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Garden specializing in cacti and desert plants
A
cactarium
or
cactuario
(from Latin,
cactarium
) is a
garden
dedicated to the planting of
cacti
. While they generally specialize in collecting cacti, they can also include other desert plants such as
sabla
,
agaves
or
Crassulaceae
, although this would better be termed "
xeriscaping
"
.
Cacti are
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.
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Cactariums also tend to host plants from other botanical families, native to the
desert regions
of the world.
History
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A cactus garden is a garden for the cultivation and display with many types of cacti.
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Cacti, due to their unusual appearance for Europeans, attracted the attention of the first
European colonizers of Americas
and were brought to Europe as
ornamental plants
already in the
16th century
.
The first known collection of cacti was collected in the second half of the 16th century by the pharmacist Morgan in
London
. Popularity of these plants constantly grew, which was also facilitated by the biological characteristics of many cacti – tolerance of infrequent watering
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and dry air (the latter is essential for room culture), and easy
vegetative reproduction
. Also, indoor types of cacti (in particular
Rebutia
) can be moved in pots to the garden during summer.
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In
botanical gardens
of many European countries as well as in private
greenhouses
, significant collections have been accumulated.
List of cactus gardens
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- Arizona Cactus Garden
(Stanford, United States)
- Cactario Alvaralto
(Olmue, Chile)
- Company's Garden
(Cape Town, South Africa)
- Desert Garden Conservatory
(San Marino, United States)
- Desert City
(San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain)
- Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
(Dubuque, United States)
- Huntington Desert Garden
(Los Angeles, United States)
- Jardin botanique d'Eze
(Eze, France)
- Quito Botanical Garden
(Quito, Ecuador)
- Desert Botanical Garden
(Phoenix, Arizona)
- Ethel M Botanical Cactus Garden
(Henderson, Nevada)
- Chirau Mita Botanical Garden
(La Puntilla, Argentina)
- Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium
(Palm Springs, United States)
- Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca
(Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Jardin Exotique de Monaco
(Monaco)
- Vermont Experimental Cold Hardy Cactus Garden
(Middlebury, United States)
- Lanzarote Cactus Garden
(Teguise, Spain)
- Majorelle Garden
(Marrakesh, Morocco)
- Orman Garden
(Cairo, Egypt)
- Kapi?olani Community College Cactus Garden
(Honolulu, Hawaii)
- Palmengarten
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Moir Gardens
(Poipu, Hawaii)
- Mossen Costa i Llobera Gardens
(Barcelona, Spain)
- National Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden and Research Centre
(Panchkula, India)
- North Central Oklahoma Cactus Botanical Garden
(Covington, United States)
- Sherman Library and Gardens
(California, United States)
- Taman Kaktus
(Jakarta, Indonesia)
- West Wetlands Park
(Yuma, United States)
- Western Colorado Botanical Gardens
(Grand Junction, United States)
- Zilker Botanical Garden
(Austin, United States)
See also
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References
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