Spring will be arriving soon, and it is always such a wonderful time to be living in central Texas. For me one of the highlights is the sight of some of our flowering native trees blossoming out – the redbuds, the mountain laurels and the Mexican plums.

You can see them planted in landscapes as accent plants, and along the roadways growing wild. It is these wild trees that show us just how adaptable they are. Sometimes they are exposed to the full force of the sun and other times they form...