Weather permitting, this year 'could be an eight' on the wildflower scale, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's horticulture director says.
Colorful palettes of bluebonnets and other wildflowers are popping up on Texas Hill Country highways and landscapes as the 2024 wildflower season begins to blossom in full bounty.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. While the drought of last summer was tough on plants, it likely helped this spring’s wildflower display, according to Matt O’Toole, the wildflower center’s director of land management.“When we have extreme weather the prior summer, we see some plant mortality, which reduces competition in the soil and creates space for spring blooming wildflowers,” O’Toole said in a Feb. 21 press release.“A lot of grasses were beaten back by the drought.
Bluebonnets, a type of legume, are nitrogen fixers, contributing to soil improvement by making nitrogen, an essential element for plant growth, available.
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