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The Desert Speaks
People and Their Prickly Plants
Season 14
Episode 1403
Head to Scottsdale, Arizona to see the largest private collection of desert-area plants in the world. Visit the Boyce Thompson Arboretum and an amazing collection at Bach’s Nursery in Tucson where they have a better success rate with their individually raised saguaro cacti than Mother Nature herself. Finally, travel to Los Angeles for North America’s largest cactus and succulent show.
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