For some, including allergy-sufferers and poet T.S. Eliot, “April is the cruelest month.” Not so, however, for those who love wildflowers.
Even though the area’s ongoing drought hasn’t yet been pierced to its root, the annual color-burst of wildflowers which marks the arrival of spring in the Hill Country has emerged in full force, and Hardberger Park is celebrating with a free Saturday morning nature walk as a part of its ongoing Fourth Saturday event series.
Led by Jerry Morrisey of the Sierra Club and the Native Plant Society of Texas, the amble through the park’s trails and Demonstration Garden will highlight the wildflowers and native plants which color in the Texas spring, ranging from lemon mint and prairie verbena to purple coneflowers, Texas bluebells and, of course, bluebonnets.
This walk is for all those who, like Lady Bird Johnson, want to “keep alive our experience with the flowering earth” in a time of climate crisis.
Keep in mind, though, it is April, so participants should bring drinking water, wear closed-toed shoes and dress for the weather, which may or may not include April showers.
Free, 8-10 a.m. Saturday, April 26, Phil Hardberger Park, Urban Ecology Center Classroom, 8400 NW Military Highway, (210) 492-7472, philhardbergerpark.org.
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