Featured Garden of the Week: Cactus & Succulent House

Posted July 15, 2009 by Sarada Krishnan, Director of Horticulture

 

Located at the west corner of the Rock Alpine Garden, the Cactus & Succulent House at one time served as an Alpine House. The challenges of maintaining appropriate environmental conditions for alpine plants led to the conversion of this indoor display house as an exhibit for our non-hardy cacti and succulents in 2004. Consisting of over 1,200 taxa, our cactus and succulent collection, which includes hardy, marginal and non-hardy species, is one of our seven major collections.
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