More Wildflowers

As we were leaving Fredericksburg today, we stopped at Wildseed Farms. On previous days as we were driving by, we saw their huge fields of cultivated wildflowers - flowers in rows and the huge fields of flowers from scattered seed. Their Web site says: "The farm has more than 1,000 cultivated acres in Texas and over 200 acres of wildflower fields at its Hill Country headquarters outside of Fredericksburg."

It is just breathtakingly beautiful. We parked and walked through their shops, their garden plants for sale, and then you reach the fields. As you stroll by it looks like solid color with flowers so dense you can't see the earth. They let you walk in one section of the blue bonnets, stepping carefully between the rows. 

Here are a few photos I took, which really do not do this beautiful place justice. As we continued our drive today to Bryan/College Station, we saw even more roadsides lined with color - reds, blues, yellows, pinks, white. I read somewhere once that the Texas Highway Department is the largest landscape gardener in the world. They scatter tons of wildflower seeds along the roadsides of Texas every year. It is really remarkable.