Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden Explained

Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden
Type:	cactus garden
Location:	Bisbee, Arizona
Coords:	31.3508°N -109.8754°W
Founder:	David L. Eppele
Open:	No

The Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden was a non-profit botanical garden, located at 8 Cactus Lane, Bisbee, Arizona, United States, containing representative samples of over 800 varieties of high desert xerophyte plant life. ^{[1] [2]} It was founded by David L. Eppele^[3] and has been closed since his death on 19 May 2005.^[4]

The Garden featured cactus and succulents from high deserts of the Americas. All plants were cold-hardy and grown with no supplemental water. Shade frames and greenhouses contained hundreds of plants under study for hardiness and potential as landscape plants in high Southwestern deserts. The Garden's library contained over 2,000 volumes.^{[5] [6]}

See also

• List of botanical gardens in the United States

Notes and References

1. John J Russell; Thomas S Spencer Gardens Across America, West of the Mississippi : the American Horticultural Society's Guide to American Public Gardens and Arboreta. Lanham. Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006. 377 pages.
2. John C. Krieg Desert Landscape Architecture CRC-Press 2018 656 pages
3. https://azdailysun.com/cactus-expert-creates-spiny-sanctuary-near-bisbee/article_f2f9d115-2402-5cf4-888f-30f3ea45b622.html Cactus expert creates spiny sanctuary near Bisbee
4. https://www.douglasdispatch.com/news/eppele-founder-of-cactus-garden-passed-away-thursday/article_d40390dd-c4dd-5dad-a80c-0119a3671068.html Eppele, founder of cactus garden, passed away Thursday
5. David L. Eppele On the Desert:: Essays of the American Deserts 1990 58 pages Tortilla Press
6. David L. Eppele On the Desert: Volume 2 Hollis Books 1999 120 pages