Maybe you have wondered what kind of garden I have, where I plant my cactus. Let me say, it is a privilege to have a cactus garden in Borrego Springs. Before I began to renovate last year, it was overgrown with shrubs and interspersed with those white quartz chips you see in graveyards.
To start, I mulched the soil with pine needles. Finally, I laid out a small central square of rocks.
There is a palo verde tree creating a canopy over my garden and I love looking out of the first floor windows into it. I can watch bunnies and even the occasional hummingbird from my desk.
Although I have planted sun tolerant plants I bought at Torres Desert Nursery, disappointingly many never came to flower this year and I understand now why my predecessors planted shrubs.
But there’s no going back and, through self-selection, I am discovering the right plants for my garden. In particular, mesquite and palo verde thrive and I have been planting them en masse in every corner I can find. Various cacti, too.
You will see the results come next spring.
