What’s better than a beautiful garden full of strange cacti and succulents? How about when they’re decked out with lights and glowing apparatuses, looking like a Christmas-tree farm imported from an alien and radioactive planet?

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Once again it’s time for the Garden of D’Lights at Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft Garden, a 3.5 acre parcel that – so it happens – last year ranked the most beautiful garden in the world on Tripadvisor. Running on select nights until Jan. 11, the annual show offers the chance to see desert-adapted plants turned into spiny silhouettes by the force of visible-from-space holiday lights.

“See the garden and plant collection transform into a dazzling, water-wise wonderland illuminated with thousands of colorful lights, sculptures and lasers,” write the

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