Very nice looking flowers. Orchids :)

Thanks!

Thank you Jimbo.

Some today

[QUOTE=AlittleSalt;627606]Some today[/QUOTE]

Awesomeness, are those at your place Salt? You've inspired my wife and I to take a Sunday drive! :lol:. Thank you pard! :). Jimbo :)

[QUOTE=Jimbotomateo;627612]Awesomeness, are those at your place Salt? You've inspired my wife and I to take a Sunday drive! :lol:. Thank you pard! :). Jimbo :)[/QUOTE]

Yes they are.

I need to get out and take some pictures away from the property. There are some beautiful flowers nearby - in walking distance.

What a beautiful sight. I love waking up and seeing my Blue-eyed grass greeting me. They are such happy faces to greet you in the spring.

I am enjoying all the pretty pics in this thread. Yay for spring!

And thank you to ALittleSalt for posting the photos of the henbit. I was out gathering some flowers with my toddler this morning and she insisted on picking a few for "her" vase. I've had it forever as a "weed" in my yard--a very pretty weed--but I never knew what it was called.

I love the grape hyacinths, too. I had planted a few in one of my flower beds and, in a fit of overly-enthusiastic weeding one year, ending up yanking many of them out by accident. Lo and behold, they have now sprung up throughout my lawn where I must have tossed the weeded-out stuff. And they're growing better in the lawn than they ever did in the flower bed!

The desert in bloom.
Arroyo sweet wood bottle brush blue bonnets cactus Mexican yellow bird of paradise.
Not in any order.
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They all look very nice Worth. What is the one blooming red in the next to last picture?

Thanks.
Weeping bottle brush it barely lives here do to the cold.
Comes from Australia.

Worth

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Weeping bottle brush it barely lives here do to the cold.
Comes from Australia.

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That would explain why I haven't seen one. Going by the older zone ratings, we were on the 7B / 8A line. I have experienced it getting down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit here, but only a few times in my 52 years.

Oak
 

I have written about this past fall, we had more acorns on the ground than I have ever seen here. Here's a picture of the results.

Some more pictures from around our place. I don't know what either of the purple flowers are other than wildflowers. It's starting to look like May here on April 3.

Some henbit, I was covering my rows with black plastic and weeding my paths but the honey bees were all over the henbit so I decided to leave it be.

It sure looks like a lovely spring day there. The flowers are lovely and I sure can't wait to see something green and blooming around here. It's just cold and rainy here today. An Eeyore kind of day.

Your purple flower is called Callirhoe involucrata and it sure is pretty.

[url]http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=g450[/url]

Our first iris to bloom this year. I wonder what is growing the pot? pic 2 and 3.

This is what [COLOR=purple][B]Grape Hyacinth[/B][/COLOR] bulbs look like...(When left in a bowl and forgotten and there's rain.) ... and they are not lupines. :lol:

Lovely flowers
 

Really enjoying all the pretty pictures. Here bottle brush will grow to the size of a small tree.

Donna

Lantana, thorn tree, buttercup

The thorn tree flower is a Mesquite. I couldn't add a picture above, so I'll post it here.

I forget what the others are.

[QUOTE=AlittleSalt;631277]Lantana, thorn tree, buttercup[/QUOTE]

Man, those are gorgeous flowers salt! :yes:. I don't think I've seen those before. Great photography! :):):). Jimbo

Thank you Jimbo. This is what I mostly take pictures with. It's a Nintendo DSi. When I take close-up pictures - I am actually standing that close to the object. It is easy to use and I don't have to resize the pictures for here.

My wife's new camera takes pictures that I have to downsize to 15%. So, I use the DSi.

[QUOTE=AlittleSalt;631295]My wife's new camera takes pictures that I have to downsize to 15%. So, I use the DSi.[/QUOTE]

Spend a few hours with the manual. ;) After a while you will find the switch to turn down the "raw picture" resolution and save format. Mine by default saves in hi-res TIFF which is yuge! Plenty of room on the card, but then there is the post-processing...

(Course if you save in a low res, all that extra info is lost. Your choice.)

Future Flowers
 

My wife absolutely loves morning glories, and I agree with her. First picture. [COLOR=red][B]WARNING[/B][/COLOR] They are extremely invasive, but I don't mind them growing as weeds.

We let our 7 and 4 year old grandchildren help plant them. I built a string trellis for them to grow on along with some Painted Lady runner beans. Yes, there are too many planted and will be thinned out some.

The Painted Lady Picture comes from [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=painted+lady+runner+bean&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwi7j5_f-qbTAhWl7IMKHb4pCYYQ_AUIBigB&biw=1152&bih=553#imgrc=Y4dsCe4CnL58MM:&spf=191[/URL]

The odd looking yellow markers are plastic straws.

Loving all the flower pics
 

I took an ugly bare area that was shady and tried to beautify it a few weeks ago. Planted fuschia, shrimp plant, begonia and dwarf hydrangea (on the Texas gulf coast hydrangea will burn in the sun). Everything's looking good. Hummingbirds love the fuschia and the shrimp plants.

Cajun hibiscus variety Yehudi
 

Large blooms.

Salt, the unknown weed in your post #47 looks like one we call gypsywort.
There are many common names for it (confusing!), but the genus is Lycopus and there are a number of species that look very similar. Mint family, mostly found in wet areas - ours grows here with peppermint where the river meets the pond. It doesn't have a minty smell. The mint looks similar but there are subtle differences, for example the leaves are not as serrated.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopus_americanus[/url] found throughout North America. There are other species that might be in Texas too.
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[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopus_asper[/url]

Very pretty SpookyShoe.

Bower, I just looked and the plants do have the little berries. ...why not show a picture :lol: Purslane was planted in the two pots last year - it's coming back.

The first two pictures are of Solanum elaeagnifolium – Silverleaf Nightshade - it's also called Tomato Weed. [URL]http://www.fireflyforest.com/flowers/2369/solanum-elaeagnifolium-silverleaf-nightshade/[/URL]

The last two are Sugar Snap Pea flowers.