animaux wrote in
:
I also
was able to harvest about two pounds of seed, which, right
before the next planned rain will be spread out back in the
gardens.

JEEZE!!! That is one heck of a lot of seed.

I could never get Indian paintbrush to get going, so I bought
plants at The Natural Gardener last spring and planted them.
Maybe now they'll reseed and I'll see those interspersed with
the L.texensis.

I was planning to buy bluebonnet plants in the fall, but now I
guess I don't have to. I want a whole patch, but I guess it will
come.

I wasn't
aware that Indian painbrush was or is a parasitic plant. That's
why it does so well with bluebonnets. The nodules of nitrogen
found on the bluebonnets supply the Indian paintbrush with
needed nitrogen. They are parasitic and sometimes come in 4
inch post with what looks like weeds, but they are put there by
the growers to supply what they need to flourish. In the
catalog, they say not to remove the grassy looking weeds when
planting.

Cool. I had no idea--but then, I didn't even see an Indian
paintbrush till this year.

yours sound great,
Victoria

It's a beginning, but it's ONE plant. And will hardly give two
pounds of seed.

In fact, it will probably go to see after I leave town, so I'll
have to trust nature to do its thing.

Karen