There is just something about plants growing out of a vertical wall that fascinates people, myself included. These gravity-defying plants pepper the thousand foot walls of Zion Canyon at Zion National Park, latching on to any crack or ledge they can dig their roots in to, catching the rare rain water and seep springs flowing out of the sandstone in order to survive. Visit the canyon during the right time of year and the walls pop with the yellows, reds, and purples of wildflowers such as columbine and indian paintbrush. The colony of yellow columbines pictured above found themselves a somewhat sheltered depression in the canyon wall and quickly took root, creating a piller of green and yellow thirty feet high. If you've never experienced the hanging gardens within Zion Canyon I highly recommend doing so!
Leave me a comment below and tell me if you've ever seen hanging gardens, at Zion or elsewhere.
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