Texas Bluebonnets, Every Last One of Them

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  1. Joy Butler
  2. greggpasterick
  3. jerrib
  4. greggpasterick

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Top 1.   Mar 22, 2005 3:32 AM

» Joy Butler - Texas Bluebonnets

As a lifelong Texan who is proud of our bluebonnets, I enjoyed your article. Every Spring these flowers stretch like a sea of blue across fields and along highways. I do hope you get to Texas one day to see this beautiful sight. There are also white ones, pink ones, lavendar ones, and maroon ones. Maroon bluebonnets are called Alamo Fire. There's an interesting legend surrounding the pink bluebonnets.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wilds...

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plant...

-- posted by Joy Butler



Top 2.   Mar 22, 2005 7:30 AM

» greggpasterick - Re: Texas Bluebonnets

In response to Texas Bluebonnets posted by JButler:

Hi Joy,

glad ya enjoyed the article. I figured Texans to be my toughest crowd on this one: so far, so good!

My wife and I are hoping to catch the tail end of this year's show in April. We will be taking the long way around from Ohio to a summer job in Montana, hoping for lots of wildflowers and warblers in TX, NM, AZ, CA and the Pacific NW...

I don't know if you'd be interested ... I have started a Wildflowers of North America group/list. So far there ar ten of us on it, one an internet friend from down on the Rio Grande! THe rest are all in the midwest ... with me soon to be in MT ... and we're really hopin' to get folks from all over the country to join. It yer interested, lemme know and I'll add ya ... or if ya know anyone else whom might be interested, let them know about it.

Thanks ...

-- posted by greggpasterick



Top 3.   Mar 22, 2005 7:50 AM

» jerrib - Hope you make it to

Texas, too, Gregg. You probably will someday and see the bluebonnets for yourself.

-- posted by jerrib



Top 4.   Mar 24, 2005 6:58 AM

» greggpasterick - Re: Hope you make it to

In response to Hope you make it to posted by jerrib:

...I realized the other day, if we are too late to TX this year for peak bluebonnet bloom, we will hit the CA coast at the right time for peaking bloom of the yellow bush lupine...

There's always something somewhere, I guess. Say, what will eastern WA be doing around the end of the April? Last year, we hit the Columbia River in the middle of the state during the first week of May and the wildflowers were blooming mightily...

-- posted by greggpasterick



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