I notice some of my blog-buds who live in more temperate, not to mention verdant, climes are posting or have posted photos of local Spring color... ranging from bulbs (e.g., daffodils, crocuses, etc.), to wisteria, to redbud trees, and other unknown-to-me yet colorful flowers... all of which are quite beautiful. We don't have quite that much variety here on the High Plains o' New Mexico, but we do have SOME harbingers o' Spring, which also includes some weirdness. Witness these spiky lil things:
I have NO ideer what these spiky plants are called but they certainly are strange. Those purplish shoots will eventually grow out to a height of about five and a half feet with delicate lil flowers that eventually turn into seed pods. Like this:
Last year's seed pods, gone to seed.
Well, there ya have it. "Local Spring color," such as it is.
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I have NO ideer what these spiky plants are called but they certainly are strange. Those purplish shoots will eventually grow out to a height of about five and a half feet with delicate lil flowers that eventually turn into seed pods. Like this:
Last year's seed pods, gone to seed.
Well, there ya have it. "Local Spring color," such as it is.
Definitely odd looking. One of your flamingos appears to be fascinated by them.
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda fascinated, too.
DeleteUp in the State of Hockey, Minnesota, we still have snow in the forecast, and two to four inches on the ground. It is warm enough to melt most of it by tonight, just in time for another layer. Thank goodness for climate change. It would be so boring living someplace where the weather was always 75 and sunny.
ReplyDeleteTell the folks in Maui how bored they are.
Delete@Tim: What Skip said! Thanks for dropping by.
DeleteThat plant looks kinda like one I have out front at my place.
ReplyDeleteI dunno what it's called but we don't get those longer spikes.
I asked if anyone knew what this plant is back when I first moved in here... and no one had any ideer.
DeleteI don't know what those plants are call (not unusual for me), but I have seen them and wanted one. I want a flamingo too.
ReplyDeleteI have it on good authority that the plant is a Red Yucca. It sure looks like it.
DeletePS: Flamingos are as near as Amazon. ;-)
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