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c/botany-lovers•tara15tara15•12d ago

Visited the Denver Botanic Gardens yesterday and honestly, their new 'zero-water' native plant section looks kind of sad.

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nathan289
nathan28912d ago
Nah, it's not sad. That's just how those plants look. They're built for dry ground, not a lush garden.
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alice_anderson35
You're right about the plants being built for dry ground, @nathan289, but it's more about what we expect from them. We call a cactus sad because we're judging it by rose standards. Its whole beauty is in surviving where nothing else can. That toughness is the point, not some failure to be leafy. It's like being disappointed a desert isn't a rainforest.
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