When Las Ventanas al Paraiso opened nearly 30 years ago, it made a deliberate choice: rather than importing tropical planting, the resort would work with the desert it was built in. The result is a xeriscape landscape where endemic agave, cactus and aloe thrive, many of them grown on Gregorio Urbina Nieto's own farm and transplanted here over more than two decades of careful cultivation.

On this guided walk, Gregorio shares the thinking behind each planting decision, explaining how drought-resistant flora reduces water consumption while creating habitat for native wildlife. A quietly revelatory look at how a resort can belong to its landscape rather than fight it.