DALLAS (AP) _ Experts say Texas should have a colorful spring, with recent rains bringing an abundance of wildflowers.
Damon Waitt is senior botanist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin. He predicts that Texas should be awash in wildflowers by the end of March.
He expects exceptional early and late spring wildflowers in many parts of the state after rains throughout the fall and winter ended drought conditions that persisted in the state since late 2007.
In Brenham, a town of about 14,000 nestled in the rolling hills between Austin and Houston, dozens of the state’s famed bluebonnets made an early appearance this month. Their proud blooms dotted a hillside at a local intersection and stood tall against a snow there earlier this week.