Rewilding My Lot

My front yard “wildflower meadow” was seeded last fall with Texas Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis), Indian Blanket aka Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella), and Spotted Beebalm (Monarda punctata). 

The Bluebonnets and Indian Blankets have already grown and are blooming very nicely. I haven’t noticed any Spotted Beebalm yet, but it’s still a few weeks before the expected bloom time.

I recently visited PolliNatives native plant nursery for the first time, and bought a few things that will appear in future posts. (I highly recommend this nursery, which is in Converse, on the east side of San Antonio.)

They didn’t have any Spotted Beebalm, but I was happy to buy a couple of little Horsemint aka Lemon Beebalm (Monarda citriodora) plants to insert into bare spots in the middle of the meadow. Like the other plants in the meadow, I will let them sow their own seeds at the end of the season, hopefully to provide new plants next year without me having to purchase new seed myself (the meadow will be mown during the wintertime).