The bottlebrush bush that I posted Friday has many more blooms a few days later.
The bees sure enjoy bottlebrush blooms.
This is a vine growing up and over our front gate. I got an app to identify plants and discovered this is Pyracantha koidzumi, also called Formosan Firethorn.
Formosan Firethorn growing over our front gate.
This will be a beautiful flower soon, but will only last a day. I don’t remember the name of this cactus and the app gave me five choices that don’t fit. It looks like Hedgehog Cactus but the images on google have massive spikes.
Lantana. We had this plant in Palm Springs and it wanted to take over our backyard. I found out that Lantana is considered an invasive species in many places, including neighboring states. I may remove it.
Barrel cactus are blooming, too.
I’ve never seen this Yucca in our front yard bloom before. Amazing!
It has beautiful blossoms.
I’ve also never seen this tree in our courtyard have so many seed pods. My new app calls it Ebony Blackbead.
And finally look at this Silver Torch cactus is busting out all over!
What are the signs of Spring where you live?
Thank you for sharing! These photos are incredible!
I’m glad you enjoyed my photos!
All beautiful and amazing EA! We have only one tree in the yard so far that is setting buds. Lots of small Yucca along our trail system but I suspect too small to bloom yet.
We had a very rainy winter. I’m thinking that’s why we have so many plants blooming and budding.
I’m sure it is. Our plants have no idea what’s going on 😉
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Excellent photos, Elizabeth!! I love cacti, there are so many wonderful variations! Have a great week. 😍
I’ll be keeping my eye and camera out for cacti blossoms. Especially the crowns on saguaro.
Pretty cactus! The signs of Spring are people working in their backyard! Enjoy your week!
Hopefully it is cooling down a bit. We’ve had excessive heat warning all last week. Temperatures at 100 degrees.
Wow, yeah our temp is good to work in the yard. In the morning, begins around 65 and then continues to rise but temperate. We are weeding and getting rid of a few things and planting. This morning, we finished planting in pots. Now, it is getting hotter. It feels good.
We skipped nice temperatures like that this year. We went from too cold to too hot. It was in the low 30s, high of 50s and then the next week 100 degrees! I am longing for temperatures like yours.
Lots of color for a desert! Cupcake and I are being far more diligent in replacing the plants that could not handle the freeze. We used to concentrate on color; now we concentrate on cold tolerance. Today we planted 5 Salvia, which are beautiful purple, grow magnificently in pots, and are cold-tolerant to 0 (F). We have more to replace, and are leaning to red and yellows, but only if they can survive down to 20 (F).
That sounds like a fun thing to do, to plant beautiful flowering plants. We had so much rain this year, I think that’s why everything is blooming more than normal here. We didn’t lose any plants, but our temperatures were as low as 30 degrees a few weeks ago.
That bottlebrush is stunning in full bloom ! Wish I could have one here…
It’s amazing how it changed in a couple days. It’s a highlight in our front yard.
Love the bottle brush!! So pretty! And the Yucca bloom! Saw that while on vacation. 🙂
I found a beautiful pink flower on a beavertail cactus in our backyard today. There’s a few more buds waiting to bloom!
Oh my stars…I hadn’t thought about bottlebrush blooms in FOREVER. Both my dad and sister Lisa were big time allergic — there were tons of bottlebrush plants in their yard when they lived in the Bay Area. Ahhhhhoooo memories, for sure! 😜💝😜
We’ve had them in our desert homes in Palm Springs and now Arizona. I didn’t think of them in the Bay Area. But everything grows there!
lol! Indeed! Xo! 😘
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We have mostly succulents in our yard and they are so happy. With the heavy rain a few weeks ago and now the hotter temps, they are blooming like crazy. We also have bottle brush, bougainvillea, and grevilia. Oh, and we are starting to harvest tomatoes already… with blueberries in a few months.
I’ve tried to grow Lantana in pots with absolutely no luck. I thought they were hard to kill, but I managed.
I love succulents. We had so much rain this winter that every plant looks happy and is blooming. Plus the heat was mid 90s to 100 degrees last week.
You’re lucky the Lantana didn’t grow! I really don’t like it, but the former owners planted everything in our yard. I’m not taking out healthy plants. The only thing we added was bougainvillea which we have on both ends of the backyard, plus in front of the area that holds our trash bins.
Those yellow blooms on the barrel cactus are so vibrant. So many beautiful plants and flowers. Thank you, Elizabeth!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them! I just took photos of a beavertail cactus with a gorgeous pink flower. There are more buds, so I’ll be taking photos as they bloom.
Ooh, the one with huge white with pink tinted flowers is a Argentine giant cactus! They’re so pretty! 💮
Thanks for letting me know! They are gorgeous!
Some unusual plants you have there. That yucca is gorgeous! Lantana is only an annual potted plant here—though that might change. I saw a mosquito a couple days ago. Haven’t heard any frogs yet, though. Birds are singing away!
I don’t know why I haven’t seen the yucca in bloom before. It sounds like spring is on it’s way for you. I’m hoping to see quail babies soon.
It really is a beautiful scene with so much plants blooming.
It really is beautiful with the blossoms.
It sure is 🌹
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no signs yet. but hopefully soon
I took photos of seven mule deer in our backyard this morning. They walked around our house to our driveway. One was eating our bottlebrush! That’s a sure sign of spring. There were a couple young ones in the group.
perfect!!
It was an exciting start to my day. I was going to jump in the shower when noticed an Amazon package outside. Then I saw the deer. I could have missed them completely.
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