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Written by Jeff

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This is the time of year that people living in the Sonoran Desert love. We have 70-degree and 80-degree weather when much of the country is trying to get out from under the snow. Since we have mild winters (this year we had no frost in my neighborhood), some of our plants winter over and begin to do very well when the weather shows the first signs of warming.

Below are several pictures of agaves and aloes taken at the Desert Botanical Garden during the past few weeks. I think you will like what you see.

Pictured below is an agave growing amid a rock formation.

This is wildflower season and agaves are at home amid the wildflowers and perennials. They often make a great contrast. This year’s early wildflowers may have been somewhat diminished by the abundance of rain.

Another picture of an agave with flowers.

There are a great variety of agaves. Some are big and some are small. There are color and texture variations as demonstrated by the picture of the red-toothed agave below.

While the agaves were beginning to awaken to the warm weather, aloes were putting on a show of their own with their flower spikes held high. The agave pictured below might be BLUE ELF which is a popular agave blooming in late winter or early spring.

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