White Victoria sage, I think. Growing in my wildflower bed.
Let's see your Natives and Wildflowers
Goats Rue.
Close-up of goat's rue bloom.
Butterfly on Gailardia.
I know I have shown Mexican hat flower, but this was sooo.. pretty.
Moth on coneflower.
Red Coreopsis?
I love Mexican Hats too Charlene, they are so varied and all are beautiful.
Now about Goat's Rue, I have wanted that forever, and the seeds never worked for me, and i never could get a plant, could you possibly pot one for me? I would be eternally grateful and promise you whatever I have that i can share, please?
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=tevi
The butterfly is a Variegated Frittilary, one of my favorites
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1672
Josephine.
Charlene, the red one is Gaillardia, the come in many forms, probably this one; Gaillardia amblyodon
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=GAAM
Rain the last several days and the rain lilies are up. This is Habranthus tubispathus or Copper lily, from seed collected in Argentina. It looks identical to our native Habranthus tubispathus var. texana.
That is lovely Agaveguy.
Some Texans have escaped....to Florida>
Their cousins are here too>
Isn't it great that most plants have a very wide range?
Very lovely Dale.
There's a few Floridians in Texas, too. A couple of Zamia integrifolia are lurking in my garden.
Black-eyed Susan on the side of the road.
I believe this is beauty berry (which I grew up calling Spanish Mulberry) about to bloom.
Pencil Flower ?
I planted some gaillardia a couple of years ago and it promptly died. I'm not sure what I did to offend it -- probably planted when it was too hot, but it's so pretty I'll have to try again.
Josephine, I potted some goat's rue for you today.
Blue, when I plant my wildflowers, I usually cut them back to a few inches tall and keep them in the shade with just a little sunlight for a while. This works sometimes.
I potted some more clasping coneflowers today also. I have not had a lot of luck with them so far. Out of about a dozen I potted up earlier only two made it. (Sorry Josephine, I know I gave you one at the ru, and it probably bit the dust too!)
I potted some more monarda citradora horsemint. I also potted one that I will have to get identified later. I already cut the blooms off and they don't look too hot now, so I will have to wait.
Oh Charlene, that is so sweet of you, I hope it makes it, I have wanted it for a long time.
I will check around and see what I can offer you.
The clasping Coneflowers are annual, so it might be easier to collect some seed for next year.
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=DRAM
Yes, I thought of that and I am saving some seeds for planting this fall also.
You know the goat's rue was growing at the end of the first path we walked through when you were here. I showed it to everyone, you should have dug some to take with you. I would not have minded it at all. I have found it one other place also. When I dig it, I never take it all, I just divide it and it keeps on making more. So, if this one doesn't make it, I'll get another one later. I am sure the one in my flower bed is ready to divide also if needed.
Charlene
Charlene, have you tried winter sowing your wildflowers? I bet if you did, you'd have some really good luck! I'm going to do that with a few this year, but I'll probably sow them late Dec/early Jan.
More beautiful wildflowers everyone!!
I planted seeds too late this year, around February and nothing. I think I will winter sow directly too. Most wildflowers seem to need stratification to grow around here.
There are sever white flower growing around that are similar but not the same....I'm getting confused again! This one has the fine sprawling foliage.
It looks like it could be Bluets;
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=STNIN
or Prairie Bishop;
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=BIAM2
can you take a close up of the flower?
Hi Josephine thank you for helping me with your expertise!
Here's that same flower, a little closer look also showing what the foliage looks like.
Definitely Prairie Bishop, and very pretty too.
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=BIAM2
Josephine.
This Pigeonberry is so happy with the rain, it 's making pretty little berries and growing up.
Red Yucca flowers...makes the hummingbirds happy!
Red Yucca flowers are so pretty!!
Thank you Josephine :o)
Here is some pretty pink phlox. This phlox blooms all around my area in different shades of pink, lavendar, and white. The red phlox from earlier that I posted was found elsewhere and I have never found anymore of the red anywhere.
The phlox that I dug and rescued from the ditches last year are blooming all over my flower beds and in my yard. I absolutely love it.
Charlene
Here is one little area of my flower beds with mostly wildflowers in them. The petunias are were found at an old homestead that my BIL owned and allowed us to go get flowers from. They return faithfully and get tall and leggy, so they blend in very nicely with the natives.
Charlene
Today, I dug some monarda fistula. It was growing in a neighbor's pasture. I should have taken photos of them growing. I did photograph the flower though. I tried some of these last year, but they didn't make it. I am hoping they make it this year for me. I am giving the TLC that sometimes works for me.
Charlene
I believe that Josephine may have been the one to give this one to me. I just can't remember it's name.
Charlene
Is the above flower tahoka daisy? That keeps popping into my thoughts.
I know Josephine will know for sure.
Charlene, those are lovely! And I like that native cottage garden look you've got going there! I dug up a phlox plant (it's a Phlox Roemeriana or Golden-Eye Phlox) today from an area in town which is fast becoming a dumping ground for trash. I love them and I keep trying, but those annuals like a different soil than I have, so they don't come up the next year even if the plants survive being dug up and then bloom for a while. Here's a pic from another year, so this isn't the one I dug up today.
This is peter's purple bee balm, which i believe is supposed to be a hybrid that occurred naturally in san antonio between fistulosa and bartlettii (spelling?). It's funny, I never noticed bee balm anywhere until I got some and now I'm seeing it wild all over my parent's road. Could I collect seed from it even though it's a hybrid since it supposed to be a naturally occurring one?
Charlene, if I gave that aster to you it would be Purple Fall Aster, Symphyotrichum oblongifolium, and that is quite a mouth full, they are supposed to bloom in the fall, but some of them are blooming now.
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=SYOB
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Blueflower, I think that even natural hybrids don't make seed, but not sure, it is surely worth trying.
Josephine.
well i'll give it a go. if not, it makes so many new ones i don't think it will matter lol.
this is a flower that came up in my yard. at first i thought it was maybe rock rose but then i saw the carolina frostweed. thoughts?
another view. i don't know if this was here last year, but this year our mower broke right off so we didn't mow for a long time this spring and i noticed these.
