really assists with narrowing IDs down making the final arrival at an ID less time consuming. Some plants whose photos appear here in the Gardening with Texas Native Plants and Wildflowers Forum have no photos in the PlantFiles. Our input into these projects is invaluable. The photos and any information you input can be of great assistance especially for those individuals who are doing research. If you do not have time to research the plant, just the title line, a brief sentene or 2 and the photo can be a great help. I have not had much time to participate in this forum due to the time I have been spending attempting to add photos of and information about native plants to the to the PlantFiles, the Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers Picture Directory and Josephine's PlantFiles Native Plants of Texas Search Engine. Any assistance is greatly appreciated and will strengthen the PlantFiles and the other projects. My wonderful finds this spring if you do not follow the additions to the Native Plants & Wildflowers Picture Directory:
Very rare growing natively (not cultivated hybrid) pink bluebonnet:
Oops, I forgot to add the link to Josephine's search engine ... try it if you haven't already, you'll like it.
http://www.texasstar.org/search/
Uncommon growing natively white bluebonnet:
Thank you Hazel, you are doing a great job and adding a lot of valuable information.
And thank you for telling them about the search engine.
We are adding Endangered Plants, Evergreen plants, and Shade tolerant plants.
That should help a lot with plant selection.
Josephine.
Thank YOU, Josephine for all of your work and sharing nature.
Oh...I have one of those pink bluebonnets also! I think for some reason there's more occurring this year. The storms have been rolling through...high winds, some small hail, haven't yet checked my plants, but hopefully there's no damage. We needed the rain. 1.7 inches here so far.
I am trying tp tie up my young vines that were knocked to the ground., We didn't have any hail, just hard pounding rain. Lots of containers were blown over. I never complain about rain (unlees it floods and hurts people and damages propertyI ... just wish it would be spaced out all summer.
No rain here yet, but they are predicting rain all week, so we are supposed to get our lakes all filled up, What a blessing!!!
We didn't have much to speak of today, but now that night has come it is moving in. A long slow soaking rain hopefully!
We went to visit a prairie at Tandy Hills preserve yesterday and got some nice pictures.
Here is Dakota Mock Vervain, Glandularia bipinnatifida
And a whole clump of it, they are so pretty. The weather was perfect too.
Phew..I went out hiking at Gov't Canyon again yesterday...and lo and behold..the heavens opened up! What a storm.... I ran as fast as my legs could take me back to the headquarters..lol
Josephine, those are growing all over here as well....so pretty.... :)
Melanie
That was quite a storm Melanie, I am glad you made home safely.
Josephine.
Here is another common but very pretty one;
Texas Dandelion, Pyrrhopappus multicaulis, these look so sweet in a prairie.
Off Subject,
OK....Who was it that made the stuff peppers at the RU !!!
I NEED the recipe............PLEASE !!!!!!
I want MORE !!!!!!!!
I don't know kip, it may have been Marylyn.
This is why I like Milkweeds....aren't these striking?
Yes Lee, they are beautiful, we are getting some too, so exciting!!!
Glad you guys are getting them too! Actually, the ones that ate what seemed like a ton of my milkweed foliage are all butterflies now...except for 2 chrysalises that are left. Here's one I released within the last week....
Strange thing......last year I didn't have a single one on this large milkweed.....this year there's 14 that I found yesterday! Glad to have them settle in! Lookin' forward to when they flutter away!
PS: would someone please make a new Thread 15 for those of us on dial-up? It takes a couple of minutes just to be able to start reading......many thanks!
Yes I will later today.
lol Lee....I was thinking the same thing. We pokey dial-up folks are sufferin'....lol :)
Dear Friends, the new thread has been started, let us continue having fun.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/721774/
Josephine.