Bluebonnet Festival blooms with local native wildflower show

  • The Highland Lakes Birding and Wildflower Society exhibited one Texas Bluebonnet wildflower during its “Local Native Wildflower Show” during the recent Bluebonnet Festival.
    The Highland Lakes Birding and Wildflower Society exhibited one Texas Bluebonnet wildflower during its “Local Native Wildflower Show” during the recent Bluebonnet Festival.
  • Highland Lakes Birding and Wildflower Society member Terry Duncan searches for facts in the Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country book by Marshall Enquist. Photos by Raymond V. Whelan/Bulletin
    Highland Lakes Birding and Wildflower Society member Terry Duncan searches for facts in the Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country book by Marshall Enquist. Photos by Raymond V. Whelan/Bulletin
  • The colorful Indian Blanket Firewheel often appears after Texas Bluebonnets begin to fade away, according to Highland Lakes Birding and Wildflower Society members.
    The colorful Indian Blanket Firewheel often appears after Texas Bluebonnets begin to fade away, according to Highland Lakes Birding and Wildflower Society members.
April showers bring May flowers. It is an old adage many nature lovers believe is true. “All showers bring flowers, because different plants bloom at different times of the year,” says Terry Duncan, a Round Mountain resident, also an enthusiastic member of the Highland Lakes Birding and Wildflower Society. Duncan helped the society host the “Native Wildflower Show” in Burnet during the…

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