Tucson East Home | An ongoing meditation on Agaves and related xerophytes | Highlights of spring 2007 III | 2007 Highlights IV | Spring 2008 I | Spring 2008 II | Highlights of Spring 2007 II | Highlights of spring 2007 I | More Agave Shots | More highlights of 2006 | Garden Troubles | More cactus highlights from 2006 | Some other interesting perennials | Some shots from our old house, about a mile south | Cold Weather Shots | Hardy Succulents May 2005 | Several nice shots | Spring 2005 | Various non-succulent flowers | One of the hardy Echinocereus | Desert Montage May 2004 | Echinocactus texensis hardy horse crippler from El Paso | Trichocereus and zinnia | Some shots of my camellias | Mahonia Xmedia in late winter | Assorted Photos | Assorted garden plants | East Bed & Me | Interesting Blooms | Some Highlights 2005 | First Time Blooms in this Garden | Desert Hyssop | More Hardy Cacti | Contact Me at allenhir@earthlink.net Trichocereus and zinnia On the left is an unknown Trichocereus-winter hardy for 4 winters. It appears allied to pasacana. On the right is the winter hardy southwestern native Zinnia grandiflora. It sits under a small house eve. It receives no other protection. It has endured down to ~7°F The Sedum is, I think, palmeri?? The succulent on the right is one of the winter hardy South African Mesems Al Hirsh's Garden