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Mesmerizing Places to Watch Flowers Bloom - Sonora Desert, Arizona
Because there’s no better way exalt the end of winter than with millions of tulips, poppies and roses.
Outside of Tucson, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum—home to a cactus garden with native wildflowers and even a butterfly garden—has two flowering peaks, in April and again in early fall (after August's monsoon rains). Still, in this abnormally lush desert, there's always something in bloom. By May, watch prickly pears sprout on the cacti and desert ironwood trees grow soft coatings of lavender flowers.
By Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure
Smithsonian.com
March 3, 2017
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