After we toured the Mediterranean Conservatory at the Albuquerque Botanical Gardens on Sunday, Don and I headed over to the Desert Conservatory.
What a contrast in humidity, colors and textures.
A Baja fairy duster, named so because its red flowers are shaped like miniature feather dusters.
Morning Bray Farm 
February 8, 2011 at 5:09 am
Wouldn’t you love to wear a dress covered with blossoms of the Baja fairy duster?
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February 8, 2011 at 6:57 am
June,
Why, yes, I would. As an added bonus… apparently, hummingbirds love the Baja fairy duster. 😀
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February 8, 2011 at 5:36 am
Wow! The Desert Conservatory looks wonderful! I love desert and flowers vegetations.
The second photo looks like a green snake…
Thanks for sharing!
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February 8, 2011 at 6:57 am
Sonia,
You’re welcome! It was wonderful. A little bit of heaven on earth… just like where you live. Hugs to Flora.
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February 8, 2011 at 6:05 am
Loved the feather duster! Thanks for sharing the green while we sit in all white here in WI. You are making spring seem a little closer with each botanical post for me. 🙂
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February 8, 2011 at 6:58 am
C,
You’re welcome. Hang in there!
They’re calling for the possibility of snow here this afternoon/evening, so I’ll just keep looking at these pictures with you. 😉
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February 8, 2011 at 6:32 am
Lovely!!
It looks nice and warm. Which is excellent, given that Colorado has decided to finally have winter.
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February 8, 2011 at 6:59 am
Cathy,
Thanks again for the burro/donkey tail advice. You do rock. 🙂
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February 8, 2011 at 6:48 am
Looks like you had a terrific weekend!
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February 8, 2011 at 6:59 am
Deb,
We did! Can’t wait until June…
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February 8, 2011 at 6:49 am
These are so beautiful! I wonder… would we see all this beauty if we didn’t carry a camera with us all the time?
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February 8, 2011 at 7:01 am
Sandra,
I wonder the same thing. (Great minds obviously think alike.) 🙂
There’s a quote from Confucius: “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Perhaps carrying a camera with us reminds us to look? And to look in different ways?
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February 8, 2011 at 10:22 am
I am sure it does, different ways, different angles. I think it enriches us! Keep the camera close:))
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February 8, 2011 at 7:24 am
I would LOVE a cactus garden, but 1. I always kill them. 2. We get too much “winter” to have them here.
Beautiful shots. Thanks for sharing.
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February 8, 2011 at 6:57 pm
CeeCee,
Have you tried growing cholla or prickly pear cactus?
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February 8, 2011 at 7:36 am
Justina, I just looked at yesterday’s and today’s pictures. These are beautiful. Your photography skills and your eye for the extraordinary is evident in all of your photos.
❤ You
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February 8, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Auntie Sharon,
Thank you so much. You made my day.
Love you. xoxo
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February 8, 2011 at 8:39 am
These are wonderful photos! I attended a lecture last night about the Boyce Thomson Arboretum. It is a wonderful 400 acre site with plant species from all over the world. If you ever get over to Superior, Arizona it would be a great place for you to visit.
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February 8, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Rosanne,
Thanks! I looked up the Boyce Thomson Arboretum. It’s definitely my kind of place and now officially on my list.
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February 8, 2011 at 10:05 am
More and more excellent stuff to look at!!!!
Love that coiled up thing….. And the pointy thing after it, with the teeny white dots…………..
🙂
I hope I will draw enough inspiration from your excellent pics to get off my dead *** and go to our botanical garden! 🙂
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February 8, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Vicki,
Do it, do it, do it! I wish we lived closer too… it would be awesome to visit these places together. 🙂
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February 11, 2011 at 6:46 am
That would be the best. 🙂
In the mean time, I am so glad we can share this way. 🙂
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February 8, 2011 at 1:16 pm
I love this plants and their power to manage with less. What a miracle to see what happens in the desert, when it starts raining after a long period of drought!
Thanks for sharing the trip!
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February 8, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Pia,
You’re right… it is miraculous how things (flora and fauna both) adapt and respond.
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