Backyard

[cactuswatcher]

For those facing more winter cold here's a shot from the warm southwest

It's always a little disappointing photographing the bush. It's pretty well covered with yellow blooms now. But the camera doesn't really react well to the bright sun and the yellowy green of the bush itself. So you can really only see the blooms well on the shadier side here and not in the shadiest parts well at all.

The larger cactus plants plants in the garden are getting to be a nice size. The smallest ones I planted years ago are beginning to die off from old age, so I need to do some replacing. The funny shaped, light spot on the ground towards the lower right is the reflection of the sun off my master bathroom window.

ETA/EPA a close up

You can probably see my fingers. It's now breezy and I had to hold the branch.

Comments

[auroramama]

Thanks! Very, very pretty; I can see how the bright yellow petals and dark stamens can blend, at a little distance, into the light olive foliage. I can also see that I have no idea what this plant is, or even what family it's in. I was thinking of broom, but there are no keel petals, even if the flower is mirror-symmetric rather than radial, which I wouldn't put money on.

Cool!

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

It's a Desert Senna (Cassia nemphophila) from Australia. They go very well in Arizona without watering.