Author: Lucca Daniel Green
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 42: Another Cholla Surprise
A cholla (cylindropuntia) with flowers the color of fuchsias!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 41: A Yellow-and-Brown Pinstriped Cholla!
I can’t get enough of the (Cylindr)opuntia! There is *so* much hybridizing going on that the variety is seemingly endless!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 40: Bougainvillea spectabilis
The most stunning bush I’ve ever seen, and they’re all over the cultivated areas of the city!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 39: Santa Rita Prickly Pear
These maroon/purple cacti turn out to produce the brightest, purest lemon yellow! 😍
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 38: Desert Verbena (Glandularia aristigera)
Lil purple/pink flower-balls on frilly stalks! Desert Verbena! Growing wild as if weeds in my yard! 🥰
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 37: Color-Changing Flowers! (Lantana camara)
These flowers are pretty impressive, turns out! They change color and everything! Lantana camara, ‘Common Lantana.’
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 36: American Threefold (Trixis Californica)
Gorgeous sunshine-yellow flowers on a sprawling bush mixed in on a hillside.
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Reintegrating with Nature: (Sub)Urban Edition + A Key to Happiness
How do we begin a relationship with the Earth? I make an inquisitive approach, but Kimmerer rightly points out that the first step is to plant a garden. What are your strategies for reconnecting with the natural world?
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 35: Silverleaf Nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium)
These spiny “weeds” have gorgeous flowers!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 34: An Unbelievable Prickly Pear! (Opuntia Stenopetala)
Never have I ever seen a prickly pear (Opuntia) that put out flowers like this!
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