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[Worth1]

Originally Posted by JRinPA

I noticed right after I started growing beans that they followed right hand rule...but of course they grow the other way below the equator...don't they? Just like whirlpools!

I think they grow the same direction.
But there are a few vines maybe a french bean of some sort that grows left handed.

Now here is the deal they have been making wooden screw treads since before BC.
It has been suggested that the vines that grow on tree trunks and cause the trunk to take the shape of the vine was a template for cutting wooden screw threads.
Sort of pre-made by nature so to speak.
Was nature or god telling us, "look folks make this thing and it will help revolutionize the world."

Next if this is so about the vine, is that the reason we have right handed threads for the most part?

[SpookyShoe]

It's about that time!

[DonDuck]

Is it Bluebonnet? We don't get much in North Texas. We get more Indian Paintbrush and Sunflowers. We have had a lot of moisture this early spring, so the wild flowers should be great. If you had posted a photo of Prostrate Spurge (weed), I would have recognized it instantly.

[SpookyShoe]

It's a bluebonnet. There's a small vacant lot I drive by often and bluebonnets were already starting to flower. It's not uncommon to see Indian Blanket (Gaillardia) and Indian Paint Brush with them.

[Worth1]

The bluebonnets have been growing in front of my place all winter.
My late wife and I put the first seeds out together.

[SpookyShoe]

Originally Posted by Worth1

The bluebonnets have been growing in front of my place all winter.
My late wife and I put the first seeds out together.

That's nice. How far along are they? The Aggies have developed a maroon (of course} one. I've seen it before in nurseries, but not this year.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by SpookyShoe

That's nice. How far along are they?

Haven't looked in a week but last I saw they were about like yours.
I keep spreading seeds around up and down the shallow bar ditch.
The mowing stops as soon as a see them sprout.

[salix]

I have only seen pictures of your bluebonnets 'at a distance', so to speak. Are they a type of lupine?

[DonDuck]

]I've driven highways with blue bonnets covering the landscape on both sides of the road. It is a beautiful scene, but I have also seen families stop and pose their children sitting down in the flowers. I want to scream "get your kids out of the flowers" because the fairly short span of time the flowers are blooming is the same time rattle snakes are coming out of hibernation and are very active. It has always seemed to me, the part of Texas where blue bonnets flourish is also the part of Texas where rattle snakes flourish.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by salix

I have only seen pictures of your bluebonnets 'at a distance', so to speak. Are they a type of lupine?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupinus_texensis

[salix]

Thanks Worth, I should have looked that up myself instead of lazily throwing out an easily asked/answered question.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by salix

Thanks Worth, I should have looked that up myself instead of lazily throwing out an easily asked/answered question.

No worries I like answering questions.

[Worth1]

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[Zana]

Originally Posted by Worth1

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Did you find a new toy, Worth? . That is so cool!!!

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Zana

Did you find a new toy, Worth? . That is so cool!!!

Nope not mine it is behind a building.
an old Seagrave ladder truck