Our daughter, Katie, and her husband, Mike, were able to spend a week with us at Val Vista Villages on their way back to Georgia. We enjoyed our first visit to the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix so much we convinced them to join us for a return trip. Katie used an umbrella to get some relief from the intense sunshine on an otherwise extremely pleasant day (even if it was 100 degrees). I think they enjoyed the gardens. Like most folks, they were impressed with the variety of cacti.
These pictures probably make it clear, I found the colors and textures in the cactus flowers fascinating, and of course, I always have to snap pictures of sunbathing lizards.
The Saguaro is the official state cactus of Arizona and they seem to be everywhere but you do not often see a crested saguaro. Botanists speculate the strange growth pattern may be due to genetic mutation or maybe it was a lightning strike.
We highly recommend the Desert Botanical Gardens for anyone visiting the Phoenix area. We joined the American Horticultural Society that has a reciprocal program that gives us free admission to over 320 Gardens across the country. We will certainly return.
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