Yippee for Spring!

[Bron]

Spring? It's just started snowing again here.

That's great though. I've never seen a hummingbird.

[tulip]

Reminds me of a story...when I lived in Austin a long time ago, we rented a little house with a yard. This was before I went to grad school in landscape architecture, so I knew very little about plants at the time. In fact, that house got me interested.

Anyhoo, there were all these little funny plants coming up in the lawn in late winter (which is like February in Austin!). I meticulously picked them out whenever I saw them. They were everywhere! I didn't get them all, and low and behold, the ones that survived my ignorant attack bloomed...they were BLUE BONNETS!

It would have been SO beautiful to have a lawn full of blue bonnets, but I had picked them out so well that the effect was less than spectacular. I've always wanted a blue bonnet lawn ever since.

[Aggie_Ama]

Unfortunately the clover did not look good attacking my bermuda grass. It was really big clover, almost looked like the ground cover people plant around their trees. And we have a home owners association, don't think letting weeds stay is approved. Maybe I can tell my husband we shouldn't pull the clover in the back yard?

The little gal (I assume since she was kind of plain looking and brown) was visiting my violas. Those flowers were planted in November and even though the plant part looks a little tired, they are blooming like crazy.

My barn swallows are also back, pooping all over my porch. Last spring they really controlled the mosquitos in my front yard, so unlike my neighbors I leave them undisturbed. Can't wait to see the first little clutch of birds!

Tulip- How funny about the bluebonnets. I want to plant a bunch in my backyard. Nothing says spring like a field of bluebonnets.