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On 4/11/2025 at 12:20 PM, McFly said:

Scanned it with PictureThis app and it says common wormwood.

PlantNet is another good app for scanning and identifying.  I'll take a pict or two today and post some wildflowers we have in the yard.

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On 4/8/2025 at 1:18 PM, TPCJ007 said:

Best stuff to put on my lawn right now? Austin, with mostly St Augustine and some kind of other stuff, maybe Bermuda.

Pre emergent, IMO. By far the one thing, that helps all season. I like prodiamine 65 wdg but I'm there are tons of others. 

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Filing in low spots on a 2 yo Bermuda lawn with topsoil.  About 1/2 acre is the portion I'm messing with right now. Mostly the front yard and some spots on the sides where the sprinkler lines are.  I have a zero turn and was contemplating a drag behind over a rake.   

Grass is cut to 1" right now and that's about as short as I can get it.  

Tow behind or rake for 4 yards of topsoil this round?

 

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2 minutes ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

Filing in low spots on a 2 yo Bermuda lawn with topsoil.  About 1/2 acre is the portion I'm messing with right now. Mostly the front yard and some spots on the sides where the sprinkler lines are.  I have a zero turn and was contemplating a drag behind over a rake.   

Grass is cut to 1" right now and that's about as short as I can get it.  

Tow behind or rake for 4 yards of topsoil this round?

 

Depends on how fast you want to do it and if you have free labor. The end result should be the same.

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Kinda forgot...here are a couple of what currently is blooming.

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We have:  Indian blankets, Indian paintbrush, Blue Bonnets, Black Eye Susan, Wine Cups, Morning Glory, Prairie Phlox, 2 types of Coreopsis, Mexican Petunia, Evening Primrose in the pictures.  Stuff not yet in bloom Lantana, Prairie Catchfly Gentian, Blazing Prairie Star, Canna, Some red spider lily thing, Passion Flower, Widow's Tears, Zinnia, Sunflowers (the smaller ones), Purple Heart, Mexican Hat and Rose Moss.  There's probably more but you get the idea.  

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11 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Kinda forgot...here are a couple of what currently is blooming.

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We have:  Indian blankets, Indian paintbrush, Blue Bonnets, Black Eye Susan, Wine Cups, Morning Glory, Prairie Phlox, 2 types of Coreopsis, Mexican Petunia, Evening Primrose in the pictures.  Stuff not yet in bloom Lantana, Prairie Catchfly Gentian, Blazing Prairie Star, Canna, Some red spider lily thing, Passion Flower, Widow's Tears, Zinnia, Sunflowers (the smaller ones), Purple Heart, Mexican Hat and Rose Moss.  There's probably more but you get the idea.  

Any tips on the bluebonnets? We planted a some a few years back and they never bloomed. 

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I gave it the ole college try today. Spread 3 bags of mulch and about 60 pounds of fertilizer on the yard. I have to put 5 gallons of water on some new live oaks for the next 10 months, so hopefully brief, daily waterings will get my yard through the summer. 

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Yard work list is getting smaller. Detached some last month and  dropped slow release fertilizer.  I rented an aerator last week and spread 80 lbs of lime. Just had 1.5" of rain yesterday, perfect timing. 

See how that does but I do need to add some K-Mag.

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20 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Any tips on the bluebonnets? We planted a some a few years back and they never bloomed. 

I have tried a couple of times myself to 'em to go without much luck.  I tried digging live blooming plants and putting them in the yard.  No go.  I tried container seeding.  No go.  I tried planting to the yard. No go.  This time around (late October or early November) I went with container planting where I barely knicked the husk (you want to expose the underlying seed) around the seed with a Exacto knife.  I also soaked seeds overnight, and I went with seeds straight to the dirt. When nature rained on the yard, I watered the seeds.  All three methods produced seedlings.  But weird weather (unexpected cold spells) was an issue.  Some plants managed to survive, but I think it should have been more. As you can see in the pictures BB's will come up with 2 round leaves, then start producing the pointed leaves.  So, now you can know what to look for in the spring when working in your flower beds.  I hope I can get some volunteers to come back off what I planted.  But I'll try seeds one more time.  Our master plan was to get the back yard established and then begin to move different types to the front.  Currently the front yard has only Indian paintbrush. Once, they start dying back I'll move some Black Eye Susan's, Indian blankets, Prairie Phlox, Buttercups and Coreopsis to the front.  Maybe next year, they'll do their thing.  I think the snow along with weird spring weather held some stuff back.   For whatever reason the sunflowers aren't doing much.  Finally got 2 to bloom out, but the rest of 'em aren't in any hurry to do much. 

Planting Bluebonnets

BTW, I got my seeds from Ebay seller (seedjet) out of Washington St.  Weird.  Our local HEB had BB's for sale in containers this spring, so you can try that also. 

Whatever you do, take pictures and don't give up.  

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19 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I gave it the ole college try today. Spread 3 bags of mulch and about 60 pounds of fertilizer on the yard. I have to put 5 gallons of water on some new live oaks for the next 10 months, so hopefully brief, daily waterings will get my yard through the summer. 

I planted some new oaks a few years ago and used a tree gator to get them through the first few seasons.

wrap it around the tree, fill, wait ... fill, wait ... fill, wait ... eventually the tree is OK without extra water.

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19 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Any tips on the bluebonnets? We planted a some a few years back and they never bloomed. 

Back in my nursery days I remember we'd tell people to put the seeds in the freezer to crack the outer shell. Don't remember how long that took.

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43 minutes ago, McFly said:

Back in my nursery days I remember we'd tell people to put the seeds in the freezer to crack the outer shell. Don't remember how long that took.

Never heard that, but I know the germination rate is low.  According to this article, don't expect much more than about 30 percent.  I did a quick search on seed freezing.

Master Naturalist shares steps to growing bluebonnets - 101 Highland Lakes

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Bluebonnets have a low germination rate, I think I read that it's about 20%.  I planted about a 1/4 acre plot about 12 years ago with I think 6 lbs of seed.  Half of them I froze overnight, put them in a bowl and poured boiling water on to weaken the seed case for the initial couple of years.  I shallow scratched the soil and just spread them out.  After that I let nature take its course.  However, you have to let them go until the seed pod bursts, so I usually don't mow them until around July 4th.  This year the crop was exceedingly poor with the lack of rain in the November-February time frame.  When the weather cooperates, it looks like a big bluebonnet carpet.  They don't like fertilizing or much else done to them.  Even the bluebonnets at the Lady Bird Center weren't as good as usual this year and they water them.

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