Outside of San Miguel de Allende, el Charco del Ingenio botanical garden protects a beautiful array of la naturaleza y la flora mexicana: maguey; nopal; and all kinds of cactus, from small buttons that nestle close to the ground to towering sentinels that seem to guard the silence of the desert. The dry chaparral landscape is cut by a narrow canyon, vibrantly green from a small stream. Deep in the canyon, a pool (el charco from which the garden takes its name) is said to be inhabited by an ancient and powerful spirit. A great egret, brilliantly white, quietly stalked its edges.
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