Pacific Northwest Gardening: Garden pics " I spied with my camera's eye....." #3, 0 by Aguane

Aguane wrote:
Yes, I'm sorta new to the forum. I 'watch' Nw Gardening because I adore the plants that grow in the NW. Don't much care for the SW plants but I've come to really appreciate anything that can thrive and or survive life in the Sonoran desert. I'm a native of San Francisco so that may explain my affinity for NW.

Rarejem- everything, EVERYTHING, you say is true. Everything in AZ has thorns and is poisonous... plants and animals. This zone is a zone of huge contrast. Everything is a drama. Only thing is the drama is short lived. HOT for 6 months. Glorious for 4 months and 2 months of horrid freeze or monsoon/humidity. Not bad though! My Key Lime is down right dangerous with the thorns! I have an Arizona Sweet orange tree that produces a good 500-700 fruit a year and I cannot tell you how delicious this orange is. Bouganvilla is thorny, cactus seem tame compared to some citrus.

Coming from San Francisco I miss the earthquakes. I think we have incidences of earthquakes around us but nothing "at home" yet. I can see from the landscape, however, we have had seismic activity... Moon Mtn near me surely was once an active volcano.