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.