(1) The mushroom cloud diminished until it was no bigger than a man-sized saguaro , a desert cactus.(2) The smell of creosote bush after rain, the columnar saguaro , the lime green palo verde tree - this is my landscape.(3) To me, a forest of giant saguaro cacti is more familiar and comprehensible than a grove of river birches.(4) Strolling through the mostly outdoor museum is like taking a desert hike among the saguaro cacti - with drinking fountains everywhere.(5) Rising above them, mountains climbed past saguaro and organ pipe cactus to fields of snow so peaceful that he kept riding only to reach them as the trail ascended toward the distant passes.(6) There was neither road nor house, only a saguaro here, a barrel cactus there, a lot of sand underfoot, and even more sun overhead.(7) ‘It's during the hottest and driest time of the year that the saguaro actually start producing fruit,’ he says.(8) To give some perspective on the desert's time frame, it takes a saguaro 10 years to grow its first 1 1/2 inches.(9) Being in the desert was a new experience for me, a native Westerner who had never seen birds nesting in a saguaro nor tasted a prickly pear margarita.(10) He lay in the shade of a giant saguaro while the mare stood nearby.(11) The landscape is totally different from that of the area surrounding the resorts, with a wide variety of spectacular plant life, including the saguaro cacti and century plants.(12) We are rich with saguaros , prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.(13) The phrase ‘lush desert’ may reek of oxymoron, but in springtime the Sonoran - with its massive saguaros and organ-pipe cacti, as well as Mexican gold poppies, magenta owl clover, and indigo desert lupine - is just that.(14) The wind rustles the brittle-bush and whispers its way though the clustered needles of saguaros , the hallmark cactus of the Sonoran Desert.(15) In addition, few cacti should show extensive surface injuries if saguaros live for long time periods.(16) The giant saguaro cactus is evoked by five tall figures.
