It's especially lovely in the spring because, if there's any rain, all the cacti flower.

We bed down as the cactus flowers in our courtyard close.

The cactus flowers are pollinated by insects, probably including bees, ants, and beetles.

The cactus flowers in the early spring.

It also seeks out cactus fruit for consumption.

Typical dishes include pozole, tamales, milk candies and cajeta (dulce de leche) and fruits such as cactus fruit, oranges and figs preserved in sugar.

Plant species still commonly used include mesquite beans, nopal and other cactus, and various cactus fruit such as tunas (cactus pears) and xoconostle.

Its flowers are yellow to red-orange and appear atop the cactus fruit during the summer months.

Traditional foods included acorns, cactus fruit, seeds, berries, deer, quail, rabbits, and other small game.

It has excellent shopping and eating outlets, as well as a swimming pool and a rooftop cactus garden.

You'll have a view of either the courtyard or the cactus garden from your room and there's an outdoor pool, rooftop hot tub and bikes for hire.

The garden includes a butterfly house, cactus garden, exhibition spaces, library, and pond.

The installation also contains a multipurpose room, gift shop and a cactus garden.

Brilliantly sculptural, ever so cool and practically maintenance-free, they can be grouped in a big dish with gritty, well-drained compost to create your own cacti garden.

This one was converted into a massive flowerpot with a large nopal cactus plant.

To be inducted they must each find and bring back a catalina cacti, a cactus plant.

Here, he displays anything from a responsive staircase that plays the scale as you climb it to a mathematical line-up of cactus plants.

Here, the plants are often succulents or cacti planted in a terrarium or bowl (although it's more fun to plant your own than buy ready-made).

It contains one of the smallest cactus plants you are ever likely to see.

It has gained fame due to its capability of using a twig, stick, or cactus spine as a tool so it has been nicknamed the carpenter finch.

Cactus spines are produced from specialized structures called areoles, a kind of highly reduced branch.

Egg sticks that resemble cactus spines develop and hatch in 2530 days.

For example, columnar cactus spines grow from the apex of the plant.

A different type allows the bird to use cactus spines to spear insects in the bark of trees.

Apparently galanthus (snowdrops) and the saguaro cactus score maximum points — the most valuable of which merit tailored garden security and specialist insurance policies.

In it he placed a saguaro cactus, although it was well outside the naturally occurring area for this plant.

It includes one of the most famous species of succulents, the giant saguaro cactus.

After he and a friend had successfully destroyed a smaller one, they decided to destroy a saguaro cactus.

Saguaro cactuses can weigh more than several thousand pounds, depending on how much water they are holding.