This one has been through the heat and bloomed… many bluebonnet seeds germinated and growing already.

I'm adding more seeds, too.
Are you sowing seeds?

I am so dry I have not wanted to plant anything. I am happy with the few plants that are offering up blooms here.

How interesting to see Bluebonnet blooms right now. You definitely have a green thumb!

Since the rain, all the Spring plants are acting like winter is over and stuff is up that is usually done by now.

Betsy, check your T-mail.

My bluebonnet seeds from this springs blooms are getting well established. Hope to see lots of blooms next spring. Lucky you to have a fall bloom.

It's bluebonnet blooming time!




Just two huge clumps and many more blooming.

Besides the bluebonnets, the Indian paintbrush are blooming along with them.

So happy to see them; they've spread through the round bed.
The cute purple/blue flower is Herbetia lahue. I found them years ago in my mom's backyard- dug some up and they done well and multiplied.

Show me your bonnets.

Beautiful blooms Betsy!
I don't have any but the Blue Bonnets on the roadside bloomed two weeks ago. They are fading away but I will enjoy yours. Thank you.

So much rain here, grasses are taller than the blooms and literally everything is in bloom for my visit - no Indian paintbrushes tho

Love that Crossvine Kat! Mine finally had a decent year. How long have they had that one? Mine is still relatively young in terms of being an established vine.

It was found and moved there from an abandoned house- they have been in Venus for 30 or 40 yrs I think I was told, it is in perfect place and the rains are just constant apparently - the grass is not been able to be mowed. The crossvine is on the fence next to the neighbors easement. The wisteria bloomed last week, so I left that giant clump out, as well as the photinias the horse once took to the ground and is now blooming and 15 or 20' tall. She loves her yard. Not so much the hackberries on it.

I'm growing the Crossvine on a cattle panel bent into an arch. A little hummer resented me standing under this morning. Afraid I'd eat her food I guess . She buzzed around my head a few times and decided I wasn't going anywhere in spite of her efforts. They are so territorial and for such tiny things can make quite a buzz about defending it! Do they ever do any pruning on the Crossvine? Mine's been too young to do that, but I think maybe next spring some discretionary hacking on it might make for a thick fuller vine on the arch.

Hackberry trees are a pain. Wisteria can be as well, but it's beautiful when it blooms well. If it's growth is not curtailed assiduously, it can be a rank, invasive, strangling plant otherwise. I had one at a rented house once and I never want exposure to another one. I'm content to see it in other places.

I agree about the hackberries and the wisteria. A very large wisteria vine actually rotated the stone pillars across the front of my parents, house and at least a couple of hackberries fall here every year - usually onto a fence. Wretched plants!

Hackberries are disease and insect magnets. A wisteria that isn't controlled ensures you can't grow anything else. The rented place had the whole yard covered with thick, tough roots over prox 25' x 25' area. NOTHING grew, absolutely nothing. I was using an axe to chop through those roots and never got very far at creating a space where things could grow. That vine owned the property and despite my managing to get a number of huge roots fairly close to the main vine, it was strong enough to thrive. Couldn't tell I'd ever slowed its growth at all. I'd always admired them until then, but the couple of weeks they bloomed were not worth the trouble otherwise. I was never again tempted to get one.

I saw them out of control in Fl, had one once, its vines were as bad as my trumpet vines. Yup, admire them elsewhere. I don't have hackberry here, I have tons equally as irritating tho- Chinese Tallow tree, pines, oaks, elms, sweetgum, sourgum, yaupon, smilax... am home again, still cold but I have more blankets here.

Here is my back yard of blue bonnets. I had a good year.

Ooh, wow!

leecoxhouse said: Here is my back yard of blue bonnets. I had a good year.

Just gorgeous! I had a few in my front yard at my last house here in Temple. But they were nowhere to be seen when I drove by recently, so they may have mowed too soon in the season and killed off the seed production. Too bad.

Welcome to the forums, by the way! You'll love it here.