Hesperaloe Parviflora, Yucca Hesperia or False Yucca. I dug a chunk of one of my neighbor’s plants up 2 years ago. This is my first bloom. I love things that don’t require a lot of water and that still bloom. Summer…

Peace, out!

Although it does bloom during the day, the flowers seem happiest to me at night. Tomorrow morning this bloom will lie yellowish and wilted. It will bloom all Summer and grow to perhaps three feet high and as much as twice that in girth. Before it dies back it will produce round, stickery seed pods.

This plant grows wild all over North America. People call it Jimson Weed and Loco Weed for it’s hallucinogenic properties. Many native cultures use it to have dreams and visions and it’s said to allow astral travel. It’s in the Nightshade family, so it is not a plant to be used lightly or without a full understanding of doses and preparation.

Peace, out!

For Robin’s Summer Stock Sunday I offer this volunteer blown in on a wild wind. I haven’t yet looked it up to see if I can identify it, but it’s the first one I’ve seen around here. Looks like a somewhat upright desert dandelion, with its stickery leaves doesn’t it? I took the photo for identification purposes, but I’m rather pleased with the shadow play.

Peace, out!