Saguaro Blooms

 

Saguaro blooms in May mean that summer in the desert is here. Within just a week or two, the blooms fade, and then the fruit will grow. The Thong O'odham and ancestors eat the fruit. Amazingly, the saguaro has tiny, tiny seeds. Birds like the Gila woodpecker and cactus wren love to make their nests in holes in the saguaro. And it grows nowhere else on earth but here in the Sonora Desert.