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DBG1_170714_012.JPG: Desert Botanical Garden
DBG1_170714_085.JPG: Oh baby it's hot outside...
Why is there cloth on some of the plants?
DBG1_170714_163.JPG: What is a Cactus?
DBG1_170714_190.JPG: Berlin Agave Yucca Forest
DBG1_170714_193.JPG: Moon
DBG1_170714_229.JPG: The Earth Has Been Good to Us
by Mashford Kanyemba
DBG1_170714_254.JPG: Giant Mexican Cardon
Look up! The cardon towering over you is one of the Garden's very first plants: more than 75 years old.
When director George Lindsay collected these cardons in Baja, they were less than five feet tall.
DBG1_170714_268.JPG: Webster Auditorium
DBG1_170714_285.JPG: Oscar Strobel
1939
DBG1_170714_293.JPG: Have You Seen Me?
DBG1_170714_315.JPG: The Sonoran Desert
DBG1_170714_334.JPG: Does the Cholla Cactus Really Jump?
No, but it may seem like it does!
DBG1_170714_350.JPG: The moon again
DBG1_170714_356.JPG: Does the Barrel Cactus Contain Water?
DBG1_170714_365.JPG: Why is the Saguaro Cactus Growing Under the Palo Verde Tree?
DBG1_170714_370.JPG: Yeah, I know, I kept fixating on that moon
DBG1_170714_374.JPG: Can You Find These Mountains?
DBG1_170714_387.JPG: Why Does the Saguaro Cactus Have Ribs?
DBG1_170714_396.JPG: Why Does the Palo Verde Tree Have Green Bark?
DBG1_170714_403.JPG: Notice the cactus growing under this bursage bush
DBG1_170714_407.JPG: Why do Woodpeckers Peck Holes in the Saguaro Cactus?
DBG1_170714_452.JPG: Plants and People of the Sonoran Desert
DBG2_170714_001.JPG: Sonoran Desert
DBG2_170714_003.JPG: The Habitats of the Sonoran Desert
DBG2_170714_006.JPG: Ethnobotany
DBG2_170714_011.JPG: You are entering the
Desert Habitat
DBG2_170714_014.JPG: Saguaro Harvesting
DBG2_170714_021.JPG: You are entering the
Desert Oasis
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Wikipedia Description: Desert Botanical Garden
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The Desert Botanical Garden is a 140 acres (57 ha) botanical garden located in Papago Park, at 1201 N. Galvin Parkway in Phoenix, central Arizona.
Founded by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society in 1937 and established at this site in 1939, the garden now has more than 21,000 plants, in more than 4000 taxa, one-third of which are native to the area, including 139 species which are rare, threatened or endangered.
Of special note are the rich collections of agave (176 taxa) and cacti (10,350 plants in 1,350 taxa), especially the Opuntia sub-family. Plants from less extreme climate conditions are protected under shadehouses. It focuses on plants adapted to desert conditions, including an Australian collection, a Baja California collection and a South American collection. Several ecosystems are represented: a mesquite bosque, semidesert grassland, and upland chaparral.
The Desert Botanical Garden has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride.
History
In the 1930s, a small group of local citizens became interested in conserving the fragile desert environment. One was Swedish botanist Gustaf Starck, who found like-minded residents by posting a sign, “Save the desert,” with an arrow pointing to his home. In 1936, they formed the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society (ACNFS) to sponsor a botanical garden to encourage an understanding, appreciation and promotion of the uniqueness of the world’s deserts, particularly the local Sonoran Desert.
Eventually Gertrude Webster, whose home encompassed all of what is today the neighborhood of Arcadia, joined the Society. She offered her encouragement, connections and financial support to establish the botanical garden in Papago Park.
She served as president of the Society’s first Board of Directors and Gustaf Starck, W. E. Walker, Rell Hasket, L. L. Kreigbaum, and Samuel Wilson were the five vice president. The latter also served as Treas ...More...
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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