Spring swinging into the Wildflower Center

Two weekends successful a enactment I spent a fewer hours astatine the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, archetypal to spot what was successful bloom and past to enactment the motorboat of horticulture manager Andrea DeLong-Amaya’s caller book, The Texas Native Plant Primer.

Redbuds were successful bloom 2 weeks agone — a week up of my own.

Carolina jessamine was going beardown — conscionable arsenic it was finishing up successful my garden.

Here’s thing I don’t person astatine location this twelvemonth — the iconic Texas bluebonnet! Bluebonnets are scarce to nonexistent this outpouring on Austin roadsides, wherever they usually crook verges blue. It’s been bittersweet not to spot them — drought kept seedlings from sprouting past autumn — truthful this small spot astatine the Wildflower Center made maine smile.

Long unrecorded the bluebonnets! They’ll beryllium backmost adjacent year, upwind gods willing.

The 2nd weekend, aureate groundsel was aglow successful the introduction gardens.

Yellows alternatively of blues — we’ll instrumentality it and not outcry astir it.

Maidenhair fern was blessed alongside a dripping pool.

While I don’t person pics to share, some weekends my companions and I strolled retired to the arboretum to plaything nether the large unrecorded oaks. For a abbreviated time, I was a kid again, pumping my legs for the sky.

Before Andrea’s presentation, we popped into the acquisition shop, wherever I spotted my publication Lawn Gone! beforehand and center.

Thanks for carrying and featuring it, Wildflower Center staff!

Andrea’s caller publication is present too, eye-catching with that cactus-curious rabbit and flowering autochthonal plants connected the cover. Look for a reappraisal from maine soon present astatine Digging!

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This Thursday: Come larn astir a visionary autochthonal works plot called SummerHome astatine my adjacent Garden Spark presumption connected April 10th astatine 7:30 pm! Tickets are inactive available. I’m excited to invited Lisa Negri to my Garden Spark talker series and present her to a Texas assemblage of appreciative autochthonal works lovers. Hear however she transformed an bare batch into an oasis for wildlife and neighbors. The speech volition beryllium held astatine Leaf Landscape Supply (north location), and tickets indispensable beryllium purchased successful advance. Join america for an evening of learning, inspiration, and assemblage with chap plot lovers!

Shop the Spring Native Plant Sale astatine the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center each play done April 27, 9 americium to 1 p.m. (last introduction astatine 12:30 pm). Plant merchantability admittance is free. Bring your ain wagon oregon cart to transport your treasures.

Come to the Austin Cactus and Succulent Society Show & Sale astatine Zilker Botanical Garden connected March 29-30 from 10 americium to 5 pm. Includes a works amusement with specimen cacti and succulents, handcrafted pottery, regular soundless auction and hourly works raffles, and adept advice. Admission is included with paid admittance to Zilker Garden.

Tour 5 unsocial Houston gardens connected Saturday, April 26, from 10 americium to 4 pm, during the Garden Conservancy’s Open Day Tour for Houston. Tickets indispensable beryllium purchased online successful beforehand done the Garden Conservancy.

Come larn astir gardening and plan astatine Garden Spark! I signifier in-person talks by inspiring designers, scenery architects, authors, and gardeners a fewer times a twelvemonth successful Austin. These are limited-attendance events that merchantability retired quickly, truthful articulation the Garden Spark email database to beryllium notified successful advance; simply click this nexus and inquire to beryllium added. Read each astir the Season 8 lineup here!

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