Wildflower fiesta at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

[Pam/Digging]

May 11, 2020

Bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, and other early wildflowers bloomed in solitude this spring at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, which closed in mid-March due to the pandemic and Austin’s shelter-in-place order. Happily, the gardens reopened last weekend to members, who must reserve in advance a specific arrival time on the website. I grabbed a Saturday morning time slot, got my mask and camera ready, and arrived bright and early on reopening day.

Oh, how I’d missed this place! The late spring wildflowers like purple coneflower, firewheel, and thistle look glorious. So I’m going to let the flowers do the talking in this post. Enjoy!

Purple coneflower and a limestone and glass sculpture

Paleleaf yucca

Trumpet creeper

Purple coneflower

Giant coneflower

Thistle

Spineless prickly pear and nolina

Confetti meadow

Standing cypress

American basket flower

Firewheel and thistle meadow

Firewheel

Giant hesperaloe in bloom with agave and yucca

Cholla

Manfreda bloom spikes

Cardinal in flight

Pale purple coneflower

Firewheel meadow with agave and yucca

Firewheel with prickly pear and yucca

Thistle and firewheel

Grassy savanna

Thistle

Firewheel meadow

Brown-eyed Susan

Purple coneflower

I’ll end with the entry kiosk and its wildflowery green roof, and a masked visitor as a sign of the times.

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