Spring in east Texas

14 years ago

I've so enjoyed the beautiful pictures here, I thought I'd share my amateur capturing of some of the beauty at my place in east Texas. I'm skipping the bulbs as I'd have a whole album of them!

First to bloom is the winter honeysuckle:

The Lenten Rose (hellebores) bloom around the same time:

Then the Viburnums start - first Burkwoodii:

followed by Leather leaf (a bit past its prime here):

and the Japanese Snowball Viburnum:

I haven't downloaded the pics of the rusty blackhaw viburnum, yet - I saw two or three of these native on my property, visible from the street!

Back under some of the viburnum, still in a pot, was a lovely little buckeye that I transplanted from Euless:

Off to the side the ornamental comfrey is in full flower:

While overhead the Kerria Japonica blooms its first flush:

A little azalea that I haven't planted yet surprised me with a bloom:

and a banana shrub that awaits its permanent location is starting to join in:

Hope you enjoy!

Lin

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melvalena
14 years ago
WOW Lin!! you've got such a great start on your place!
rcnaylor
14 years ago
How lovely. And, of course, they couldn't be more different from my West Texas/Panhandle shots. Or our Houston and Dallas, central texas contingents' shots. Ain't this a great state?!!

It is really neat to see her beauty from side to side and top to bottom. I am thinking, though, we need to drum up some posters from out in the Davis Mountains and Big Bend country. We'd just about have her covered then.

Thanks again for sharing East Texas with us Lin.

(Anyone from far west and southwest Texas??)
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roselee z8b S.W. Texas
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I LOVED seeing your photos! Some of these things I've never seen growing. Do you have acid or at least more neutral soil? I love the buckeye -- foliage and flower. Do you know if it grows well in alkaline soils?

From Melva's comment it sounds like you are just starting to landscape at a new place. What fun. Please keep us 'posted' on how it's coming along.
rock_oak_deer
14 years ago
Those are beautiful. Thanks for sharing those as it's so much fun to see a totally different view of landscaping in Texas.
jolanaweb
14 years ago
Oh Lin, how beautiful, we thought of you when we headed east recently. I have never seen so many buckeyes and redbuds in the wild.
Thank you for posting them and I say post your bulb pix, I know how much you love them and I don't care if it is a book of photos, lol
Thanks again, jolana
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
14 years ago
Gorgious photos......Buckeye does grow in the canyons of the Pedernales river. That is central texas alkaline, but it is moist canyons protected from the sunlight and in lots of leafy built up soil.
carrie751
14 years ago
Hey, and this is Lin doing this only part time. Just wait until she gets moved over there and spends many hours in that lovely surrounding. Great pics, Lin.
wilo
14 years ago
I want a buckeye!

oops, er, did I saw that outloud?

not sure where I'd put one.

shoot, I'm still digging holes for roses. I am sooooo slow these days. but. . . as I tell my sister, tortoise and the hare, baby. . . I'll get there.

but you did post some really pretty things. Things I don't think I see around here.
bossjim1
14 years ago
Lin, these are very pretty. I can only imagine what that azalea will look like when it is full grown! Thanks for posting.
Jim
piksi_hk
14 years ago
Lin, that kerria is just "electric"...wow, what color.
BTW, what camera did you take it with?
Lin barkingdogwoods
Original Author
14 years ago
These were mostly taken with my old reliable point and shoot Fuji E510; the large photos (sorry!) I took with an HP Photosmart M417 that came free with a photo printer. Both are 5.2 megapixels.

The soil on my place in east Texas I assume to be acid (but I don't really worry about that). The one issue I have is that the soil is sugar sand, so no fertility - the previous owner kept the ground all nice and neat, not a leaf ever decomposed there - till I bought it!

(I have to say that I'm so glad I stumbled into the Gallery section - what a fun place to post!)

Off to find bulb pics...

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