Of course, Mother Nature had a little help about 10 years ago, thanks to teamwork from Temple citizens. In 1986, the Temple Chamber of Commerce established a Beautification Committee to give nature a gentle nudge. Later, the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation planted more seeds along Interstate 35 and Loop 363. Then Mother Nature took care of the rest. So every year is new and fresh with Temple's wildflowers.
Many beautiful flowers grow in Bell County.
Evening primroses are probably, next to the bluebonnets, the best known flowers of Texas. The pink evening primrose is almost as much loved as the bluebonnet. It is almost white to deep pink, with deeper pink lines in its petals, giving a charm all its own to many grass lands and fence rows from spring to late summer. Bell County is a perfect paradise of wild flowers from early spring until late fall. The streams were full of fish of all kinds.