Okay family so here is some neat trivia for you....we have some real special stuff going on here in God's desert.....THE JOSHUA'S ARE BLOOMING WOW! Now you may not think this is amazing but it really is......they do not bloom every year only when conditions are just right! There has to be enough rain fall and it has to happen at just the right time and we also have to have some winter freeze....so everything happened just as it was suppose to they are beginning to bloom it is really neat. They start out looking sorta like a really big artichoke like these then......
when they start blooming they break out into a whole bunch of white petals......
with a little touch of purple at the top and they last for several weeks then the wind comes.....yah blows all the petals away and then we wait another couple of years to see them again! cool huh?
One last bit of trivia....the name Joshua tree came from Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave desert back in the 1850's or there about...the unique shape reminded them of a biblical story in which Joshua reached his hands up to the sky in prayer....how about that we named a tree! Nature at it finest ! Thank You God!
Okay family so here is some neat trivia for you....we have some real special stuff going on here in God's desert.....THE JOSHUA'S ARE BLOOMING WOW! Now you may not think this is amazing but it really is......they do not bloom every year only when conditions are just right! There has to be enough rain fall and it has to happen at just the right time and we also have to have some winter freeze....so everything happened just as it was suppose to they are beginning to bloom it is really neat. They start out looking sorta like a really big artichoke like these then......
when they start blooming they break out into a whole bunch of white petals......
with a little touch of purple at the top and they last for several weeks then the wind comes.....yah blows all the petals away and then we wait another couple of years to see them again! cool huh?
One last bit of trivia....the name Joshua tree came from Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave desert back in the 1850's or there about...the unique shape reminded them of a biblical story in which Joshua reached his hands up to the sky in prayer....how about that we named a tree! Nature at it finest ! Thank You God!
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That is pretty, I think that is the only time I would really think of a Joshua tree pretty. That is some awesome trivia about them, thanks for the info. Enjoy the rare beauty.
Beautiful. Hopefully I can come up and see those again. I want to come up on memorial day weekend again, but I need my car fixed. We'll see.
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