1. Whirring Dervishes: Hummingbirds
(Outdoors/Outdoors)

... was filtered through the deep shade, laying down golden light on the water and revealing a wealth of busy insects darting among wildflowers, low shrubs, and rocks. Small fish and water bugs scurried ...

2. Where to See Summer Blooms
(Outdoors/Outdoors)

See related: Some Like It Hot Where to See Summer Blooms The following sites offer opportunities to see summer wildflowers. Keep in mind that changes in temperature and rainfall may cause plants ...

3. Some Like It Hot
(Outdoors/Outdoors)

... hole) on sweltering summer days, some of our native wildflowers revel in the heat. Evolution has led those species to thrive during periods of high temperature and little rainfall, thereby giving them ...

4. Trips to Bountiful 2010: Upcoming Wildflower Center Events
(Events/Events)

The Serendipity of Wildflowers 2010 Back to: Trip to Bountiful 2010 The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, in conjunction with Texas Highways and Canon, presents The Serendipity ...

5. Trips to Bountiful 2010: Heart of the Hill Country
(Roadtrip/Roadtrip 2 (Archive))

... on the walls, and make the shakes with Blue Bell Ice Cream. Heading east from Llano, Texas 29 parallels railroad tracks and the picturesque Llano River on your right, while wildflowers paint the fields ...

6. Trips to Bountiful 2010: Upper Coast
(Roadtrip/Roadtrip 2 (Archive))

... as do most wildflowers in these heavy woods. You’ll see dogwood, magnolia, and redbud in the spring. Drive north on US 69 about 17 miles to Woodville, watching for fringed sneezeweed, Carolina jessamine, ...

7. Trips to Bountiful 2010: Llano Estacado
(Roadtrip/Roadtrip 2 (Archive))

... soapberry, and willows grow along its banks, while mesquite, prickly pear, yucca, grasses—and during the spring, wildflowers—blanket the higher ground. Start in Amarillo, and head north on Texas ...

8. Trips to Bountiful 2010
(Roadtrip/Roadtrip 2 (Archive))

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 ...

9. Pining for the Perfect Tree
(Outdoors/Outdoors)

... a special piece of Texas, says The Nature Conservancy’s John Karges. Historically, he explains, this ecosystem contained roughly 30 trees per acre along with wildflowers and grasses. Slow-moving, low-intensity natural ...

10. Trip to Bountiful: TH Wildflower Drives
(Issue Content/News)

... you’ve heard about—or visiting a familiar place with someone who’s never been—without an agenda. Or, in the case of pursuing Texas wildflowers, finding yourself surprised with the splashes and brushstrokes ...

11. Flowers of Observation
(Issue Content/News)

    “I have found that the most important thing to do is to research different varieties of wildflowers in an area before actually looking for them. It’s incredible just how many you ...

12. 35 Things we Love About Texas - Reader, Jessie Ong
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... the Bluebell factory in Brenham. Especially in the Spring when the wildflowers are blooming. 20.    Bluebell’s vanilla bean ice cream. Wow! 21.    Picking peaches, strawberries and blackberries at the ...

13. Texas' Blooming Trees
(Issue Content/News)

By Nola McKey In most parts of Texas, flowering trees are the harbingers of the season—their blooms appear before those of many wildflowers and even before some of the trees themselves leaf out. Most of ...

14. 35 Things We Love About Texas - Jill Lawless
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... through the seas of wildflowers along Texas 71, Texas 29, and FM 1431 27.    The San Antonio Museum of Art’s impressive Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art; the museum’s ...

15. 35 Things We Love About Texas - Griff Smith
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... The wildflowers. Back to main page  ...

16. 35 Things We Love About Texas - Nola McKey
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... boundless fields of wildflowers   3.    Native-Texan pride   4.    Driving northwest on US 84, near Post, and coming upon the Llano Estacado with its dramatic demarcation ...

17. Guitar Heroes: Lone Start luthiers bring joy to the world
(Arts & Culture/Music)

... wildflowers and asphalt. One luthier, for example, ended a 30-year career as a plumber to build banjos, while another has a Master’s degree in classical-guitar performance and toured with jazz guitarist ...

18. Red River Ramble: Fall Fun in Fannin County
(Destinations/Prairies and Lakes)

... support of the county’s artists and their work. The Sam Rayburn Library and Museum, featuring white Georgian marble columns, maple trees lining the drive, a field of wildflowers spread about the broad ...

19. Just Passing through: Happy Birithday, LBJ
(Passing/Passing (Archive))

... made what many consider the best move of his life in 1934, when he met and married Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor, whose own legacy reemerges each spring in a profusion of roadside wildflowers. Elected ...

20. The Legend of Fort Boggy
(Passing/Passing (Archive))

... and campers in the ecotone. Along the trail, sun-drenched post oak savannas—sprinkled with wildflowers and native grasses—alternate with shady hardwood bottoms. The tunnel of sweet gum trees at trail’s ...