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This nameless beauty almost went unnoticed in a patio pot
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Only red and yellow blossoms on the Red Bird, but which blend into orange when viewed from a distance
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Our beautiful crepe myrtle makes a chemical oddity
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"Red" (often called Mexican) bird of paradise (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) and crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia subcostata)
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The neighbor's blooming saguaro backed by a palo verde tree
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The most robust bloom of saguaros in the Tucson, AZ area in three years
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This Trichocereus bud will probably bloom tonight
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At close quarters an alien landscape emerges
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Queen for a day
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Intricate bloom interior of a Trichocereus hybrid "Big Bertha"
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Late blooming transplant
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Big Bertha's normal exterior
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Windstorm toppled saguaro creates havoc in a neighbor's yard
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Birds frequent the ocotillo dining room in early spring
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Immature pomegranate fruit
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Morning sun colors a giant begonia leaf
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Aloes protect their soothing juices with painful spines
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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then, face to face...
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Bird harbor entrance in our pyracantha hedge
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Saguaro blooms topside view
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The saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea,) blossom is the State Wildflower of Arizona.
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Our ocotillo in full flower
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Birds and bee's eye view
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Trichocereus in yellow, instead of usual white
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Blooms of our desert willow (Chilopsis linearis)
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Blooms of our front yard pomegranates (Punica granatum)
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Perhaps this oddity came from the cave of the Graeae consulted by Perseus--but which one of them has the eye?
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Elegant, more restrained night bloomer
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Volunteer double pink hollyhock
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Patio gate trichocereus hybrid 'Big Bertha" keeps putting on a show
