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Knowing your location helps us recommend plants that will thrive in your climate, based on your Growing Zone.
Knowing your location helps us recommend plants that will thrive in your climate, based on your Growing Zone.
Texas Bluebonnets (Lupinus texensis) are adapted to the rocky, alkaline soils and drought-prone climate of Hill Country, but they are known to be highly adaptable and can be grown in a wide range of growing conditions. These wildflowers thrive in heavily disturbed, poor soils. They grow to a height of about six inches to a foot and a half tall, depending on the moisture and soil condition. Texas Bluebonnets are some of the first prairie wildflowers to appear in the spring.
Favorite companions for Texas bluebonnet include native grasses, California Poppies, Evening Primrose, and Scarlet Paintbrush (Castilleja indivisa). Scarlet Paintbrush is a hemi-parasitic plant, meaning it grows best when its roots form an association with the roots of a nearby Texas Bluebonnet plant, which is a legume, and as such, a nitrogen fixer for poor soils. The Indian Paintbrush draws the nutrients and moisture it needs, without harming the host Bluebonnet. Texas Bluebonnet is an annual plant. It germinates, grows, flowers, and sets seed over the course of one year. If conditions are favorable in your garden, the plants will set seed and reproduce. It can take some time to establish a large stand of Texas Bluebonnets, as the seeds can be finicky with their specific requirements, but the beauty is worth the wait!
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