It's Wildflower Wednesday when bloggers are invited by Gail at
Clay and Limestone to post on wildflowers in our gardens. I'm pushing the rules a bit this month with flowers from a local park. On Monday I joined members of the
Gardening Volunteers of South Texas for a wildflower walk in
Phil Hardberger Park led by Wendy Leonard, park naturalist for the City of San Antonio.
While the masses of wildflowers lining Texas roadways in the spring are legendary, Wendy focused on the smaller flowers growing in restoration areas of the park.
One crowd favorite was the Pincushion Daisy (
Gaillardia suavis). It's a (mostly) petal-less flower with a wonderfully spicy fragrance that lends it another common name of Perfumeballs.
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