The first signs of Spring in south Texas area the blooms on red bud trees and mountain laurels. Through most of the year, the red bud is a small tree that sticks to the background.....but it's the first to bloom in late winter. Next is the beautiful Texas mountain laurel. I think the purple blossoms smell like grape kool-aide. Once you have a mountain laurel you will always have baby mountain laurels from the seed pods that drop to the ground later in the year. Fortunately they are easy to pull out from the ground.
The average last freeze date in San Antonio is March 3. Guess what, it got down to 26 degrees at our house on March 3....just like the average. We seem to get a warm up to the mid 80s and then an arctic blast hits us again. I'm definitely holding off on planting my spring garden. But the winter veggies are still so bountiful. This week I harvested the red cabbage and made the best German sweet and sourer slaw.
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