Tucson East
East Bed & Me
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Photos from the light shade east bed

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Fuchsia regia. Perfectly winter hardy heat and humidity loving Fuchsia from southern Brazil. Could be the parent of a new race of truly hardy (heat and cold) Fuchsias for eastern North America if someone cared to make the crosses.

The Gardener Himself standing in the east driveway
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Picture taken summer 2004 by my daughter, Ilana, age 10

Not advice to weed cacti in sandals

Podocarpus chinensis and Tetrapanax papyrifera
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Podocarpus is fully hardy zone 7a, Tetrapanax is 'Steroidal Giant'

Al Hirsh's Garden