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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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A staple of the villages in the Valle de Tehuacán and nearby Oaxaca is the cactus.
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Visit the the historic village of Santiago de K, high in the foothills of the Andes.
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Our journey to the highest desert in the world begins in Potosi, in southwestern Bolivia.
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