Rewilding My Lot

Bluebonnets (Lupinus texensis) are annuals and therefore need to reseed each year. Last year I scattered seed in the fall. However, given how many plants I have here now, I should not need to buy seed again if I let these seed themselves. The easiest way to do that is just to leave the plants alone until the seeds have dropped in their own time. (Eventually, this year’s plants will be mown down to return their nutrients to the soil.)

Individual Bluebonnet flower stalks apparently don’t last very long, because I am already seeing seed pods form on the plants that bloomed first. However, each plant has several flower stalks, and there are also some younger plants that haven’t even formed flower buds yet, so I should have Bluebonnet flowers on display for several weeks yet.