I just realized I never did get around to sharing my pictures of the Cactus Road Rally Garden at EPCOT, from our trip there last month. This display garden from the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival impressed me with its fabulous specimen plants -- not all cactus, but many succulents as well as some pretty trippy Euphorbias (which are South Africa's ecological equivalent of our American Southwest's cactuses). The big difference -- and it's a big one -- is that true cactus are edible and filled with water, but Euphorbia is poisonous, and filled with a caustic latex-like sap.
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| Chaotic mix of Aloes, Agaves and Yuccas |
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| Loved those enormous variegated cactus |
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| Opuntia monacantha variegata/Joseph's Coat cactus |
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| Another of the same, in a huge pot |
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| Loved this combo of Agave attenuata with Setcreasea pallida 'Purple Heart' and mother-in-law's tongue |
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| Agave attenuata with bright pink Dianthus and a sea of lime green Sedum |
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| That same sedum with Graptoveria(?) |
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| Fabulously large and thick Euphorbia 'Sticks on Fire' |
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| That same lime green Sedum with metallic Dyckia 'Nickel Silver' |
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| Variegated cactus, more mother-in-law's tongue, and Yucca elephantipes (which will one day be really huge and tree-like) |
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| Bunny Ear Cactus/Opuntia microdasys |
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| Eve's Needle cactus/Austrocylindropuntia subulata |
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| Bulbine, Kalanchoe and Yucca |
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| A pretty succulent patchwork |
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| Pachypodiums which may or may not be alive |
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| Flame of Jamaica/Euphorbia punicea |
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| Silver Thicket/Euphorbia stenoclada |
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| Cow's Horn Euphorbia/Euphorbia grandicornis |
With that, I'm finally finished posting the photos from my trip. I hope you enjoyed them!
