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All cacti listed here will appreciate good drainage and even gritty or gravelly soil in climates
with wet winters. In drier, desert climates they can be grown on a wider range of soils. Cacti will
respond to watering and feeding during their active growth period in late spring or early summer.
Choose from among the following exciting plants to add to your succulent or rock garden!
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Opuntia fragilis NEW Spring 2010! |
$12 |
This Opuntia very fragilis, in fact, it has got to be the fragilis Opuntia ever. It's as fragilis anything. But it's still an appealing and very special cactus. It's as cute as a really spiny button, with its round little pads and spines ranging in color from fiery orange to white. Big yellow flowers are sometimes seen in late spring. The pads detach easily from one another, which is an important part of the way this species distributes itself. In fact, it is native over a very large area of the West, and it's very hardy, some forms tolerating -30°F or below. Order one now and don't break it!
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Opuntia fragilis IB77 [Sequim] |
$12 |
The only cactus native to western Washington, this diminutive cactus has appeal as more than just a curiosity. It forms an attractive low mound of rounded spiny pads It looks great in a rock garden or cactus garden or as a small-scale groundcover in gravelly or sandy areas. It will appreciate full sun and a space free of competition from other plants. It should be propagated and cultivated more, as a number of factors seem to be hastening its demise in the wild. Hardy to at least -20°F, perhaps much lower.
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Opuntia polyacantha [The Embassy] |
$9 |
This species has a huge native range across North America, from Alberta all the way to Mexico. While much variation occurs between local forms, all of them are 'many spined' (polyacantha) and make excellent ornamental plants. This particular form comes to us from a cultivated plant in Pullman, Washington, where it grew adjacent to an apartment complex behind the house I lived in during my college years at WSU (called 'The Embassy'). It doesn't look like the closest local forms of O. polyacantha and may have originally been collected in Idaho or Montana. It is very appealing and easy to grow, with olive green pads that lie down in winter, and showy yellow flowers. Hardy to at least -30°F.
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Opuntia pulchella - SAGEBRUSH CHOLLA NEW Spring 2010! |
$10 |
This odd creature from the interior of California (east of the Sierra Nevada) and western Nevada is a small, low growing cholla-type plant with very dark stems. It usually has pink flowers, which may cover the plant. Super hardy and super tough, it will appreciate a very dry and sunny spot in the garden. -25°F or lower.
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Oreocereus celsianus - OLD MAN CACTUS |
$9 |
Here's one of those annoying plants that can live through amazing extremes of cold if it is kept dry, but still doesn't seem to grow outside in the Pacific Northwest without a lot of help. Beginning as a column of white hair with spines sticking out (it's pretty cool even when little), it may eventually offset to form large clumps. Native to the highlands of Bolivia, it may endure temperatures down to about 5°F if kept COMPLETELY dry. The wetter your winters are, the less frost is tolerated. Some summer water is appreciated.
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