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#3555537 - 04/13/12 08:35 AM
Texas Bluebonnets....
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The Texas Bluebonnet is the State flower. They are protected, so if they grow in an area along the side of the road, it is illegal to disturb that area while they are blooming. Our highways are lined with these, and it is stunning when they are in full bloom. I didn't take this picture, but it was taken an hour south of Dallas the first of this month. 
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#3555544 - 04/13/12 08:44 AM
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Beautiful. It truly is amazing how nature can produce such fine things.
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#3555595 - 04/13/12 10:01 AM
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Loc: Canada
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We have a similar thing up in Northern Ontario with Lupins. 
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#3555599 - 04/13/12 10:05 AM
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Gorgeous pic! I'm embarrassed to say that I don't remember right now what the Florida state flower is. Lol.
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#3555627 - 04/13/12 11:04 AM
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Come on California, show us that green state flower that you like to grow!
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#3555634 - 04/13/12 11:12 AM
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Registered: 12/24/01
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Come on California, show us that green state flower that you like to grow! Registered Warrants?
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#3555669 - 04/13/12 12:09 PM
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Loc: St. John's , NF, Canada
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Beautiful.....and Paul beat me to the punch with his post on Lupins 
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#3555957 - 04/13/12 09:58 PM
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Come on California, show us that green state flower that you like to grow! Not everyone is licensed!
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#3555958 - 04/13/12 10:06 PM
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Registered: 04/15/02
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Looks like lavender fields in France, thanks for sharing.
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#3555981 - 04/13/12 11:30 PM
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Beautiful.
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#3556024 - 04/14/12 01:14 AM
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Those are pretty flowers.
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#3556037 - 04/14/12 02:05 AM
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Loc: Voca, Texas
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After the horribly dry year we had last year, it's amazing how the countryside has turned blue in the last few weeks. My pastures are seas of blue right now. I'll try to post a pic or two over the weekend.
That's a great picture, Bill. It really shows Texas in it's spring-time best.
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#3556127 - 04/14/12 09:44 AM
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Loc: NW of Austin, Tx
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We arrive in Tx on Tuesday. Hopefully they will still be in full bloom when we get there.
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#3556200 - 04/14/12 12:51 PM
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Just drove through Texas on US287 this past week, the wildflowers (not just bluebonnets) were beautiful. Except for the metro areas, Texas is a trucker's dream.
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#3556236 - 04/14/12 02:22 PM
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Beautiful pic Bill.....thanks for posting. We have a similar type of flower here in Northumberland....the Bluebell which is also a protected type.    All sorts round my way, some beautiful red poppy fields too, always make me feel a bit wistful when I see them though....as I like many others lost a family member in the Great War, beautiful as they are. Those "Lupins" look very similar to "Foxglove" here in Blighty Paul, very nice. 
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#3556261 - 04/14/12 03:58 PM
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They're gorgeous, especially if they're mixed in with a field of Indian paintbrushes.
However, we farm kids used to make fun of people who had bluebonnets in their pastures as they generally only grow in very poor soil.
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#3556275 - 04/14/12 05:22 PM
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In my area near Austin, the bluebonnets and other native flowers have been greatly subsumed by the invasive #%&*$# Cabbage. It grows in so thickly that it crowds out the other species.
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