| All afternoon, she had served as my assistant and directress in pruning some ocotillo, and was enough exhilarated by the results to turn my attention to our overgrown hedge of mixed olive and oleander. |
| I could hear my wife calling my name, beyond the shorn hedge and the pruned ocotillo. |
| As we began descending from mountains into the desert, I saw agaves, cacti, and ocotillo thriving on the dry, rugged slopes. |
| The most common shrubs are creosote bush, ocotillo, and bur sage. |
| The spindly, 15-foottall branches of the ocotillo, bare and dead-looking things under dry conditions, are fully leafed out. |
| Flanked by ocotillo and prickly pear, you'll make an easy half-day ride to the Telephone Canyon backcountry campsite. |
