Showing posts with label flower color: Violet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flower color: Violet. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2020

Texas Native Plants | Violets

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Reference Books:
Ajilvsgi, Geyata, Wildflowers of Texas, Shearer Pub., Fredericksburg, TX, 2003
Correll,D. S.,M. C. Johnston, Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas, 1979
Curry, Mary, North Central Texas Wildflowers, Mary Curry Pub., Decatur, TX, 2015
Diggs, George, Barney Lipscomb, Robert O’Kennon, Shinner’s and Mahler’s   Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas, Austin College and BRIT Publishers, 1999, pages 572-4
Eason, Michael, Wildflowers of Texas, Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2018
Eastman, John, Wildflowers of the Eastern United States, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2014 Enquist, Marshall, Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country, Lone Star Botanical, Austin, Texas, 1987 Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman, Wildflowers of the Western Plains, A Field Guide,  University of TX Press, Austin,1992
Loughmiller, Campbell and Lynn, Texas Wildflowers, A Field Guide, University of TX Press,  Austin, TX, Revised 2006
Martin, Laura C., The Wildflower Meadow Book-A Gardener’s Guide, East Woods Press,  Fast & McMillan Press, Charlotte, NC, 1986
Nieland, Lashara, Willa Finley, Lone Star Wildflowers, A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants,  Texas Tech Univ. Press, Lubbock, TX, 2009
Phillips, Harry R., Growing and Propagating Wildflowers, University of North Carolina Press,  Chapel Hill, 1985 
Reaume, Tom, 620 Wild Plants of North America, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 2009 Steiner, Lynn M., Prairie-Style Gardens, Timer Press, Portland, OR, 2010 Tull, 
Delena, George O. Miller, A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, & Shrubs of Texas,  Gulf Publishing, Houston, 1991 Wills, Mary Motz, Howard Irwin, Roadside Flowers of Texas, Univ. of TX Press, Austin, Texas, 1961

Online sources:
Flora of North America,  floranorthamerica.org 
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center,  wildflower.org 
Master Gardener Program,  wimastergardener.org 
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service,  plants.usda.gov
Native Plants of Central Texas
 
 
 
 
 
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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Design with Color | Violet

Spanish Violet
Grape
Violet
Electric Violet
French Violet
Dark Violet
Vivid Violet
Lavender
African Violet
Chinese Violet
Mauve
Violet (pale-magenta)

Design: Form, Flow, Scale, Texture, Color Inspiration

Spring



Redbud (Cercis Canadensis) splashes of pale-magenta

Promenade at Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois









Iris
My spring garden is richly violet including redbuds, Texas mountain laurel, phlox, iris, and monarda to name a few.


Louisiana Bog Iris




Grape color and scent

Clever use of seasonal color throughout the seasons is used at the Fort Worth Botanical Garden. The Cactus Garden is surrounded by a horseshoe shaped planting of several understory trees. Gracing the entrance is Texas mountain laurel (spring flowering), next is Desert-willow (summer flowering), and forming a back drop to the cactus, an artistic canvas of sunny Retama. The trees are Texas and Mexican (Retama) natives and water-saving.


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Summer




Gomphrena





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Winter








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