Trips to Bountiful 2010
Wildflower Drives: The serendipity of wildflowers
By Melissa Gaskill After an unusually cold, wet, and blustery winter, spring couldn’t come soon enough to Texas this year. One bonus for suffering through those dreary months: This year’s wildflowers could prove spectacular. Most of us have a favorite field, road, or hillside that we
watch for those first blips of color that foretell the blaze of spring glory to
come. To help us plan our annual wildflower drives, we asked experts at the
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin to recommend some locations likely
to sport a bounty of blooms. Of course, when, where, how many, and what types
of wildflowers bloom in any given area depend mightily on rainfall,
temperature, and whether a landscape was mowed, tilled, or otherwise altered.
But odds are good for an abundance of color and variety along the routes
spotlighted on these pages. In addition to flowers, we’ve suggested other
sights to look for, places to grab a bite, and, should one day not prove
sufficient to slake your wildflower thirst,
See the full article in the April 2010 issue. |
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