Spring Fling: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Yesterday more than 30 garden bloggers from around the country converged on Austin for a day of celebrating gardens around town and connecting with other students of nature, gardening, and writing–It was the first ever Garden Bloggers’ Spring Fling! Thank you to Pam of Digging, Diana of Sharing Nature’s Garden, Bonnie of Kiss of Sun, and Melissa of Zanthan Gardens for organizing an inspiring event.
I plan to journal about the event in three or four separate posts. In this first post, I’d like to share some images from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, which we Spring Flingers visited on Saturday morning.
Bluebonnet
Pink evening primrose with bee
Sculpture in the garden
Texas vervain
Havard agaves
Sotol
Next Spring Fling post: Lunch at Nuevo Leon, with a talk by Tom Spencer
April 6th, 2008 at 4:07 pm CDT
You got some nice photos there Brianna. I especially like the sotol, and that you found the bee. I still haven’t looked at my photos. Enjoyed talking with you.
I really enjoyed meeting you, too, Bill. Can’t wait to see your photos of the event!
-Brianna
April 6th, 2008 at 5:37 pm CDT
I would so love to have been able to attend Spring Fling. Perhaps another year. I look forward to seeing more great photos from the gathering.
I hope you get the opportunity to visit Austin sometime, too, Nancy. It was wonderful having so many other garden bloggers here this weekend.
I see buds over at Soliloquy–Happy Spring!
-Brianna
April 6th, 2008 at 7:07 pm CDT
Brianna,
Such nice close-ups of the flowers, Bill is spot on…the bee shot is perfect. Will stop by later to see what you captured at lunch!
Gail
It was wonderful to meet you, Gail. Thanks for stopping by.
-Brianna
April 7th, 2008 at 9:56 am CDT
Nice shots of the Texas natives, Brianna. And it was a good to meet you finally. Kind of weird for those of us in Austin - we will definitely have to do it more often here in town. Can’t wait to see the rest of your posts.
Happy to have met you, too, Diana. I enjoyed chatting with you at Pam’s happy hour.
And I’d love to see the other Austin garden bloggers more than once a year, too.
-Brianna
April 7th, 2008 at 3:19 pm CDT
Great photos- I wonder how many of us took a photo of that sculpture? (I not only took a photo, I wrote down the name of the piece & the sculptor, I liked it so much.) It was wonderful to meet you - all you Austin bloggers were the best hosts!
Oh, I’d love to have the name of the sculpture and the artist. I’ll email you the request.
I’m happy you enjoyed Austin. Thanks for visiting.
-Brianna
April 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm CDT
I especially liked the photo of the yuccas, grasses and sculpture as well. It was a splendid morning for visiting the Wildflower Center.
April 10th, 2008 at 10:47 am CDT
Oh, I want a greenhouse so badly! And there’s not room here. But I can enjoy others through pictures like this online. I guess I’m somewhat like these two. I do what I have to around the house and the outside world, volunteer, take care of all the pets (a growing community), and garden. And garden some more. It is heaven on earth!
Brenda
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 am CDT
Love all the pics but my lightbulb flickered brightly when I saw your garden sculpture. I want to try to do something similar along one of my mountain trails!
May 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm CDT
Very disappointed on entry price and limited space of garden. I thought the garden is way overpriced for its small area of display of plants