{"id":2332,"date":"2008-03-06T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2017-02-13T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:34:09","slug":"golden-barrel-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/golden-barrel-cactus\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Barrel Cactus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother, MJN, introduced me to the gorgeously planted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springspreserve.org\/html\/home.html\">Springs Preserve<\/a> in Las Vegas and there I fell in love with golden barrel cactus, <i>Echinocactus grusonii<\/i>. Although it is an endangered species in its native Mexico habitat, it is one of the most popular landscape cacti in the American Southwest. Apparently this cactus can reach a size four feet tall and three feet tall. However, in the many display gardens of the Springs Preserve, it was used as the desert equivalent of a small globe shaped boxwood.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/Echinocactus3.jpg\" alt=\"golden barrel cactus\" \/><br \/>\nIn another display bed, colorful recycled glass chips were used as a mulch. The resulting jewel like beds glittered in the desert sun, but like many rock\/gravel\/shell mulches, the glass chips ended up being strewn in the paths. Recycled glass is definitely not a mulch to use if you have lots of trees and leaf litter.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/Echinocactus2.jpg\" alt=\"golden barrel cactus\" \/><br \/>\nGolden barrel cactus also filled planters lining the parking area at the entrance to the Springs Preserve. My mother fell in love with them, too, and so I bought her one for $20 at Lowe&#8217;s. Then I saw a little golden barrel cactus in a paper cup on the clearance table for $2. I had to have it even though everyone wondered how I&#8217;d get it home. (I put it in my carryon luggage. No problem.) The silly thing about my $2 cactus is that someone glued plastic eyes on it and the cup said, &#8220;My Peeps, Cactus Buddies&#8221;. Ugh! I&#8217;ll figure out how to cut off those cutesy plastic eyes and restore some dignity to my beautiful golden barrel cactus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/Echinocactus1.jpg\" alt=\"golden barrel cactus\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[162,217,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}