The Texas Hill Country is a region of south central Texas composed of tall rugged hills broken up by huge granite rocks and boulders. It is located in the very heart of Texas and is romanticized for its beauty and charm. It stretches from just west of downtown Austin to San Antonio’s northern suburbs and encompasses towns with diverse cultures such as Bandera, Fredericksburg, Gruene, Kerrville, Luckenbach, Marble Falls, New Braunfels, and Utopia.

The region is home to every ecosystem known to man. The region is full of gently sloping grass-covered hills and meadows that burst in early spring and summer with wildflowers of all colors, sizes and descriptions. There are also tall, rugged hills sporting plants, flowers, vegetation and animals of many descriptions.

Hill Country wildflowers also bloom abundantly along the highways and narrow state roads of Texas and many visitors simply drive the “Wildflower Highways” enjoying the view.

Bluebonnets are the State Flower of Texas and from middle May to the end of April the gorgeous tall petal-covered and cone-shaped flowers with the white petals on top draw thousands of visitors to view the lush fields of blue speckled with white. A special treat occurs when over a few weeks time the field of blue and white turns to hues of red and then yellow.

The Texas Paintbrush blooms right alongside the bluebonnet on the same schedule. It is a tall flower—painting the roadways and fields--growing in dense concentrations in diverse hues of pink, orange and red.

The Indian Blanket comes into bloom from April to early May and literally coats the areas it grows in like a huge soft and beautiful blanket of many colors. The Indian Blanket is a large diameter flower with many petals. The petals typically have a yellow border changing to pink as it approaches the middle where the pale orange center sits in a bed of deep red. The bed itself is ringed with tiny bursts of yellow.

These are only a very few of the wildflowers Texas grows in abundance.