Thursday, June 3, 2010

Cactus Flowers

I knew, in the far reaches of my mind that cacti flower...a cactus can flower...there are such things as cactus flowers...whatever. But I've never actually seen one. And truth be told, I hate cactus! And I especially hate our cactus...

See there, right where the fence gets taller.

Well, about a week and a half ago we noticed these little thingies on it....



They were sorta fuzzy and wierd looking like the cactus coughed up a hairball or something. then they started growing these sorta pod looking things out of them....



Then they opened and turned into this...



The day I took the above picture, right afterwards I went to dinner. I was gone maybe 2 hours and when I came back, the flowers had gone from that to this...
They really are beautiful...coming from this awful, prickly, ugly plant. Amazing!



1 comment:

muralimanohar said...

Yah, I have a post somewhere in the depths of my blog about a cactus flower of my dd's..it's amazing how gorgeous they are, for such a dry, ugly, unattractive plant!!!