Desert symbiosis.
Category Archives: Botanica
Earth Quail Cactus Sky
It’s a simple life in the desert.
Buckthorn Cholla
The Buckthorn Cactus, botanically known as Cylindropuntia acanthocarpia, is a native of the Sonoran Desert. It’s flowers are yellow or red with shades in between that bloom in spring. The cane-like stalks are covered with thorns and grow in tangled clumps in dry, arid landscape. The flowers are quite showy and bees love ’em.
Desert Life
We go for walks in the desert. Now that spring is warming everything up, all types of desert inhabitants start to appear. Heat loving cactus are blooming, cold-blooded lizards bask in the sun and rabbits forage fallen seeds. I love the desert.
Field of Chollas
Chollas are botanically in the subfamily of Opuntioideae, the same family which includes cactus’s with broad, flat leaves. The leaves of the Cholla are round-ish and really spiny. They quickly become stuck to any object that comes close to it. Their spines hurt and aren’t easy to remove once impaled in either fabric, fur orContinue reading “Field of Chollas”
White Tank Park
Cactus Tree Mountain Sky
Allium sativum – Garlic
Oh, Garlic! What a gift thou art! Hear, I shall tell you why. You heal the heart, relieve the fart Repel possums and flys.
Allium ampeloprasum – Elephant Garlic
The genus Allium is a fabulous species. It includes the garlics, notably the Elephant Garlic as celebrated by this painting. When in bloom they are showy beyond words, when roasted with olive oil and on sour dough, well, you’d think you’d died and gone to heaven. Enjoy! https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1148690
Allium cepa – Common Onion
In praise of the lowly but lovely onion.
Agave, AZ
Nature and realism as abstraction..get it?
