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Cactus Garden
A cactarium or cactuario (from Latin, ''cactarium'') is a garden dedicated to the planting of cactus, cacti. While they generally specialize in collecting cacti, they can also include other desert plants such as Succulent plant, sabla, Agave , agaves or Crassulaceae, although this would better be termed "xeriscaping''"''. Cacti are succulent , succulent plants native to the American continent, typical of arid environments. They require dry conditions and therefore, in many countries, the collections are kept in greenhouses that protect from rain. Due to their low need for water, they are a sustainable landscaping option. Cactariums also tend to host plants from other botanical families, native to the Desert, desert regions of the world. History A cactus garden is a garden for the cultivation and display with many types of cacti. Cacti, due to their unusual appearance for Europeans, attracted the attention of the first European colonization of the Americas, European colonizer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Cactualdea, La Aldea De San Nicolas, Gran Canaria, Spain (8)
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Rebutia
''Rebutia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cactaceae, native to Bolivia and Argentina. The limits of the genus have varied widely, depending on whether genera such as ''Aylostera'' and ''Weingartia'' are included or treated separately. , Plants of the World Online accepted only three species of ''Rebutia''. A very large number of plants that have been treated in cultivation as species of ''Rebutia'' are now generally regarded as varieties, forms or synonyms of a much smaller number of species, or have been transferred to other genera. Plants treated as ''Rebutia'' are generally small, colorful cacti, globular in form, which freely produce flowers that are relatively large in relation to the body. They have no distinctive ribs, but do have regularly arranged small tubercles. They are considered fairly easy to grow and they may produce large quantities of seeds that germinate freely around the parent plant. Taxonomy The genus was designated in 1895 by Karl Moritz Schu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel M Botanical Cactus Garden
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Desert Botanical Garden
Desert Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in Papago Park, at 1201 N. Galvin Parkway in Phoenix, central Arizona. Founded by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society in 1937 and established at this site in 1939, the garden now has more than 50,000 plants in more than 4,000 taxa, one-third of which are native to the area, including 379 species which are rare, threatened or endangered. Of special note are the rich collections of agave (4,026 plants in 248 taxa) and cacti (13,973 plants in 1,320 taxa), especially the Opuntia sub-family. Plants from less extreme climate conditions are protected under shadehouses. It focuses on plants adapted to desert conditions, including an Australian collection, a Baja California collection and a South American collection. Several ecosystems are represented: a mesquite bosque, semi-desert grassland, and upland chaparral. Desert Botanical Garden has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride. History In the 1930s, a small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quito Botanical Garden
Quito Botanical Garden () is a park, botanical garden, arboretum and greenhouse of 18,600 square meters in the city of Quito, Ecuador. It houses species of plants of the country (Ecuador is among the 17 richest countries in the world in native botanical species, an updated study on the classified Ecuadorian flora determined the existence of 17,000 species). The identification code of the ''Botanical Garden Quito ''as a member of the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), as well as the initials of its herbarium, is QUITO. ...
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Jardin Botanique D'Èze
The Jardin botanique d'Èze, also called the Jardin exotique d'Èze or simply the Jardin d'Èze, is a botanical garden located on the Place du Général de Gaulle in Èze, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. The garden was created after World War II on a chateau's ruins by town mayor André Gianton and Jean Gastaud of the Jardin Exotique de Monaco. It is sited on steep terrain falling over 400 meters to the sea with panoramic views of the coast, and known for its impressive collection of cactus and succulents from the Mediterranean region, Africa, and the Americas. Collection Today the garden's collections include ''Cephalocereus senilis'', ''Echinocactus grusonii'', ''Ferocactus pilosus'', ''Opuntia spp.'', ''Neobuxbaumia polylopha'', and '':species:Trichocereus pasacana, Trichocereus pasacana'', as well as the succulents ''Aeonium arboreum'', ''Aeonium canariense'', ''Agave americana var. picta'', ''Agave americana var. marginata'', ''Agave salmiana'', ''Aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntington Desert Garden
The Huntington Desert Garden is part of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The Desert Garden is one of the world's largest and oldest collections of cacti, succulents and other desert plants, collected from throughout the world. It contains plants from extreme environments, many of which were acquired by Henry E. Huntington and William Hertrich (the garden's first curator) in trips taken to several countries in North, Central and South America. History One of the Huntington Library's most botanically important gardens, the Desert Garden brought together a group of plants that were largely unknown and unappreciated in the early 1900s. Featuring a broad category of xerophytes (aridity-adapted plants), the Desert Garden grew to preeminence and remains today among the world's finest, with more than 5,000 species in the 10 acre (4 ha) garden. Desert Garden collections :''Also see:'' Desert Garden Conservatory The most signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubuque Arboretum And Botanical Gardens
The Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, or Marshall Park, is a arboretum and botanical gardens established in 1980. The park's address is 3800 Arboretum Drive, Dubuque, Iowa. It is open, without charge, daily from dawn to dusk throughout the year. The arboretum is the largest in the United States staffed entirely by volunteers. About 300 community volunteers help maintain the gardens. History The body of a woman was found in the park in February 2021. Her ex-boyfriend was found guilty of the murder. See also *Parks in Dubuque, Iowa *List of botanical gardens in the United States *Herb garden References External linksDubuque Arboretum & Botanical Gardens Website Gardens in Iowa Arboreta in Iowa Botanical gardens in Iowa {{Commons category, Botanical gardens in Iowa Botanical gardens Iowa Botanical gardens A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert City
Desert City is a plant nursery and botanical garden in San Sebastián de los Reyes, near Madrid, Spain, that cultivates and sells xerophytic plants, including cacti, succulents and native plants from the Mediterranean region.Desert City Madrid Destino Cultura Turismo y Negocio S. A. It is Europe's largest .Teddy Minfor New ‘Desert City’ in Madrid Has Over 400 Species of Cactus |
Desert Garden Conservatory
The Desert Garden Conservatory is a large botanical greenhouse and part of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California. It was constructed in 1985. The Desert Garden Conservatory is adjacent to the Huntington Desert Garden itself. The garden houses one of the most important collections of cacti and other succulent plants in the world, including a large number of rare and endangered species. The Desert Garden Conservatory serves The Huntington and public communities as a conservation facility, research resource and genetic diversity preserve. John N. Trager is the Desert Collection curator. There are an estimated 10,000 succulents worldwide, about 1,500 of them classified as cacti. The Huntington Desert Garden Conservatory now contains more than 2,200 accessions, representing more than 43 plant families, 1,261 different species and subspecies, and 246 genera. The plant collection contains examples from the world's major desert regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Company's Garden
The Company's Garden is a large public park situated in Cape Town CBD - the main commercial district of Cape Town. It is the oldest garden in South Africa, and a national heritage site. The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape. It is watered from the Molteno Dam, which uses water from the springs on the lower slopes of Table Mountain. History The Dutch East India Company established the garden in Cape Town for the purpose of providing fresh vegetables to the settlement as well as passing ships. Master gardener and free burgher Hendrik Boom prepared the first ground for sowing of seed on 29 April 1652. The settlers sowed different kinds of seeds and kept record thereof each day. Through trial and error they managed to compile a calendar which they used for the sowing and harvesting throughout the year. At first they grew salad herbs, peas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
