That's a flowering agave in the foreground, but notice lots of mesquites behind it? The native mesquite around here is Prosopis velutina. Well, I'm getting a lesson in the uncertainties of agriculture. We had a cool spring and lots to plants, including mesquites, had a delayed flowering. No problem, I thought. I talked to my horticulturist friend Gene while I waited. He said that nutritional quality of pods varied widely. Pods with reddish highlights are supposed to have a higher sugar content.
