The Arizona Desert In Bloom

The Arizona desert is at its best this year with all the rain we have had.  It is glorious just to drive through the city and today I carried the camera in the car with me as I traveled on errands.  Here is part of the drive to pick up my grandson at school this morning.

 

Here is a close up of the palo verde tree.  You can see that it has thousands of tiny flowers  just as it has tons of tiny tiny leaves.

There were all kinds of other yellow flowers in different places.

The agave sometimes has very different blooms.

The red family of spring flowers in the desert is widely varied.  There is the bouganvillea which comes from Mexico but is found everywhere in Arizona in the warmest areas.

The ocotillo is a desert native but is also grown for its shape and spring flowers.

The red aloe is another native plant that is grown for landscaping.  The more water it gets, the larger it grows and the more it flowers.

These tiny pink flowers together make quite a statement also.

Verbenas abound in the desert landscape and these purple ones make for a bright corner.

Pomegranates are in bloom in our yard, and the flowers are stunning.

Tiny apples are starting to take on a reddish tinge, but this is the first year for this apple tree, so I don't know if the fruit will make it to maturity or not.

Guarding all of the produce is Farmer Hank.  He is only being good and not bothering anything because I was out there with him.

Last is an Indian Chief iris that was one of my grandmother's favorite flowers.  I have a little bit of her with me out here in the Arizona desert in the springtime.  I know she would have loved all of the flowers just as I do.

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[Sara]

Thanks for your good wishes.
Your flower photos are amazing...how beautiful! And..of course...your Giant Schnauzers are wonderful! How many do you have?