Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 1, 2015 18:38:39 GMT -5
Howdy folks, I know, kind of boring but I have too show the start of our wildflower progression in our yard. First ones to bloom are the Texas Bluebonnets ( a type of lupine) and the Texas Paintbrush . Just a portion of the backyard Bluebonnets inside the deer fence of course cause deer eat them up.  Paintbrushes are kind of buried by the bluebonnets but will from larger clumps as the bluebonnets finish up. The paintbrush bloom all summer long in waves.  |
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Apr 1, 2015 18:53:43 GMT -5
Pretty Mel! Looks pretty bare on the other side of the fence.How about dewberries there? Haven't seen so many in years here.
snuffy
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 1, 2015 20:24:25 GMT -5
Wow, I didn't even know Texas had dewberries, unless I'm thinking of the wrong thing. I thought they were native to wet woods of the northwest US. Only berry plants we have growing around here are agarita berries.
Yep, 100 cattle, 400 blackbuck, 40 mouflon, and 1200 whitetail tend to make things pretty bare outside the fence. *L* Pretty much anything that ain't poison and some that are, gets gobbled up real fast. Dang whitetails will mug you and kick yore arse for a banana peel.....Mel
OK looked up Southern Dewberry. We do have something like that down along the creek where it hangs over the bank and deer can't reach it and we do have some blackberries too now that I think of it, but I've never seen a fruit on other one. Maybe due to the eight million raccoons we have here *L*
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Post by braders on Apr 1, 2015 20:53:36 GMT -5
Cool pic looks nice even tho to be standing where you took that pic would require a bottle of allergy meds and a blanket for a snot rag lol.
We get the cool wave of daisies and sunflowers in the mountains it's amazing but don't last long .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 21:56:46 GMT -5
Cali gold poppies popping here!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 1, 2015 22:36:17 GMT -5
Got to admit the pretty flowers make me sneeze a bit too. The Huisache tree in my desert plant collection is the one that is really brutal though. Smells so great it's used for perfume but is almost overpowering when in full bloom and man that one causes allergies to act up.....Mel
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 1, 2015 22:46:52 GMT -5
Mel,spring and summer flowers are never boring! Spring flowers growing crazy here too................Thanks for sharing....
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Post by snowmom on Apr 2, 2015 4:55:24 GMT -5
beautiful! no, not boring, We have versions of lupines and paintbrushes here, too, but they are still asleep, and never seen them quite so abundant as that lawn. What a show! Thanks for the post!
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Post by jamesp on Apr 2, 2015 8:42:42 GMT -5
the perfect front yard. No mowing needed.
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Post by drocknut on Apr 4, 2015 20:59:25 GMT -5
Cali gold poppies popping here! Where's the pictures? Fossilman too, where's the pictures. Mel showed us his. And they are beautiful. Thanks for posting the pics brings back memories of my living in Texas a lot of years ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 22:15:37 GMT -5
Cali gold poppies popping here! Where's the pictures? Fossilman too, where's the pictures. Mel showed us his. And they are beautiful. Thanks for posting the pics brings back memories of my living in Texas a lot of years ago. I deserve that. Maybe tomorrow. Thanks for the nudge. |
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Post by bobby1 on Apr 5, 2015 11:46:46 GMT -5
We had some little yellow things growing on the back of the property. We are on our 4th mowing of the wild grass that goes crazy in the winter/spring. This year was really warm and we had some early rains and the grass took off. It grows about a foot in 3 or 4 weeks and must be mowed to prevent wildfires in the summer. Even though we had just a small portion of our usual rain it didn't stop the grass. The recent hot days have started drying it out and I only see 1 mowing left before summer. It is going to be very hot and dry. We are abandoning our small lawn. Probably put in artificial grass but it is real expensive - $3.4 a square foot.
Bob
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Post by captbob on Apr 7, 2015 11:52:25 GMT -5
Beautiful and right in your back yard!
There was a story on the bluebonnets on the nightly news last night. Fields of flowers as far as you could see - absolutely stunning.
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Post by parfive on Apr 11, 2015 3:18:53 GMT -5
Mouflon, Moufloff.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 12, 2015 9:52:18 GMT -5
Parfive, We often get our animals or the neighbors sheep or goats caught in the wire fences. Freeing them is always an adventure as they fail to appreciate the fact you are helping them out. Got to be very careful not to get one's fingers between the horns and the wire as it's a great way to lose or break a finger as the dang critters almost always lunge back when you try to free them. With four legs they get great traction too so a hundred pound animal can flat drag you right on your arse real quick.....Mel
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