Carob trees bloom around the same time this year's pod crop is harvesting. This is one of Davis' carobs that's in bloom right now. Carobs are mostly dioecious("two houses" from Greek), which means that some trees have male flowers and some have female flowers. A small % of trees have perfect flowers - meaning both male and female reproductive parts. @plantscience#Botany#Carob#Flowers
Blueberries blooming in fall! This is the “top hat” variety. I checked the other bushes and they aren’t blooming.
Blueberries will do this if the fall is warm for too long and it affects the next season’s crop (fewer berries). Picking off the flowers doesn’t fix this.
A young flower hunter gets embroiled in the succession politics of the Sultanate when she must retrieve the rarest and most powerful magical flower after giving it to the wrong hands, in Rati Mehrotra’s Flower and Thorn.
we're getting more and more 'heavenly blues' each day. this will come to an abrupt end with the first frost, but for now we're enjoying it while we can 🌸