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Post by marklemon on Jun 9, 2007 14:28:31 GMT -5
As I near the completion of my albatross, er, I mean my massive 3-D model of the compound that has utterly consumed my existence for the last three months, I am confronted by the question of the surrounding plant life.
Here's my question:
At what time of year, as specifically as is known, do the Texas wildflowers (ie: Bluebonnets, etc) BEGIN to bloom?
Any help from you Texans (or botanists) out there would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Mark
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Post by Herb on Jun 9, 2007 16:58:14 GMT -5
Why Mark, I'm no botantist, but that's downright easy. Generally late March some begin to bloom with the best blooms usually in mid April then fading fast - obviously weather dependent, however.
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Post by marklemon on Jun 9, 2007 17:24:28 GMT -5
Thanks Herb,
I wasn't sure, but late Feb, early March seemed a little early for blooming flowers, even in Texas..
Mark
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Post by Herb on Jun 9, 2007 17:44:20 GMT -5
Now Mark, we did see a couple of Bluebonnets last March on our trip to Aqua Dulce, but that was South of the Nueces and only an isolated flower or two - not the vast fields of Blue that you'll see a month later.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 10, 2007 19:54:34 GMT -5
Also, Mark, remember that there were fallow fields outside the walls. I think George Nelson's paintings are good representations, and pretty on the nail as to locations and angles of furrows relative to aceqias. For "The Alamo"(2004), Michael Corenblith did research on what veggies would have been probable for San Antonio de Bexar in 1835-36. During construction of the sets, the art department actually planted crops around the Alamo and Bexar (great pre-production lunches), even though the fields were finally void of crops during the battle filming. Still gave the right *look.*
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