Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog!

These willows are fragrant! This color smells of berry cobbler in old Tupperware. Others flat-out reeks of plastic chemicals. Others with light pink flowers smell like heaven: a complex perfume within what strikes the nose ultimately as freshness itself.

Fun fact: These ‘willows’ are actually of the Tribe Catalpeae, of which there are only two Genera: Chilopsis and Catalpa.

Scroll through the most recent photos:

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 55: Tecoma fulva ‘Bells of Fire'(?)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 54: Climbing Milkweed! (Funastrum cynanchoides)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 53: Chitalpa, or what you get when you mix Desert Willow with Catalpa

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 51: Ironwood (Olneya tesota)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 50: Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 49: Opuntia Microdasys

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 48: Yellow Cholla

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 47: A Cholla with Brown Flowers! (Cylindropuntia)

Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 46: Mexican Palo Verde (Parkinsonia aculeata)

And see all the photosets together here:

Spring Flowers, Tucson, 2023