Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Flower farm

Yesterday we picked up our friends and drove north to Wildseed Farms. Wildseed Farms is the nation's largest working wildflower seed farm. It's fields are open to the public for viewing and spring is one of the prime time to see lots of flowers.
The Corn Poppies and Texas Bluebonnets were in full bloom. It will not be too long before the giant seed vacuum goes through these fields to harvest the seeds for packaging and sale.
Some of the other types of flowers were just starting to bloom but all were well labled so it was fun to learn the names of some of the flowers we had seen before but not known their names.


In addition to the large fields of flowers, the company operates a an enclosed butterfly exhibit which was fun to see. Inside many varieties of butterflies were fliting from plant to plant. All were close so it we were able to see them easily.
These butterflies were kind enough to sit still for their photos !

Jim enjoyed trying to capture them in photos and we all had a good time watching them.

If you like to order seeds directly from the grower or would like to look at Wildseed Farms web site to see lots of pretty flower pictures go to : www.wildseedfarms.com