Subject: Wildflowers by the road in Tx

From: Bror Fredrik Joensson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 12:23:51 +0200

I'm looking for information about a project where wildflowerseeds were 
planted on the roadsides in Texas. I heard about this when I drove through
Tx last summer and I would like information about authorities
that was involved, publications etc. According to the story Franklin D
Rosevelts wife started this project to make the roadsides more beautiful.

I'm sorry to use up bandwith if this shows out to be a modern myth...

Thanks in forehand!!!

Fredrik Jšnsson

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From: [email-masked] (Monique Reed)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 09:02:29 UNDEFINED

Hello!

>I'm sorry to use up bandwith if this shows out to be a modern myth...

It's no myth, but it was Lyndon B. Johnson's wife, Ladybird, who was a lover 
and advocate of wildflowers.  Largely through her efforts a National 
Wildflower Research Center was founded in Austin, Texas.  The Texas Highway 
Department does indeed plant native wildflowers along the highways--mostly 
Bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrush, Coreopsis, and other very showy species.  
However, the glory of our highways and backroads in spring is due mostly to 
the flowers that come up on their own--hundreds of species in every color you 
can think of.  All they ask for is a little bit of rain and no mowing 'til 
they've finished setting seed.

For more information, you can look at the NWRC's web page at
http://www.wildflower.org/

Monique Reed
Herbarium Botanist
Biology Department
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-3258
(where the roadsides are white, gold, pink, and purple right now!)