Silver-spotted Hairstreak on more dianthus (dianthus is very popular):
Also starting to put on a show is the wildflower border I planted last winter along the street-side fence. Last spring I got a few bluebonnets out of it, and some mixed-color corn poppies and coreopsis. This year I'm getting a whole 'nother variety, probably on the theory that some of the seeds really took two seasons to get established. It's interesting that these are coming up now in my yard while there is still no sign of them in the wild around here, and apparently things are only just in the earliest stages in key wildflower blooming areas, like the Hill Country. We had a rather dry fall and winter (after the deluge of Spring), so we are only expecting marginal blooming this year, but it's rained several times in the last few weeks, so maybe that will boost it?
I'm also surprised that I don't see any bluebonnets at all in my yard--not even the plants as far as I can tell (and they do have rather distinctive looking foliage), since I thought they were some of the earliest bloomers. Mebbe the few I had last year didn't self-seed much? I dunno. Right now though, I've got a whole bunch of these "Showy Primroses" (I love these, they used to bloom out of the sidewalk cracks back in my hometown in Jawja):
And amazingly I have this whole row of red poppies too. Only four blooms open as of today, but the plants are absolutely BURSTING with buds, so I can guarantee some more pics in the near future. A town we like to go to south of here has a "Red Poppy Festival" at the end of next month, but nyaaah, nyaaaah!! Mine are blooming NOW:
Stay tuned! We are going into peak season next month! Woohoo!
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