These formations run in broad escarpments jutting above the landscape, creating solid walls and occasionally breaking into tall sections, like stubby sandstone fingers reaching towards the sky.

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Keith Wagner, but it's one of the first plants to blossom in the spring, making it a solid choice for a Northern courtyard landscape.

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Soon the window glass becomes cool to touch as the train climbs more than 1, 000 metres into a bare, otherworldly landscape of boulders and snowdrifts, navigating beautiful but treacherous mountain country through high passes and tunnels hewn from solid rock.

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