Seven miles east of Fredericksburg, Texas on US HWY 290, Wildseed Farms extends a COLORful welcome to visitors throughout most of the year. 2015 brought abundant rainfall and wildflowers to the Texas Hill Country. Creeks, Rivers and Springs are recharged and gushing, baby bluebonnets are coming on strong along the backroads in the Texas Hill Country! Spring 2016 COULD be one of those "
Once in a Lifetime Wildflower Seasons!"
Life Is Not Measured By the Number of Breaths We Take...
But By the Moments That Take Our Breath Away!
Just to get you forward thinking about spending some
Best Friend time with the Wildflowers... here are some scenes from Wildseed Farms last year... Spring 2015.
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| The Texas State Flower |
Texas Bluebonnet Lupinus Texensis... miracles on the stem! Wildseed Farms has a HUGE collection of Wildflower seeds and mixes. They recently added a Pollinator Mix to their catalog.
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| Miles and Miles of Texas Bluebonnets |
Seems like us humans have been a little too slap happy with all the concrete and impervious cover and we forgot to leave some of Creation wild and abundant with native forage for the pollinator species, like birds, bees, butterflies, humming birds and bats. Their habitat has disappeared under parking lots and office buildings many pollinators are suffering. Particularly, migratory species that depend on finding forage to sustain their long journeys. And, if the pollinators are disappearing... it's not going to be good for us, since they are responsible for pollinating most of our favorite fruits, vegetables and nuts.
Each one of us should dedicate a little, or a lot! of our outdoor space to pollinator gardens! With more flowers in the world we would ALL be healthier and happier!
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it
hitched to everything else in the Universe.
- John Muir
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| Go Out and Plant a Meadow! |
The BEST things about Wildseed Farms, if you've never planted a seed, or plant, or planned a garden... are the WOW-Factor Walking Trails, Wildflower Fields and Demonstration Gardens. They are literally like "Living Instruction Manuals" on how to create a beautiful and inspirational space in your backyard, or back forty!
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| Butterfly Picnic in Progress |
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| Red Corn Poppies |
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| WOW-Factor Gardens at Wildseed Farms |
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| Fields Where Scarlet Poppies Run... |
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| Fields of Flanders Poppies |
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| Inspiration! Amazement! Awe! Thanks for Beauty! |
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| Golden Cosmos in a Texas Summer Rain |
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| Cosmos... petals of sunlight! |
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| One of Many... in a Field of Golden Sunlight |
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| Real TREASURE! |
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