Tag: Trees
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 53: Chitalpa, or what you get when you mix Desert Willow with Catalpa
A desert-ready Catalpa hybridized with Desert Willow!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 52: Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Fragrant deep magenta flowers on small trees with willow-shaped leaves!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 51: Ironwood (Olneya tesota)
Turns out Ironwood trees flower as if the crabapples of the Sonoran Desert.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 46: Mexican Palo Verde (Parkinsonia aculeata)
Mexican Palo Verde has long delicate strands of leaflets and flowers with an orange tint. One of my favorites!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 45: Foothill Palo Verde (Parkinsonia microphylla)
These popcorn-lookin trees are incredible on their own; but together mixed in with other Palo Verde varieties, the sight is breathtaking!
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Reintegrating with Nature: (Sub)Urban Edition + A Key to Happiness
How do we begin a relationship with the Earth? I make an inquisitive approach, but Kimmerer rightly points out that the first step is to plant a garden. What are your strategies for reconnecting with the natural world?
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 31: Palo Verde Trees!
The Palo Verde are starting to bloom in Tucson and it is breath-taking!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 29: Huisache (aka Sweet Acacia, aka Vachellia farnesiana)
Native ‘many thorned’ #trees with gorgeous yellow puffs for #flowers, called Sweet Acacia. #Tucson #Spring #photos
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 28: A Pomegranate Tree
Pomegranates start out as the most incredible flowers on short trees!! 😍
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There are some who will outlive us all (with audio)
Here’s a poem from my second collection, Integration, celebrating our relationship with the beings who were our first home.
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 