Cactus garden at the South Coast Botanic Garden

 

It has been a real pleasure for me to visit the South Coast Botanic Garden again. There is the all over exhibition of "Bloom" which is all the splendid Spring flowers blooming in the garden, being the roses the most beautiful of them. But the cactus garden is fantastic as well. 

I am sharing here some of pictures in such a splendid day of last April. All pictures from my personal archives, 2024.

It is very interesting to walk among the cactus and succulents of diverse scale, arranged with rocks in a desert landscape.

This picture (above) shows a more colorful combination and I like how the perspective closes with taller species and finally there is the trees background. The palm trees species on the left.

See how the trees and the palm trees of the background break the lower scale monotony.

A play of textures, light and shadow.

White rocks here while in some areas (see below) the rocks are darker and next to a red flowering bush.

The palm trees in the background, see the different scales.

Maybe the only critical part is that looking at the cactus garden from the road curve, we perceive it as isolated and not part of a "desert".