Texas Gardening: What I love about Spring in Texas, 3 by bariolio

bariolio wrote:
All my flowering bushes & especially the vines start budding out & make the most beautiful flowers of the year. Not only that, the leaves also look pretty & green. As the weather gets hot, the leaves get fried!
I love when my bald Japanese maple gets it\'s first flush of leaves.
I have a variety of semidwarf azaleas that produce the most amazing amount of flowers, despite the fact that they\'ve always had some kind of leaf disease (fungus?)--Red Ruffles azalea.
And this year I have several borderline plants that seem to have made it over the hump & are thriving--my Angel Trumpet & Satsuma.
These pictures are from past seasons. I love purple!
What do you love about Spring in Texas? :)