Tucson East
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These are photographs of my experimental exotic garden in Silver Spring, MD

In my garden I have the goal of intimately mixing cold hardy xerophytes and water loving ornamentals by controlling the edaphic environments of the plants. I have an extremely wide range of ornamentals under cultivation as a result of this eclectic theme.
The website was inadvertently named by my next door neighbor, Dave. He has a wicked sense of humor, and, as I began to construct the garden 6 years ago by chopping down the two big maples in front of the house and planting many cacti and large yucca, he just stared at the project and said "It looks like Tucson East". I instantly fell in love with the moniker and thus the name of the site.

Agave neomexicana blooming spring 2004
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Agave planted July 2003


You can Email me at allenhir@earthlink.net

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