Debra’s Bluebonnets

Growing the iconic Texas wildflower

Today we ’re off to Texas to call with Debra Castle .

I am a Master Gardener in the South Plains of Lubbock , Texas , home of Buddy Holly and Mac Davis , which is halfway between Midland and Amarillo , kind of in the Texas Panhandle . I garden in a desert mood with temperature extreme from 115 ° to – 7 ° atomic number 9 . We have also been in an extreme drought for several years , so water system is expensive and necessitate to be maintain . I have garden on some horizontal surface at my home for 38 years . My garden has evolve depend on kid ’s action and work docket , but I am retired now so I ’m all in ! I have cultivate Texas bluebonnets(Lupinustexensis , annual ) for 30 years , which do n’t grow here course .

Once established , Texas Lupinus subcarnosus demand very short attention or urine . They continue pest free and defy temperature extremes .

They can be intemperate tostart from purchase seed , as the seed has a very concentrated cuticle . I have found success with buying works and letting them go to seminal fluid , which then germinates in the fall . I now have them every twelvemonth in random place all over my garden .

Last class this color popped up . I have no idea how this happened . I ’m hoping some of them reseeded this year . We are recovering from the polar vortex assault , so flora are boring in coming out , but it did n’t faze the buffalo clover !

Close - up of a pink buffalo clover plant life

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