Tucson East
Assorted garden plants
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Views from various parts of the garden

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Fuchsia megellanica 'Riccartoni' winter hardy Fuchsia with Begonia evansiana

In the east bed with very high indirect light. The pink flower is Linaria purpurea, common Toadflax.

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Agave parryi with desert 4 o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora, summer 2004

Little Agave on the left is deserti. It has survived winter 2004-05

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Phygelius aquaelis in bloom summer 2004. common name is cape fuchsia

Essentially a perennial in this climate

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Horned Poppy, an evergreen relative of Papaver.

Growing right in front of the east Agave group.

Al Hirsh's Garden