Bluebonnets –
Bluebonnets are very picky. They like to be planted in direct sun and they need to be planted in the fall so they can germinate when the mother rains come. Those are just instructions for people – they do it just fine on their own. People say April showers bring May flowers, but that’s not true for bluebonnets. October showers bring March flowers.
Whenever bluebonnets grow on the side of the road they have no shade and hardly any water. For such a delicate-looking flower they are pretty hardy. Bluebonnets are lupines which means they have split leaves and are in the pea family. In summer their dried bean pods make seeds for next year’s crop.
Bluebonnets only stay around for about a month and then they are gone for another year. There is just nothing quite as pretty as a bluebonnet.
Nothing.
