Flowers

It’s not the first beavertail cactus flower we have seen open in the neighborhood, but this one is ours. It is on a little beavertail cactus we transplanted to my rock and cactus garden a couple of years ago. We have many such transplants, but this is the first one to have an open flower. Click on the image to enlarge.

There will be many more beavertail flowers over the next couple of months in our gardens and also in the wild up the wash near the back property line. Last fall, we brought four paddles from the wash and have them in the courtyard in pots. They also will have flowers any day now. I love spring cactus flowers!

One of the several flower buds on my “Thimble Cactus” opened today. The tiny flower is less than a quarter inch in diameter and about a quarter inch long. Click on the image to enlarge.

We brought this cactus from California when we moved here. I bought it at a cactus show out there several years ago and it has reliably given us these tiny flowers every year since.

In about five weeks or so, I expect to have gorgeous flowers on this hedgehog cactus. This is one of two cacti that are out in front of the house close to the road. Both had flowers last spring.

One of these days, Bob will be moving a couple more hedgehogs from the back hill to locations also near the road. Hopefully, those cacti will also have flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.