Sunland Cactus Nursery

On my trip to Palm Springs in early on March, Mariscal wasn't the only succulent plant nursery nosotros visited. In fact, our minute plant nursery goal was fifty-fifty bigger!

I'd offset pop off aware of Sunland Cactus Nursery through a blurb in Sunset Magazine. Wouldn't you lot desire to pop off after reading this?
For most of the journeying to this Desert Hot Springs nursery, you’ll live cursing the people (that would live us) who told you lot well-nigh it. You drive downwardly desolate Dillon Road, whose undulations brand you lot experience you’re riding a roller coaster, together with start out to worry that you’re nowhere but inward the middle of meth country. Then, at last, you lot spot it—a champaign of blue-green spiky orbs growing inward 24-inch wooden tree boxes—and hit thank you lot to the heavens.
The brusk article went on speak well-nigh riding inward a golf game cart through "rows of containerized palms, agave, together with euphorbia, all of them seemingly waiting to live moved from the plant nursery to your forepart yard."

Brilliant slice of writing, Sunset! It's the best promotion for a plant nursery I tin imagine, particularly for customers alongside a fleck of an adventurous streak.

Dillon Road didn't quite accomplish roller coaster marker but the undulations did brand me a fleck queasy, likely because I was driving equally good fast. But then, in that location was hardly anybody else on the road. We stopped at the address given inward Sunset Magazine, 28900 Pushawalla St inward Desert Hot Springs, together with began to explore.

This is the offset photograph I took:


Talk well-nigh instant acquit on inward your garden!

The plant nursery wasn't equally large equally I had imagined together with it was a fleck to a greater extent than unkempt than I was used to from similar places.


Still, in that location were thousands of cactus together with succulents to marvel at.




Here's an illustration of how easily precisely about cactus propagate. This is the newspaper spine cactus (Tephrocactus articulatus). As it gets taller, the piece of work past times segments larn top-heavy, intermission off, together with autumn to the ground.


And earlier you lot know it, they bring rooted together with begun to grow, eventually shedding segments of their own. Eventually you lot terminate upward alongside this:


The shrub/tree inward the photograph higher upward together with below, past times the way, is Euphorbia tirucalli. For those of us living inward a climate where winters aren't equally mild equally inward Palm Springs, it's commonly a container found that needs protecting on mutual frigidity nights. It's the all-green version of the pop 'Sticks on Fire'. And yes, it tin pop off a shrub or fifty-fifty a pocket-size tree!

In the photograph below, you lot tin come across Euphorbia tirucalli divisions rooting inward 5-gallon pots.


Agaves growing inward the ground, waiting to live dug upward for installation inward a client's garden:


Half the infinite inward the hoop houses seemed to live occupied past times golden barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii):





Did I refer they had golden barrel cactus?

Even multi-headed clones:


The plants exterior seemed to live arranged inward no logical order. I bring no work alongside that. It only requires a fleck to a greater extent than exploring.


This is what happens when an octopus agave (Agave vilmoriniana) flowers together with is left to its ain devices. Eventually the bulbils drib off together with shape an impenetrable tangle that reminded me of a writhing majority of babe eels:


It was at this indicate that i of my friends wanted to know the toll of a certainly found together with walked over to the kids playing inward forepart of what looked similar a regular house. They said to enquire "over at the nursery." Over at the nursery? What was this then?

It turns out it was not the principal nursery, precisely the "annex." The principal plant nursery was a brusk distance downwardly the road. And it was much larger than the annex. Yes, in that location were golf game carts, together with I talked to tourists from Saskatchewan, Canada who had gotten a ride inward one. (They had also read the Sunset Magazine blurb.) We were offered a ride equally good after on, but since all I had was bought a 1-gallon Euphorbia tirucalli 'Sticks on Fire' I felt a fleck light-headed together with declined.

The principal plant nursery has dozens of rows of plants inward all sizes, generally five gallon together with up. In add-on to cactus together with succulents, they also ship palm trees--some thus large that heavy mechanism is needed to install them. I had expended most of my picture-taking unloose energy inward the annex together with genuinely took fewer photos inward the principal nursery. Here is a selection.

Octotillo (Fouquieria splendens)

Beaked yucca (Yucca rostrata)

Argentine golden saguaro (Trichocereus terscheckii)

More Trichocereus terscheckii

The agave was ho-hum, but banking venture gibe out the size of that Republic of Madagascar palm (Pachypodium lamerei)!

Aloe 'Blue Elf', inward illustration you lot desire to practise your ain Sunnylands at home

Agave americana 'Marginata'

Monstrose Cereus sp.

Ferocactus glaucescens

Fire barrel (Fercocactus cylindraceus)

Fire barrel (Fercocactus cylindraceus)

Agave geminiflora and Agave applanata 'Cream Spike'
And finally a few photos of the golden barrel fields. I bring a feeling they used to live to a greater extent than extensive; Sunland must bring sold a lot of specimens inward recent years. It seems that every other describe of piece of work solid inward Palm Springs has a golden barrel or 2 inward front.



So in that location you lot bring it: Another massive cactus together with succulent plant nursery inward the Inland Empire. I wonder if these places are equally special to the people living in that location equally they are to visitors similar me?

My solely purchase: a 1-gallon Euphorbia tirucalli 'Sticks on Fire' alongside beautiful coloration. Bargain-priced at $6. You tin come across it here (first photo).





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