Found these while riding Jake. We were in the middle of where someone had dumped a truckload of broken glass, and we were carefully negotiating our way out of it when these beauties showed up. Drove back to as close as I could get and grabbed a few and potted them. pic is 1 yr after transplant.
Were. cactus wrens ate every bit of them after 2 years of growth. I was bummed and never found another group to hijack. Someone once gave me the name while on Post, but I forgot to write it down or where I put it if I did.
Most beautiful cactus I've ever seen in bloom. Benign little things when not
Not rare out there. Crazy how the first rain of the monsoon season becomes an event because we got about 13" of rain per year. High desert. 4300 ft elev. The mountain in the distance is 8500.
If you need to strip some furniture and prep it for painting, just leave it out during the spring months and it’ll be ready for staining. No muscle required. 😂😂
My Hispanic friends freaked out when I pronounced it Verga. The context was probably why, but it took a few minutes to clarify what I meant.
a la verga vs a` la virga - are a galaxy apart
