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Good Day Fellow Steemians, 

During our time in Arizona, We all ventured out to the Desert Botanical Gardens. It was a short 30-minute Drive, and the results was absolutely breathtaking. With being a brand new plant mom, Being in this environment was extremely exciting for me. Unfortunately where I live, I can't have any of these Lovely plants. I mean, I can have them inside my house, but I would have to really boost my humidity in my house, and that's something that I can't particularly do. But that does not and will not stop me from possibly trying to get my hands on smaller varieties of some of these beautiful plants.

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This place cost $25 per person to enter, kids under 3 were free. And it homed over 50,000 Varieties of different types of trees, fruit trees, succulents, cactuses, house plants, outdoor landscape plants and so so so much more. At the time we went they had a large event going on throughout the garden. The event was over 1,000 extremely large, biodegradable, recyclable, plastic animals of different colours. I'll post a picture of a couple of them down below, There were wolves, bunnies, Birds, meerkats and snails. 

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There are five different Trails, each with a different theme. They Loop, twist, and give you amazing views, and most importantly... Show you how beautiful plants can survive in the desert. It was a little bit interesting, a lot of the trees had no leaves. We did go when Arizona is winter, but our winter is snow and extremely frigid temperatures, Therefore our leaves on our trees where I come from, fall off. But it was interesting to see their weather with it being 20 Celsius, and the leaves not being on the trees was extremely interesting to us Canadians.

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Green trunk and no leaves.. so unique!

Not only did I notice that it was just a Choose Your Own Adventure type self-guided Trail. You can also go down the route of having a employee do detailed trails and guided Trails explaining each plant and tell you all about it. They also cater to parties; such as birthday, seasonal activities, concerts, while also housing a small but lovely gift shop with a variety of different items to bring back. I even got the chance to purchase a small container of seeds, that had no soil, therefore I could bring it back on the plane with me and attempt to grow my own Cactus tree at home. 

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Agave, what tequilla is made of!!! 


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Whiteclaw will have a special place in my heart forever, it also came everywhere with me ;)

Personally, it is a great family activity to do in the winter time or the summertime. With just your family or a bunch of your friends. It's definitely a five out of five on my star scale, and I would definitely go back there in a heartbeat. We all had a wonderful time and planing our next trip asap! 

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"Somtimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory"
-Dr. Suess

XOXO,
MM