April 02, 2021
Pop into the restroom at Barton Springs Nursery, and also you’ll discover you’re not alone in there. An emotionless girl sporting a t-shirt that speaks for all of us — All I want is extra crops — frolics in a tub crammed with fake succulents and fiddle-leaf figs.

Even the showerhead is “planted up,” with an enormous fake tillandsia standing in for a sprig of water. So intelligent!

Like each single particular person in Austin, I’ve been making near-daily visits to nurseries in quest of crops to fill holes within the backyard and exchange freeze-blasted container plantings. It’s a loopy scene at each nursery, with strains of vehicles making an attempt to get in and crops flying off the cabinets as quick as supply vans usher in new ones. However if you happen to can go early on a weekday, you’ll discover fewer crowds and a much less frenzied ambiance and may take a second to get pleasure from springtime sights like this, a surprising ‘Tangerine Magnificence’ crossvine in full bloom at Barton Springs Nursery’s entrance.

Lovely blooms!

Even within the car parking zone you’ll discover little surprises, like a spiderwort that’s pushed up by means of