Stopping past times
Mariscal Cactus & Succulents in Desert Hot Springs seems to cause got cash inwards one's chips a fleck of a tradition whenever I'm inwards the Palm Springs area. This was my 3rd visit; I had previously stopped inwards
February 2011 as well as in
January 2015. My Portland friends, amongst whom I was staying inwards Palm Springs, are fans, too, therefore our Sat (March 4) began amongst an outing to Mariscal.
The plant nursery is located exterior the town of Desert Hot Springs on a route that seems to cash inwards one's chips on forever. Not far away, there's a plain of air current turbines that seems to survive bigger every fourth dimension I catch (wind ability is large concern here). In early on March, at that spot was yet snowfall on the mountains, which added a picture-postcard beauty.
Mariscal doesn't cause got a parking lot per se; you lot precisely common exterior the chain-link fence. While they're opened upwards to the public, they're clearly a wholesale nursery, catering primarily to landscaping professionals.
This isn't the form of plant nursery you lot cash inwards one's chips to if you're non certain what you lot desire or if you lot involve a lot of hand-holding. But if you lot honey the thrill of walking through aisle upon aisle of succulents, non knowing what you lot mightiness discovery next, as well as therefore this house is for you.
While Mariscal has a alternative of smaller plants, almost are inwards 5- or 15-gallon pots or 24-inch wooden boxes--instant behave upon inwards your garden if you lot cause got the infinite as well as $$$.
Virtually aught is labeled. As I said, this is non a pretty retail plant nursery amongst a high staff-to-customer ratio. Either you're able to set what you lot desire or you lot discovery a plant nursery employee. They're busy doing their ain function but volition assist if you lot inquire them. Otherwise they teach out you lot be, which I truly appreciate.
There are lots of droolworthy plants. As I was walking around, I was playing out my favorite scenario inwards my head, pretending I had precisely bought a house nearby amongst a pair of acres of bare dirt. My mission straightaway was to arrive at total them amongst whatever plants I wanted, coin beingness no object. That, my friends, is the Definition of gardening freedom!
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| LEFT: Agave geminiflora RIGHT: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fleck of a head-scratcher for me, but possibly Agave ellemeetiana |
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| Agave 'Blue Glow' (front), Agave bovicornuta (middle), Pachycereus marginatus (back) |
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| Mexican debate send service (Pachycereus marginatus) on the left, cardon (Pachycereus pringlei) on the right |
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| Silver torch (Cleistocactus strausii) |
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| Argentine golden saguaro (Trichocereus terscheckii), not related to the "real" saguaro |
While Mariscal doesn't cause got a huge alternative of aloes, what they did cause got looked happy as well as healthy. And many were inwards bloom.
My found rhythm out on this trip was Aloe vaombe, a stunning tree aloe from Madagascar. Look at this beauty:
I honey the deeply channeled leaves as well as the hue they accept on when stressed.
They also had Aloe ferox with distinctly bluish leaves. Usually they're much greener. Maybe these were hybrids? Again, no labels.
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| Sticks on burn downwards (Euphorbia tirucalli) as well as crown of thorns (Euphorbia milii) |
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| Aloe 'Blue Elf' as well as teddy behave cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii) |
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| Teddy behave cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii) as well as 'Old Mexico' prickly pear (Opuntia gomei 'Old Mexico') |
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| Baby Mexican debate send service cactus (Pachycereus marginatus) |
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| I actually liked this arrangement, peculiarly the flowering crassula side past times side to the Indian corn cob cactus (Euphorbia mammillaris forma variegata, i.e. non a cactus at all) |
The abundant wintertime rains this yr cause got been a boon to all plants, including--especially!--weeds. The plant nursery guy I talked to admitted that they were having a difficult fourth dimension getting the weeds nether control. You'll consider why inwards these photos:
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| Ferocactus glaucescens |
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| Opuntia basilaris |
Getting dense clumps of weeds out of pots filled amongst prickly cactus cannot survive fun!
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| Opuntia macrocentra |
One terminal photograph from the dorsum corner of the nursery. Golden barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii) continues to survive the almost pop cactus inwards landscaping. Mariscal had a large release of them inwards unlike sizes:
Living inwards an expanse where nurseries at best ship a pocket-size alternative of cactus as well as succulents tucked away inwards a corner, I'm yet blown away past times what you lot tin discovery at a specialty succulent plant nursery similar Mariscal!
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