Another great specimen from the Tucson gem and mineral show. Labeled with origin and price.

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Road runner in the garden looking for breakfast

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Each empty pot represents a dead plant from this summer.

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My adenium is blooming

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landscape shot from the roof

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Curves are better than straight lines

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Another random shot of the backyard.

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Photo from this month's newsletter that I think you'll enjoy.

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Still blooming, and now leafing out

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This is why you plant yuccas in Phoenix

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Another great Renny plant. Hawortia cooperi v. obtusa variegate

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Haworthias do like being in the ground.

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Y'all going to love this bad boy

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Recent nursery find

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another angle of his backyard, landscape is 40 years old

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Underused landscape plant, totem pole cactus

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My Pharaoh hound relaxing in the garden

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neighbor's cactus was blooming

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New plant, (epithelantha micromeris) and a new pot.

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I never thought I'd see snow in my cactus garden in Phoenix

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Had dinner outside last night

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Another rain triggered blooming festival.

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Another random landscape shot from my backyard in Phoenix.

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Volunteer lantana in my cactus bed.

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Another backyard shot of my plantings

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When you get rain every week for months on end in Phoenix

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Photo from this month's newsletter that I think you'll enjoy.

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Plant mail. Grafted astrophytum caput-medusae

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landscape shot from the roof 2

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The walkway has grown in nicely this summer.

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I finally found one, euphorbia horwoodii.

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What a rotted golden barrel looks like. The smell was disgusting.

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Calcite on aragonite, 6 inches tall.

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Steps through my succulent garden

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I really liked his backyard

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Another reverting cactus.

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This haworthia has some striking colors.

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Kind of rare euphorbia gymnocalycioides

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If you can, put in bougainvillea in your gardens.

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ring of flowers on my haageocereus versicolor

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All 3 of these were placed today. 450 pounds apiece

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Buds and open flowers on my pachycereus pringlei

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I love the way my portulacaria afra is cascading over the rock wall.

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New balls, new bloom on T. geometricus

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1/2 inch of cold rain expected, so these babies are in the kitchen.

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Doubled in height this year

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Vivianite on left, imperial topaz on right. Which one, I can only afford one.

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tried to make a natural looking grouping

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A visitor to my garden last night.

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My neighbor's beaver tail

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The recent rains really made this guy grow

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My cowboy's red whiskers in full bloom.

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Plant mail, Pilosocereus calcisaxicolus.

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Female cones next to male cones on welwitschia mirabilis

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Flourite on quartz [oc][1512x2016] about 8 inches high

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The growing tip has vertical spines.

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Stones, a shop in Scottsdale is going out of business. MINE now

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Such a strange plant, tephrocactus articulatus

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Coordinated tilt of the astrophytum ornatums.

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a very stressed astrophytum blooming

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This good looking guy/gal on Camelback Mountain today

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Purple sky with cactus

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Female cones on welwitschia mirabilis are plumping up.

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25 year old pinecone cactus

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I love this stone work.

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Better angle on mamm. city

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my crested san pedro is starting to revert to normal growth.

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The woody center of the welwitschia mirabilis

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It's still blooming!

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new growth!

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some blooming lithops

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Best monkey tail cactus I've ever seen. Not mine.

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4 new balls

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Time to break apart and repot, variegated truncata

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good morning from my weird cactus

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All finished

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Time for me to stop watering lithops

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Tip: Make sure your paths are wide enough for your wheeled garbage bin.

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Volunteer lantana in my cactus bed.

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plant mail

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The recent rains triggered a blooming event.

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My weird trichocereus terscheckii is blooming

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Steps through my succulent garden

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The new growth on the meristem is really pink

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Progress on female cones of welwitschia mirabilis

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My cucumber is doing well

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new pads on my santa rita

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interesting opuntia on today's walk

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I like the markings on my cardon.

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Plant mail, gymnocalycium saglionis inermis in a 9 inch pot.

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Notocactus magnificus 6' wide

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Plant mail

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Just got a delivery.

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Barely a wrinkle and I haven't watered them in about 6 months.

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460 BC Greek silver coin

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Cactus planter

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morning sun

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A rare sight, a didierea madagascariensis in bloom in my greenhouse

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They do love being in the ground.

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Dawn light showing this trichocereus spines

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I never thought I'd see snow in my cactus garden in Phoenix

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Update on the female cones

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the symmetry to browningia hertlingiana

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Adenium has been blooming for a couple of weeks now.

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Update on welwitschia cones

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Ripped out a oleander hedge and installed a berm with huge rocks and desert plants.

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Looks like my garden now has 2 new residents.

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A bit crowded green ice for your enjoyment

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I'm going to need a bigger pot (sansevieria masoniana)

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I finally found one, euphorbia horwoodii.

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blooms right before death perhaps?

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Everywhere in Phoenix right now.

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3D uptake of water in this organ pipe cactus

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Adenium blooming

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A good example of farina, (the powdery blue coating) on the same plant.

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Plant mail from Italy

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plant mail, mammillaria humboltii in 3 inch pot

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Surprise flying saucer bloom

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Neighbor's yard

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growing like crazy this year

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My favorite ariocarpus is blooming.

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Another section

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Late bloomers

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Sunrise in cactus land

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Close up of the male flowers.

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I do not have a problem [1512x2016][oc]

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I love this little guy.

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I never thought I'd see snow in my cactus garden in Phoenix

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Recent rain caused my cacti to bloom

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This is what happens when 50 mph gusts hits your landscape cactus

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Mega T H I C C

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Old man Parodia is blooming

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Into each life, a little rain must fall.

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A stairway I made over the mound to another low area.

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Wow, I like this guy.

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Bendy and poky.

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Plant mail. Copiapoa hypogaea lizard skin in a 2 inch pot.

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Neighbor's yard

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Neighbor's yard

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Nice golden barrel cluster

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My agave utahensis v. eborispina won best agave in the CACSS show.

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New growth

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New pads and new blooms

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Cactus dish

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Natural limestone bench

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This weirdo just popped up on eBay.

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Parodia magnificus blooming

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In the morning light

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FINALLY! Caught the terror of my greenhouse. It took weeks.

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Cynanchum marnierianum bloom.

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