It’s a big yahoo, for the red, white & blue, the colors of the Texas flag. The Dallas Arboretum’s annual “Dallas Blooms Festival” has a “Star of Texas” theme. The garden will feature shapes such as stars, cowboy hats, covered wagons & cattle, as well as over 400,00 blooming bulbs. This Saturday & Sunday & weekends through April 13, visitors can watch trick ropers, mingle with Texas Patriot dressed, people who look like(Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Sam Houston, and more.) There will be hoedowns, Texas cuisine, carriage rides, a “Little Britches” Rodeo for the children. For more information, call 1-214-515-6500
Just before the big rains came, I notice round pods growing on my domestic verbenia, and after the rain, I looked outside the next morning, there they were……..all purple and beautiful. I got this start from the same woman, that I got that star bloomed, cactus. This is the first purple verbenia, I’ve ever had, usually I have the red & pink, but I haven’t seem much of it in the last few years.
I bought them at a local nursery. Their not getting on good yet, just getting adjusted to the soil, and then the bad rains came and almost drowned them. Here’s a small patch of radishes, that have been up for about 2 weeks now. 
I plant small plantings of radishes every 2 weeks, in order to keep fresh radishes growing during the spring. The one’s above are white radishes, and these are the one’s planted about a month ago. 
….The weather has really taken it’s toll on the garden again. It’s still early, we will see how well it fares this year.
This was last Sunday, when we stopped by a local city park in Dallas, and if you look real close you can see the black duck with 2 small yellow babys. We went around to the other side of this island and found that this duck wasn’t the mother. The mother was still sitting on the nest behind the big rock on the bottom right, hatching more babies.
This was the fountain that was out in the center of the pond/lake.
As you can see this is a plum tree in full bloom. Fitting place for a plum tree, it will no doubt give the birds some fruit later. If you look, behind it is another plum tree, only a little smaller.
I found two “dogwood trees” about to burst open with these huge buds.
This is the spillway, for the overflow, people trusted it not to overflow on them. So, I guess we had a nice stroll, while I took pictures. Spring is bursting out all over.
I was driving along a street in my neighborhood and notice the trees in bloom. This one seems to be the Fruitless Crabapple. They are always beautiful. I see they are everywhere in the yards, where people have planted them, for the beautiful spring show.
This one was along the side of the road in a ditch area, where other wild trees, had made their growth. It’s very possible this white flowering tree is a “wild plum tree”. Wild plum trees grow almost anywhere, here. They are few but stand out just like the redbud trees, during spring.
If you’ll notice down towards the bottom of the picture there is a small pink dot. That will be a bloom soon.
At least it may not get a freeze on the new blooms, if it takes longer. I sure could use some good fresh fruit this year.
It was so pretty while it lasted, but it didn’t last very long. After the sun came up it quickly melted and was gone by 10am. 
