We can set our calendar by blooming lechuguilla. They start to send up their flower stalks in late April/early May, and by the last week of May, the first blooms have opened on the curve in the road uphill of Red Rock Canyon. Millions of other stalks will flower on the ranch during the month of June. Lechuguilla is fragrant, so we get a whiff of perfumed air every time we pass them.
