A subject very near & dear to my heart! Truer words were never spoken for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Christine this is possibly the best tip of the whole year.

I love my native plants. I never have to fertilize, spray or worry over them. They are garden treasures.

and the local pollinators love them, too

Hey, how'd you all get this tip before the 22nd???

Something to do with Greenwich mean time which somehow translates to 8 pm eastern US. I think.

Those native plants...I love them! And finally we have enough little baby plants waiting until it's time to bloom next year! It's raining again.
Esperanza:

Oh, I love that bright yellow. Sure wish it would grow here. : (

Here is another native woodland plant for the Pacific Northwest. Fawn Lily. Erythronium oregonum

Well, saying that I like them would be an understatement, since I am crazy about them, here is Frostweed and Obedient plant.

Very pretty. Texas has some beautiful native plants.

Yes, Texas does have wonderful native plants and I am sure other states have them too, we just need more dedicated people to get out there and point them out.
It seems that Texas has a good number of those, and that is a good thing.
Lindhiemer's Morning Glory, which Linda gave me.

Yes, that's one I've loved since my days hanging around at the university! That Fawn Lily looks awfully pretty, Lynn!

I love all your pictures of wildflowers!

Thank you Christine, they are wonderful subjects, and they always smile just right.

Linda, that patch of Fawn Lilies is growing under my apple trees. I don't mow that area until all the foliage had died back. I moved a few to the woodland to see if they would like it there. They actually grow much bigger in the woodland.

Lynn, we have a similar lily around here called a Trout lily, and they look very similar to the ones in your picture.
I wonder if they might be related?
Trout lilies take 7 years from seed to bloom and they die after that, so they are very special indeed
http://wildflower.org/plants/r...

The Fawn Lily doesn't die after blooming. I haven't found any information saying they die after blooming? Do you have a link that talks about it?
I know the foliage dies back after blooming, like many of our spring blooming bulbs do. : )

There are a number of different species of Erythronium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
How fascinating. I love the pink one they show in the wikipedia link.

I found a link here that explains it, very interesting that it is pollinated by ants, I didn't know that.
http://www.auburn.edu/~deancar...

I didn't know that about the ants, thanks Josephine for that info. Come next spring when mine are in bloom, you will find me laying on my tummy with my camera, trying to get a photo of the ants pollinating the blooms.