The front garden at the
Painted Pony Resort is always the first thing guests see upon arriving on the estate for a visit and a lot of work goes into making it an inviting area for guests to explore. There are several large Spanish Dagger plants (
Yucca schidigera) in the garden and these are generally the first of the yuccas to bloom. This year one of them has produced a number of flowering stems which were photographed over a 24 hour period as they began to bloom. The large thick red flowering stems grew quickly and began to open producing light yellow/creamy white flowers. Yuccas are pollinated by moths
(Tegeticula sp.), with different species specializing in different yucca and with the large blooms it should be a feeding/pollinating frenzy for the moths this year.
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| Yucca stem starting to open |
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| Yucca stem soon to produce an explosion of flowers |
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| Yucca in bloom (the best image) |
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| Two more flowering stems |
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| Flowers at the top of the 8' yucca |
Beautiful
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan, the blooms are magnificent.
ReplyDeletevery nice series of photos. I usually have time get away from me on a project like this................one year [very little rain] Gambel's quail were eating my petal display [no seeds put out by the yucca that dry year] but I got a few good pix of that, birds and blooms
ReplyDeleteThank you. I know what you mean, time gets away from me so easily but fortunately I was cleaning in the front garden for several days (still have more to do) so I was able to a progression of images.
ReplyDeleteNow your photo is on www.portalrodeo.com as Howard is rounding up more photos to show.
ReplyDeleteYes, I sent the one I thought came out exceptionally well to Howard to post on the community photo page. I generally post images that I believe either express an emotion or capture the feel of the area to several places on the web to increase their visibility and probability of indexing in a search.
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