Bluebonnet

Question: In Austin, TX, where is a good place to take bluebonnet pictures away from a highway right now? I am looking for a place in Austin, TX, to take Bluebonnet pictures. For the safety of my family, I prefer not to park on the side of a highway. Thanks!

Answer: Towards where I live in Johnson City, Texas. It is only 47 miles from Austin and you might enjoy our quaint little town. Home of LBJ. Cheers.

Question: How do you collect bluebonnet seeds pods? We have bluebonnets growing in our yard, and we would like to plant them in other places. : )

Answer: Wait until the seed pods turn brown and collect them. The seeds will look like peas. Soak in water overnight before planting. OR dig the ones up out of your yard and transplant them. Give them a good drink of root stimulator (fertilome makes a good product.) or Miracle gro to prevent transplant shock.

Question: How do i find the Bluebonnet Cafe recipes on the internet? Im trying to fing the recipe thats in this cook book. It is jamaican pork tenderloin.

Answer: here it is.. Jamaican Pork Tenderloin 1 lb lean pork tenderloins 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon bottled chopped jalapeno peppers 1 teaspoon fresh garlic, smashed 1 teaspoon fresh gingerroot, minced 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice vegetable oil cooking spray 1/4 cup mango chutney (optional) trim fat from pork. Combine lime juice and next 5 ingredients in a large heavy duty, zip top plastic bag. Add pork; seal bag, and marinate in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Remove pork from bag, reserving marinade. Coat grill rack with cooking spray; place on grill over medium coals. Place pork on rack and grill covered, 30 minutes or until meat thermometer registers 160 degrees, turning and basting pork occasionally with reserved marinade. Cut into 1/4 inch thick slices. Serve with chutney. 1¼ hours 15 min prep 4 servings

Question: How do I make a metal garden stake that looks like a lilly, or maybe even a bluebonnet? I would like this to last a few months at least. I planted bluebonnets in the local cemetry, but the caretaker tends to forget & mow things down, so I wanted a discreet marker for the various spots where bluebonnets are comming up. Any ideas that don't require a welder?

Answer: If you get some green gardening tape you can attach a synthetic flower or two to the top of a rod.

Question: What type of leaf venation does the Texas Bluebonnet have? What type of leaf venation does the Texas Bluebonnet have? As in parallel/pinnate/palmate?

Answer: This plant is a dicot and has reticulate venation . The type of leaf is PALMATE . click on the link below for a very good picture of the plant = then enlarge it by clicking on the 4 arrows in the lower corner on the picture . http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachmen… you will notice that each leaflet has only one midrib and reticulate venation . There are five such leaflets arising from a common point . So it is PALMATE LEAF . Any of several flowering plants, including the Texas bluebonnet (Lupinus subcarnosus), a North American annual legume native to the plains of Texas. About 1 ft (0.3 m) tall, it bears silky-haired Palmate compound leaves and clusters of purplish blue flowers marked in the centre with white or yellow. In the spring it covers immense areas in southern and western Texas like a blue carpet. It is one of the most popular wildflowers of Texas. In Scotland the name is given to the bluebottle (Centaurea cyanus) and to the blue scabious, or devil's bit (Succisa pratensis). http://www.answers.com/topic/bluebonnet

Question: How would I go about finding an Oil and Gas Company called BlueBonnet, Inc.? BlueBonnet, Inc. holds a Oil and Gas lease on my grandmothers land. We cannot find out anything about this company.Does anyone know where I might find any information on this particular Company?

Answer: Google

Question: Who are the top three Bluebonnet artists of Texas? Hints: One was born in England. One is of Mexican heritage. One painted historic scenes of the Alamo battle. All three are famous museum quality artists with the highest of acolades. Do not list contemporaries, the three I want are all Dead.

Answer: Robert W. Wood, born in England Julian Onderdonk, father of bluebonnet paintings Porfirio Salinas, Hispanic decent I add a fourth simply because she painted a picture of a pitcher of bluebonnets that helped the Texas legislature choose the bluebonnet as the state flower. She was Mode H. Walker. This was the best I could do. They are all deceased and are all ranked the top bluebonnet painters in Texas (with the exeption of Mode Walker, but she does hold a place in their hearts).

Question: Where can I purchase Bluebonnet seeds in the Baytown, TX area?

Answer: Mackinney's Garden Supply.

Question: What are examples of structural and behavioral adaptations of bluebonnet flowers?

Answer: Bluebonnets are species of Lupin. Bluebonnet seeds look like little pebbles ... birds will eat them thinking they are the pebbles they need to digest their foods (birds often have small stones in their crop to help grind up food). The seeds a very hard and some are not destroyed by the digestive process. Therefore, the birds spread the seed in their droppings. Bluebonnets are one of Texas’ toughest wildflower because they can resist droughts and freezes, and because they can grow in any soil type in Texas. It was believed that bluebonnets removed the nutrients from the soil, making it dry and barren, when in fact it was quite the opposite. Bluebonnets are part of the legume family and fix nitrogen, so they can put nitrogen back into the soil, fertilizing it.

Question: I have 64 Texas Bluebonnet seeds and I don't have any space to sow them, what should I do with them? Should I throw then in the trash? I only needed 20 seeds, which I already sowed in my tray.

Answer: send them back to the wild at the side of the highway!!!!! trash them?... that's the state flower isn't it??

Question: How long does bluebonnet's stay alive? I was wondering how long bluebonnets stayed alive. I heard different things and I just want a solid answer. Thanks! :)

Answer: They only bloom in early spring. Here's the complete "skinny" from an expert: http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/flowers/blu…

Question: So many beautiful flowers in the UK, what is the closest equivalent to the Texas Bluebonnet in Spring?

Answer: The Texas Bluebonnet is a type of lupine. There are many lupines available in the UK but I don't know if any look like the bluebonnet. Have you tried planting bluebonnets? Don't know how well they will do there, they might not get enough light there & might get too much water but it might be woth a try.

Question: i am trying to find out about a ww2 military pin that looks like a ladies bluebonnet? The pin is light blue with a darker blue band around it and it has some sort of jewel on the top of the band.

Answer: several possible thing's USO pin Nursing assistance or Volintree's pin or Mothers pin

Question: Anyone have a recipe for the dinner rolls served at Bluebonnet Cafe Marble falls, Texas?

Answer: The only thing I found: http://www.southernfoodways.com/blt_reci…

Question: Are there any flowers that look like the Texas Bluebonnet?

Answer: Hi, the closest looking flower that I know of is Grape hyacinths. the site below shows you a picture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape_hyaci… I just found one more flower similar to a Texas Bluebonnet, called a Blue Larkspur. http://www.babiesonline.com/flowersbirth…

Question: I am looking for a bluebonnet cross stich pattern.? I would like to do all of theTexas wildflowers, cross stich patterns.

Answer: Try one this: http://www.birdcrossstitch.com/CrossStit… or Try one of these sites: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwi…

Question: Where are the best bluebonnet places in the metroplex?

Answer: there are lots of blue bonnett patches in the area around kaufman and east to greenville tx.

Question: When does bluebonnet season end? I have a 2 month old baby and I would like to get a picture of her in a bluebonnet field. I'm not native to Texas, so I'm not sure how long it lasts and I don't want to miss my chance. Thanks!

Answer: Nature is a law unto itself, and predictions are risky, to say the least. Officially, the peak bloom of bluebonnets in Central Texas is in mid-April. They are winter annuals, with the first green rosettes appearing in January, and earliest blooms sometimes in late February. As you no doubt know, 2007 was a banner year for bluebonnets, with rains the previous Fall and again in the late Winter and early Spring, all just the right time. We had a moist, cool Spring and early Summer, and the blooms not only started early, they were profuse and lingered late. In 2008, they seemed to vanish. West of Austin, there was so little rain that wildflowers were few and far between, with bluebonnets not even appearing in many places. In Austin, it wasn't much better, and we were recommending that people wanting to see fields of blue should go east toward Brenham, but even there, they felt the unsatisfactory conditions. Since we have been in an extreme drought in Central Texas for more than a year, we fear that the results are going to be much the same. Possibly, if we get some substantial rains soon, some of the season might be saved, but bluebonnets really depend on Fall rains and a period of cold winter to develop and germinate.

Question: can someone give me a summary on the book Legend of the Bluebonnet?

Answer: Long ago when Native Americans lived, there was a Native American girl whose family died. But the girl and her tribe were alive. The girl was called "She-Who-Is-Alone." The spirits were mad and something caused them to make a drought. So the whole tribe wondered what they had to do to stop the drought and let rain fall. So then in the night the whole tribe and She-Who-Is-Alone came out and talked to the spirits from high above. The spirits said that one Native American had to burn their greatest posession. No one would give up anything. Only one person did.

Question: In Dallas, TX, where is a good place to take bluebonnet pictures away from a highway right now?

Answer: Depends on where you live, if you go south you can get lots of pictures off Loop 12 and the freeway that goes southwest toward I-20 south of Illinois. There are also several good areas on I-20 east and west from that location.