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Saturday, May 12, 2012

More Desert Flowers

The pink flowers are blossoms on the Cholla.  The orange blooms are Prickly Pear Cactus flowers.  The yellow blooms are of the "Blind" Prickly Pear Cactus.  And the last image is of flowers on the Mexican Bird-of-Paradise Tree, a plant native to Argentina.






3 comments:

Dr. K said...

The bees must be feasting on all of that pollen.

Scott said...

I love the cholla flowers against the Organs in the first image.

packrat said...

Thanks, Scott. A greater number of chollas are blooming this spring despite the drought conditions.

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