The Wonders of the Desert Garden (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

The Barbarian Nurseries

Wandering deeper into the stacks, she came upon a book titled The Wonders of the Desert Garden. Its cacti and assorted succulents caught her interest, as did a chapter called “Southern California: the Sonoran Possibilities” that carried several photographs of the agave, aloe, and the Golden Barrel cacti in the Huntington Gardens in San Marino.