Echinopsis Species, Argentine Saguaro, Cardon Grande

Two specimens from Harry Johnson estate were planted in one of our hill gardens 28 years ago. These have thrived here on very little 'ho...Read Morese' water. We have had a history of two winters with 30" plus rain on these plants and they sucked it up. One has not flowered. the larger of the two has flowered many times and has large white flowers (fragrantly odoriferous). Flower opens after dark and before dawn.

Neither of these have branched in spite of the 10'+ height of the tall one.

These specimens here are surrounded by desert shrubs, cactii and trees and so it is difficult to capture complete digital images that illustrate their profiles.

The Harry Johnson estate Had two Huge specimens with transport custom built structures supporting wide arms on each side of both plants. when last seen, the two of them stood erect and left no footprint space on a 25' "Lowboy" flatbed trailer. This cargo and transport made quite a dramatic and unique display of the cargo destined for a business landscape display in Texas from Harry Johnson's 10 acre nursery South of Fallbrook, California.

E. Terscheckii is supposed to be OK in USDA zone 8b. Some Austin cactusheads would disagree. We has lows of 17 in 2010 and 2011, and ma...Read Moreny of our Terscheckiis have suffered burns, usually on top. One of mine sprouted a branch (or a cockeyed segment) right out of the damaged tissue. The other one is doing fine, but with brown hair.

We have had these growing in Kingman for the last 12 years. Beautiful blooms!

This is a great cactus it grows like a Saguaro but it grows much faster, is more cold tolerant, & handles cold & moisture better. I have ...Read Morea 10 foot plant that has been growing in Hesperia, CA zone 8 (3500 feet) for 10 years. It has survived temperatures down to 15 degrees with little to no damage. However young plants are less cold tolerant.

Zone 9b coastal otago New Zealand

I have been assured that these tricho/echinopsis type cacti *are* hallucinogenic, and do...Read Morewn here hippies steal them from your garden. However I predict that like most alleged hallucinogens, the only reliably freaky thing youre likely to see is the contents of your stomach about 20 mins after ingestion. Wow! Why not just eat something off the footpath?

Seriously though, I have one outside in a pot suffering complete neglect and it's come through the occasional -5C withough damage. That's with really soggy conditions thrown in. So they're pretty tough.

Purchased this plant last year and have seen little to no growth. It is currently only receiving morning to early afternoon sun at its c...Read Moreurrent heigth so perhaps this is the reason. It was reported to grow faster than the Arizona native but so far I have not seen it.

Beautiful and resilient large columnar cactus. Seems to handle a good amount of rain with good drainage of course. Here north of houst...Read Moreon about 50 miles has withstood temps down to 17 degrees F for short duration without damage and in the last few months, it has been on the receiving end of record rain fall for this already high rainfall area. In the last 2 months, it has withstood nicely with over 20" of rain and is growing and looking very healthy and nice. I must add though that the bed it is planted in is built above existing groundlevel and prepared well for excellent drainage. One of my favorite cactus. Very robust and not too finicky.

This species forms an 18 inch thick trunk with age and many branches. Grows up to about 40 feet high. Flowers are white and bloom at nig...Read Moreht (another night blooming ceroid).

Nice looking cactus from ARgentina- probably pretty cold tolerant, but not sure how cold tolerant. Grows up to 20' and is exported a lot...Read More for it's skin. Not sure why, either- looks, potpoiri?.. but used to be eaten by the Indians locally. Suspect there is something hallucinigenic about it.