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The Beauty of
Desert Vegetation at the
Red Hills Desert Garden By Cliff & Ilene Bandringa, BackRoadsWest.com
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e love exploring the Southwest and part of that love is being able to see the wide variety of desert plants out there. From the trees, like desert willows or smoke trees, to bushes, like the creosote, to all the different varieties of wildflowers, cacti, yuccas, and agaves, they all offer a beauty unique to the desert environment. We always come away with a deeper appreciation of Mother Nature’s diversity. The Red Hills Desert Garden in St. George, Utah, is one of the only desert gardens that specialize in plants of the Mojave Desert region. You’ll find more than 5,000 water-efficient plants within their five-acre space that are beautifully displayed and landscaped. And because it is a demonstration garden with the goal of educating people about the benefits of having a water-smart landscape, all of the plants are labeled so that you can learn their names. There are also convenient QR codes on the labels that you can scan with your phone to get a full description of that plant, along with several pictures of it and what the flowers look like.
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