Back in the spring after touring gardens all around Austin for
Gardens on Tour sponsored by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center I headed over to see the wildflower center gardens. I hadn't been there for a while--since they first opened which was back in the mid-1990's and the admission to the gardens was included in the tour ticket. I arrived with the heat turned up to high, the sun high in the sky, and facing a bit of garden tour fatigue with just about an hour and a half to go before closing time. After a fairly quick tour with equally quick photos I headed home. Over the next week I posted the five gardens from the tour and planned to get back to the wildflower center photos later.
Now is later isn't it? It's fun to go back in time and see how pretty the gardens looked that day. Perhaps it's the faded brown of late summer putting things in perspective but the gardens looked better than I thought at the time. Wildflower Wednesday is this week and why not start the week off with a visit to the place which claims
wildflower.org as its web address.
