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Prickly pear |
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Purple Prickly Pear |
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Teddy Bear Cactus |
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Golden Barrel |
We visited the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston I'd been blown away by a huge Dale Chihuly sculpture - a massive cactus-like tree made of thousands of handblown glass spikes. It was serendipitous that there was a Chihuly exhibition on at the Botanic Gardens. Aren't they marvellous? Almost as good as the cacti, which I have totally come around to after never being much of a succulent fan. They were so varied and extraordinary. Some were like geometric puzzles, some were prehistoric, some were delicate, some over-the-top.
I love Chihuly. I saw some of his work in a Columbus exhibit several years ago.
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