Orange Blossom Time

It's easy to take a picture to share with you.  I just wish I could capture the fragrance to share with you also!  It is my favorite time in AZ, the air is filled with the heavenly fragrance of orange blossoms!  As we leave this beautiful sunshine state and head home for God's Country, Minnesota, we leave behind this lovely fragrance in the air!

Zeriscape Garden continued

Globe Mallow

Yes, there was a bit of color showing in March!  A very common perennial grown pretty much throughout the US!  Very hardy, loves sun and tolerates most types of soil and thrives without much moisture!  The desert flowers had not started blooming yet when we were there.

Zeriscape Garden continued

The Scottsdale Xeriscape Garden at Chaparral Park provides an educational resource where growing regionally appropriate plants also grows public awareness to reduce outdoor water use, fosters development of sustainable landscaping and enlists community participation to conserve water resources for the future. 

This type of garden uses plants, sculpture and hardscape using area rocks to provide a beautiful landscape to stroll through.  

Zeriscape Garden

We went exploring Scottsdale recently and found this unusual public garden.  It is a Zeriscape Garden designed with plants that will thrive in areas that do not have much moisture but lots of heat and sun most of the year.  There were areas that were in a somewhat dormant state due to the season but also areas that were very attractive, such as this view along the walkways.

AZ Beautiful!

Found this beauty in a entrance to a dog park in Scottsdale recently!  No label to identify it but we sure couldn't resist a few pictures.  It was a large shrub and was covered in these blossoms, which were about the size of my closed  fist!  

AZ Desert in bloom

Poppies!

We recently took a last drive to see some blooming desert flowers before to head back to MN!  This is our last year for being snowbirds in AZ!  It's been 13 winters without snow and cold and time to shift our winter lifestyle once more.

Nice we had enough moisture to get an abundant bloom of desert flowers this year to provide some good memories of these lovely patches of color!

Sunshine!

Just a bit of sunshine from AZ.  Just couldn't resist sharing this sight I found yesterday in the neighborhood!   There were three front yards that were covered!