How Texas winter storm could affect 2021 bluebonnets and wildflowers Bluebonnets should be coming back this year. Hope sprung up for an early and abundant wildflower season around Texas when the first beloved bluebonnets of 2021 surprised Houston in January. By mid-February, hope froze to death with the rest of the state. Now that Texas has thawed out and we re back to shorts-weather, the question on every wildflower watcher’s mind is: What ll happen with our bluebonnets? The answer, Texas horticulture experts say, is hard to pinpoint because Winter Storm Uri was such an extreme and unusual weather event. But Texans needn t worry. The state flower is still going to blanket fields, parks, and roadsides this year. We ll just need to be patient, experts say, because their grand entrance could be delayed.
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Icicles coat a citrus tree on Monday, February 15, in Edinburg.
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At Austin’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the bluebonnets are well on their way to blooming but all around them, you’d hardly know that the first day of spring is just two weeks away. “It looks like winter. There’s more brown now than there was before; it was fairly green,” says the center’s director of horticulture, Andrea DeLong-Amaya, referring to the terrain before February’s freeze. After the winter storm brought record low temperatures and encased plants in ice for days on end, she says, “some of the evergreen plants that I’ve never seen turn brown have turned brown.” In the Gardens at Texas A&M University, the scene is equally bleak: “Our creeping fig, butterfly vine, yellow bells, and blue plumbago have all died back to the ground,” says director Michael Arnold, a professor of landscape horticulture. And in Central Texas, certified arborist Maggie Ambro