Three States, Four Cactus Nurseries Road Trip!
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:48 pm
My wife joined me on a road trip to Lost Vegas on March 12-13, 2021 to check out Cactus Joe’s Blue Diamond Nursery and several other cactus specialty nurseries in the area. All in all we visited three stores plus the bonus Mother Nature’s “nursery” .
The first nursery was open air without any sign of a proprietor...so we stopped anyway, looked around, took pics and were entertained by a Roadruner ( Geococcyx ) wandering around the plants eating bugs. ( one of the highlights of the trip for me being a birder )
After the brief visit we went across the highway to Cactus Joe’s Blue Diamond Nursery. Here’s the link if you’re so inclined to peruse it: https://www.cactusjoeslasvegas.com
And the Google maps link for more:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cactu ... 3358?hl=en
It was quite the place ( tourist trap ) ...lots of metal art, pottery and of course plants.
The next stop was Star nursery in South Las Vegas. Very nicely set up, organized and price points were respectable versus Cactus Joe’s which would choke a donkey. I choked and bought the Cactus Joe's tee shirt. Nice beefy white ink on black tee = $20
We strolled around picking up herbs for our garden for about an hour. I never did decide on a purchase. The Yuccas, Agaves and Cacti were all nice and for landscape sized specimens very affordable. I just waffled between a few and came home empty handed while my wife scored big on the herbs at $4 a pop, plus one 2 foot tall Tuscan Rosemary bush for $18.
Here’s the link for that nursery:
https://www.starnursery.com/
And so on the way home we stopped by Mother Nature’s Nursery just inside the Utah border after leaving Nevada and crossing over the northwest corner of Arizona.
We drove down the Mojave Desert Joshua Tree Road for a mile or two and got out to stretch our legs before the next 300 mile drive home.
That area map link:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Woodb ... 8358?hl=en
So while out of the car for a few minutes, I grabbed my camera and took a few pics of some flora right around where
we parked. A quick few quick photos and off we went. Road trip miles/km total - 881 miles/ 1417.83 km
Roadrunner image - Mick Thompson/Eastside Audubon ( wife is sending me pics soon )
The first nursery was open air without any sign of a proprietor...so we stopped anyway, looked around, took pics and were entertained by a Roadruner ( Geococcyx ) wandering around the plants eating bugs. ( one of the highlights of the trip for me being a birder )
After the brief visit we went across the highway to Cactus Joe’s Blue Diamond Nursery. Here’s the link if you’re so inclined to peruse it: https://www.cactusjoeslasvegas.com
And the Google maps link for more:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cactu ... 3358?hl=en
It was quite the place ( tourist trap ) ...lots of metal art, pottery and of course plants.
The next stop was Star nursery in South Las Vegas. Very nicely set up, organized and price points were respectable versus Cactus Joe’s which would choke a donkey. I choked and bought the Cactus Joe's tee shirt. Nice beefy white ink on black tee = $20
We strolled around picking up herbs for our garden for about an hour. I never did decide on a purchase. The Yuccas, Agaves and Cacti were all nice and for landscape sized specimens very affordable. I just waffled between a few and came home empty handed while my wife scored big on the herbs at $4 a pop, plus one 2 foot tall Tuscan Rosemary bush for $18.
Here’s the link for that nursery:
https://www.starnursery.com/
And so on the way home we stopped by Mother Nature’s Nursery just inside the Utah border after leaving Nevada and crossing over the northwest corner of Arizona.
We drove down the Mojave Desert Joshua Tree Road for a mile or two and got out to stretch our legs before the next 300 mile drive home.
That area map link:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Woodb ... 8358?hl=en
So while out of the car for a few minutes, I grabbed my camera and took a few pics of some flora right around where
we parked. A quick few quick photos and off we went. Road trip miles/km total - 881 miles/ 1417.83 km
Roadrunner image - Mick Thompson/Eastside Audubon ( wife is sending me pics soon )