Botanical Gardens, Cactus, Greenhouse, Rock Garden

Dunedin Botanic Garden; the cactus house

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 Senecio auriculatus, looking better than it did in my care.

Rather than write a ton about all the different succulents in this greenhouse, I’ll just let you take a look. Nice landscape planning!

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 Plants look even better when they feel at home, don’t you agree?
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Tiny spikes.
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I love a display with some well placed columnar basalt, don’t you?
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Oh, to have this much space for cactus. It looks to me like there’s room for a lot more.
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Let’s be honest. If you were to come across an Astrophytum myriostigma in the desert, would you recognize it as a plant at first glance?
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There are some truly bizarre cacti out there.
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 Tucked away in an oddly placed cabinet were some carnivorous plants.
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 An agave on it’s way out.
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If the cactus itself isn’t weird enough, sometimes the flower is even more extreme.
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Sometimes something you think you’ve seen before can still surprise you. I like the variegation in this aloe.
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At it’s feet, something that looks like something I once had.
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Not the most beautiful of plants, but it sure is unique. You can see the label at the base of the trunk. I love labels.
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That is one bulb that’ll never get eaten.
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Aloe polyphylla, once again. I can’t believe how many of these I’ve found in New Zealand!
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Vicious!
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Cussonia paniculata, Mountain Cabbage Tree.

Of the many botanical gardens and greenhouses that I visited in New Zealand, Dunedin had the best indoor cactus display. I think my favorite place overall was the Quarry Garden in Whangeri, though. It boasted a lot of seriously big leaves. That will be another post on another day, though.

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justinvance

I love a challenge. Whether it is germinating seeds from exciting new plants (at least exciting and new for me), keeping and raising fish, poison dart frogs, and ornamental shrimp, or navigating new areas of the world without maps or guides, I am interested in it. I have lived in the Pacific Northwest most of my life, and I'm still fond of moss and gray skies.

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