Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden

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]

This article is about the former garden at Bisbee, Arizona. For the garden at Stanford University, California, see Arizona Cactus Garden.
Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden
Typecactus garden
LocationBisbee, Arizona
Coordinates31.3508°N 109.8754°W / 31.3508; -109.8754
Created ()
Closed2005 (2005)
FounderDavid L. Eppele
OpenNo
Websitewww.arizonacactus.com

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

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. ISBN 9781461708919 ISBN 1461708915
  2. John C. Krieg Desert Landscape Architecture CRC-Press 2018 656 pages ISBN 9781351456104 ISBN 1351456105
  3. Cactus expert creates spiny sanctuary near Bisbee
  4. 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 ISBN 0962263516 ISBN 9780962263514
  6. David L. Eppele On the Desert: Volume 2 Hollis Books 1999 120 pages ISBN 1928781063 ISBN 9781928781066


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