Preview?! Nope--our first flower of Spring 2011 opened up today! No need for digging in the archives.
Last year the Wind Flowers (Anemone heterophylla) opened eight days earlier. Perhaps they have been waiting out the extreme cold temperatures we've been experiencing. Usually around eight inches tall, the lack of winter rains has cetainly stunted these, which barely have stems!
The Bluebonnets (Lupinus texensis) which usually begin blooming around the end of March are dwarfed as well. They should be at least three times this size by now. It doesn't seem to matter how much I water them, only a good rain will make them grow!
This week in an effort to create more positive drainage (not that we get much rain), the county road workers scraped about 2-3 inches of topsoil, wildflower sprouts, and the wildflower seed bank from in front of our house and all the surrounding areas.
Of course all of this makes me worry about my honeybees, seeing their list of future provisions reduced. One of my goals this year is to propagate 10,000 flowers for them! I've already started 700 Salvias, Mints, Coneflowers, Mulleins, and Lavenders from seed.
Aren't these Fearnleaf Lavenders cute? I hope your Spring is not long in coming, and I'm happy to say Spring officially began here in Southwest Texas today! For more previews of Spring, visit Sunday Stills.
6 comments:
I hope spring comes soon... pretty flowers.
What a pretty start for spring! Your plants are, of course, far ahead of ours here.
Lucky you, soon it will be wildflowers galore..:-)
My heart has hope for spring soon after seeing your starts. My sister lives in North Central Texs and found some Naked Lady shoots which seems early.
Quite the gardening going on, hence the name Flowerweaver? Nice pictures. I'm sure we'll have a touch or two of winter before Spring sets in for good.
oh, you have flowers already! no fair! I can't wait to see some green, and blue, and...
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