Cactus Gardening Survives Even My Withering Touch!

I have always loved plants, but they have never loved me. Some
people have a green thumb, but I am just the opposite. My very
touch can kill most plants. The only ones that I'm good with, in
fact, are ones that require almost no care. Cacti have always
survived my withering touch, and succulence do alright as well.
Nonetheless, I despaired of ever having my own garden until one
of my friends suggested a solution: cactus gardening.

I had never heard of cactus gardening, but my friend assured me
that it was quite common. Although not very many people have a
cactus garden around here, where she comes from they all over
the place. Cactus gardens are extremely popular in the bay area
around San Francisco. Between the sunlight and the moderate
rain, anything will grow there – including cacti. I am pretty
impulsive, and as soon as I decided on cactus gardening, I was
ready to go out and make some purchases. Nonetheless, my friends
stopped me. She told me that I should go to a botanical cactus
garden before I decided what I wanted.

There was more to growing cacti than I had realized before.
There are many different kinds of cactus, and each of them
requires slightly different conditions. When I first heard about
cactus gardening, I thought that I would have to renounce
traditional gardening values. I figured that I would not be able
to see any flowers – just plain, green cacti. To my surprise,
however, many cacti flower regularly. Cactus gardening is
actually every bit as dynamic as any other form of gardening.
The cacti grow, bloom, and hibernate – at least to some degree.
Although the cacti never whither for the season and drop their
spikes, they do have slow periods where they are resting, like
other perennial flowering plants.

I started cactus growing yesterday. My friend told me that,
before I started the cactus garden, I needed to make sure all of
my cacti had matured to some degree in their pots. Now I have
several pots to tend to each day, and so far everything is going
excellently well. Soon I'll have a flawlessly working cactus
garden – the only one on the block. I know that some of the
neighbors will resent it – they resent anything that looks
different on this black. Other ones, however, will probably
think it is pretty cool. Personally, I always love a new look.
Thank God for cactus gardening!

About The Author: Ann Merier a prolific writer has written many
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