In science, beauty. In beauty, science. Daily. April 13, 2006 Desert Garden in Huntington Botanical Gardens A small scene packed with diversity of form and colour from the 4ha (10 acres) Desert Garden at Huntington Botanical Gardens. Instead of me pointing out the desert adaptations visible in the photograph, I'll open it up for you to identify and elaborate in the comments today. I quickly count five visible phenomena that help these plants survive in the desert, but there are likely more. For local readers of BPotD, I've been informed that tickets remain available for tonight's lecture by Robert Bateman on “Thinking Like a Mountain�? The event is part of a biodiversity lecture series hosted by the in-construction Beaty Museum of Natural History at UBC. I highly encourage you to attend. Photography resource link: I missed out on attending / promoting a few local photographic highlights while away, including Ron Long's Cedar Series Lecture about last year's wildflower display at Death Valley (this year was a below-average to average year) and David Blevin's workshops �?I've previously linked to David's work on BPotD, but there's been a new addition to the site worth investigating: “A Nature Guide to Boundary Bay�?/A> promotes a book with David's photography and Anne Murray's writing. However, it also stands as a resource web site in its own right, particularly since the site includes a number of photographs which didn't make it into the book