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Our New Cacti Garden

Our new cacti garden is complete, we finished it on the weekend of 3rd April 2026. We started replanting a couple of cacti on 22nd March 2026. I wanted to add a touch of pink to the cacti garden, so we bought a couple of pink grasses to add some colour. We also took down the decorative panel, the paint had long since flaked off over the years due to the weather. Apart from the grass, the only other things we bought were loam and cactus mix, we replanted the cacti and succulents from around our garden. 28th March, we took down the pop up shed that we put up to hold some stuff during the Christmas period, to make room for moving and planting the plants. The things you find when clearing up, not sure who this belonged to!. We also found part of a prickly pear growing, the pad must have fallen off and started growing roots, making a new pad, quite incredible as it wasn't growing in any soil at all, just dead leaves, I have put it in a pot with soil and I will plant it somewhere in the ...