Fence post cactus

Looking to bring a touch of the southwest to your home or garden? Cacti are a great option. Here's everything you need about the Mexican fence post cactus.

This fast-growing cactus makes a strong, vertical statement wherever it resides and is often a focal point of the landscape. Its long, low-branching canes grow straight and upright to 12 feet tall, sometimes even taller in frost-free areas. Each cane has 5-7 ribs that feature a tidy row of small spines along a white “stripe”…

Forget bamboo. For privacy fencing in a dry garden, consider a centuries-old Mexican method: plant cacti.

Pachycereus marginatus (Mexican Fence Post Cactus) is a basally clumping columnar cactus with unbranched dark green stems with 5 to 7 ribs ...

Moroccan courtyard - Ochre with jade green highlights I’m looking at residential courtyards with the key emphasis being on prominent earth features using design elements like decorative rocks, stone paths, ceramic tiles, planters, earthy tones and stone walls. I am in the process of modifying a home design which has a central courtyard (a rarity these days) that has close proximity to a laundry and bathroom. This isn’t ideal from a Feng Shui perspective, due to the running water depleting…

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Mexican Fence Post contemporary landscape

Taken at Lotusland, Montecito, CA.

These succulents and combos show great driveway plantings throughout the Southwest. All are easy-care, low-water and certain to inspire you!

The New Year has brought cold weather to the Sonoran Desert. But because we’ve had some rain and because it was so warm through most of December there are pockets of wildflowers coming up here and there, as well as blooms by some flowers that won’t be stopped by anything but a hard freeze. Desert Marigolds and Chiltepin fruits Arizona Bluebells In most of Tohono Chul Park, our plants meet more hospitable conditions than those out in the desert. We irrigate many flower beds, and surround them…