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Family Spring Outing: Wildflowers in Texas
Garden Soil Preparation?Different types of plants each require varying degrees of soil acidity or pH. Some plants are very sensitive to soil pH ..... Looking for a great weekend outing for the family' Come see the wildflowers in Texas in the spring. The highway medians and hillsides are full of color ' bright red, yellow and blue, pink and cream ' but you better look out because cars are always pulling off the side of the highway to ogle and take photographs. It's a tradition to get in your car in the spring and go look at the wildflowers. Nearly everyone in Texas has a photo of their kids in the bluebonnets. BLUEBONNETS Typically, in my photo album there's a photo of me in the bluebonnets taken by my grandmother, a photo of my sons in the bluebonnets, taken by me, and a photo of my granddaughter in the bluebonnets taken by my daughter-in-law. Bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas grow all over the Texas Hill Country, from San Antonio up to Dallas and for two weekends in April people come from all around for what has become one of central Texas' major events. 'Don't be surprised,' says an article in the Austin Statesman 'to see 30 to 40 cars pulled off the road at some spots, with children squatting in neck-high fields of lupinus, better known as bluebonnets, smiling for the family camera.' In fact it's such an event, there are some hotlines you can call that track sightings of wildflowers that will tell you the best places. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center ( http://www.wildflower.org
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