Wanting to experience even more desert plant life we visited the Desert Botanical Garden today and it was incredible. Everywhere you looked there were great displays. It was a great day to walk around and take in the great scenery and learn more about various cactus and plants.

Dense garden bed of prickly pear and cholla cacti with saguaro and ocotillo rising behind them under a clear blue sky. *A dense field of various cactus.* Cluster of barrel cacti with vivid red spines covering their ribbed green bodies, set among desert scrub and soil. *I loved the red needles on these cactus.* Tall saguaro cactus flanked by a bushy cholla cactus on the left and purple prickly pear cactus on the right, with a palo verde tree and blue sky behind. *Saguaro cactus with Cholla cactus in the foreground.* Visitors walk a paved path past towering Cardon cactus and other desert plants beside an adobe-style building under a clear blue sky. *At first we thought these giants were Saguaro but they are actually [Cardon cactus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycereus_pringlei) that grow even bigger. They are less resilient to cold so they do not grow native in Arizona.* Crested saguaro cactus with a large fan-shaped cristate growth on top, surrounded by desert shrubs under a clear blue sky. *Very rare [Crested Saguaro](https://www.nps.gov/sagu/learn/nature/why_crested.htm) cactus.* Three tall yellow-green Chihuly blown-glass tower sculptures rise from a desert garden with small cacti and stone retaining walls. *These [Chihuly](https://www.chihuly.com) glass sculptures were incredible.*