Friday Flower Blogging

[ellarien]

Prickly pear, at the far end of the flowering season. The campus is emptying out, and there won't be much flowering for a while; the saguaros don't seem very enthusiastic about it this year.

(Oh, and it turns out last week's flower was desert willow after all; it comes in both light and dark purple colorways, while ironwood is a different tree with light purple flowers.)