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Hey Kachina624

SharkE — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:47:39 GMT

What's these little purple flowers called. After the 'wet' weather we've had my yard is a bloom.

Not blue bonnets I think they're farther South.

maybe it's just a type of weed, but, is pretty !

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godi — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:22:38 GMT

I don’t know what they are but they sure are pretty!

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SharkE — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:35:09 GMT

She's living in the Southwest lot longer then I have, so, she probably knows what they are. Hubbo will mow over them hahahhaha so I grabbed a shot while I could

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Drlinda — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:10:15 GMT

They look like wild phlox.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 01:43:24 GMT

@SharkE. I don't think I've ever seen them before. Texas has the most gorgeous wildflowers and after this wet winter, they should be spectacular. A group of us from work once drove from Midland to Dallas for a meeting in early April and I'll never forget the flowers we saw. Just don't wear blu-blocker sunglasses; they make bluebonnets look black.

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SharkE — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 01:46:26 GMT

yeah, these are tiny purple flowers. Todays paper said the bluebonnets are in Central Tx and Hill Country. I've got almost my whole property covered with them that is not hit by the sprinkler system. The outlying areas that is usually ugly. I think that's a first since I moved here in 2010.

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Spurt — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 04:29:29 GMT

@SharkE

Need a closeup of the flower....Here's some possibilities....

they might be

Meadow Pink Texas Star...

We thought they might be verbeneas...

Here's a prairie verbena

Vincas

Here's a Mexican Petunia

Wild Phlox

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Kachina624 — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 05:42:25 GMT

I happened to think of wild primroses but they bloom off and on all summer, not one and done in the spring.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 05:47:27 GMT

@SharkE. Let them die and go to seed before mowing and maybe they'll be back next year. See? Those winds blow in good things.

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Imaoldhippie — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 11:21:38 GMT

From the photo it looks like it could be wild clover.

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SharkE — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 13:42:05 GMT

yeah, I'll get close up. Today, it turned off cold and windy as all get out

I got 'em all around the ponderosa except where the yard is hit by sprinklers

these are growing out where usually it's bare. Nobody can irrigate 2 1/2 acres. LOL

(less your growing a money crop like cotton) That was one of the things that surprised us down here was cotton is grown in Tx. Always thought of that being only in the South.

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SharkE — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 14:57:56 GMT

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SharkE — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:01:48 GMT

not a grave stone by the way. In Tx breaking up a wide expanse of land a ton rock lends some interest. LOL

got another one on the other side of house LOL

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SharkE — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:06:04 GMT

It's a Tx thing and I'll GUARANTEE YOU no wind or hail will take these and a tornado would have to work on it. LOL Cost me a fortune to have them delivered. Stones are cheap, but, the transportation and placing of is OUCH ! Started out 75 bucks, last one was 125 no telling what it is now

probably 200 !