Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Arizona Cactus Garden of California or the Stanford Cactus Garden is a fantastic botanical garden especially identified for its unique collection of cactus and succulents. The garden is comprised of an location of 30000 sq. ft and is situated inside the campus of Stanford University Arboretum in Stanford, California.

The species grown in Arizona Cactus Garden  are cold-hardy and are grown with no supplemental water. This is, no doubt, an wonderful garden of water-saving landscape plants which is open for common public.


Arizona Cactus Garden of California . Photo by Davidcmc58 for Google Earth

In 1880 and 1883  Jane and Leland Stanford  planned to style this garden following an concept of a landscape architect Rudolph Ulrich. The Arizona Cactus garden was looked after  regularly until the 1920s but following its upkeep was lapsed. At last in 1997 some botanic lovers began it voluntary restoration and it is continued up till now. Due to lack of rehabilitation work  for decades , the Arizona Cactus Garden lost several rare species of cactus and succulents , nonetheless some of them are remaining nevertheless in their original form. They are only 15 % of all the plantation and are current in their real places.  Presently Arizona Cactus garden of California contains virtually 500 sorts of cacti and succulents in 58 beds,  and have two main divisions the Eastern Hemisphere  and the Western Hemisphere. First  section consists  aloes, jade plants and species of Eurasian and African succulents. In the other section the standard cacti species of American continent are grown.

A tour of Arizona Cactus garden definitely elaborates its evolution over the years, specifically its fairly recent restoration work right after being properly abandoned throughout second Globe War. The stunning varieties of cacti plants in the Arizona Cactus Garden of California specially attracts the guests in their flower blooming season and their flowers are covered in self-manufactured white powder to defend them from the sun.

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