I know you will all miss me tomorrow and Wed. I'm taking the boys to Austin to visit relatives AND go to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Research Center. I have wanted to go for years, but never got around to it. I checked out the website today, http://www.wildflower.org/
Sounds pretty cool. I wonder if I can even find the great little nursery I used to go to 20 years ago off of Bee Cave Road? Probably can't even find the road. Well, I'm taking the digital camera, so hopefully will have some great photos to post.

Carolyn, I went a couple of years ago to Wildflower Research Center....I'm going to refrain from commenting until you go. Would love to know someone else's opinion.

We went to Granbury and other places west of Ft. Worth yesterday in that heavenly cool-front weather. Wildflowers blooming there were the standing cypress, wild white poppies, liatris, thistle, Mexican hat daisy and assstd coreopsis. We walked a farmer's stone river bank to spot dinosaur tracks - found about 20 or 30 and the ancient horse rush plant, survivor of the dino era, was appropriately growing along side.

Maggie! Your company is NEVER going to leave if we keep spoiling them with this weather and YOU with the fun trips! So, did you come home with horse rush plant? Sounds like a bamboo-like plant but there's always those pots with lava sand...

If Maggie is talking horsetails Hippuris somethingorother, then it belongs with the Japanese Knotweed and Bindweed, lovely to look at, but not in your garden Gail, assuming you have a garden. ;-)

Yes horsetails, but we must get the same books ;-) Terry, mine labels it as Equisetum trachyodon. Some had been ripped out of the earth by the storm's roaring rise and where strewn about, so I rescued them. :) and will try to get them going in pot. I had figured that anything surviving since dino days would be a thug in the garden. Also, was thinking they would be great in a sunken pot in a pond GAIL.
Wouldn't be surprized if nutgrass is as old. (as horsetails, not Gail)