Arizona spring break

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7george
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Arizona spring break

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Want to show you here some views and cacti photos from my short trip in Arizona last March. Mostly in Phoenix area and Botanical gardens.
Saguaro
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Usery Park
Usery Park
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hiking trail
hiking trail
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Ferocactus & Mam.
Ferocactus & Mam.
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Desert Garden
Desert Garden
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Ferocactus pilosus
Ferocactus pilosus
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First I hoped to see something with flowers. Came out that most grasses, trees and cacti were in bloom.
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Even wild Ferocactus opened first flowers during one day.
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Mammillaria over the cliff.

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Just for saguaros was too early even some early ones budded already.
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Climbing Piestawa peak.

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City blooms.

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Nice. Your photos make me me want to get outdoors.
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Couldn't miss to spend a day in the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. Lot of things to see there too.

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Boyce Thompson Arboretum, it worthed visiting.
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Wild cacti around the short hiking trail around this botanical garden.
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“Thorny weeds around the bench”, I love this photo.

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More views around the trail.

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You will not miss their market place too.
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum
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Excellent photos, thank you for sharing.
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It came out I had an autumn brake there too. Some of the photos I made in October. Was still hot like in the summer.
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Wind Cave trail views.
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Interesting Ferocactus spines.
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Not enough grass for this snake.
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Also some late blooms in Desert Botanical Garden, PHX.
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A cactus-clock.
Neoraimondia herzogiana.
Neoraimondia herzogiana.
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And some sites in central Arizona at ~ 1200 m asl.
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These look like O. engelmanii, O. macrocentra.
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Echinocereus fasciculatus, most likely.
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Found an Escobaria vivipara as well.

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thanks for great pics :)
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loving the cacti photos! i want to get down that way someday. I really love the rattlesnake :D i have a soft spot for them!
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Wow, can't believe I missed the first posting. I hope to visit Arizona this year. Thanks for sharing.


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