Category: Nature
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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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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 33: Red Cholla! (Cylindropuntia)
These cholla are so incredible, and this is only the beginning of the bloom!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 32: Prickly Pears!
The prickly pears are starting to bloom, along with the cholla and it is more spectacular than I’d imagined it would be.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 31: Palo Verde Trees!
The Palo Verde are starting to bloom in Tucson and it is breath-taking!
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