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Jose Guillen underscores the commitment of the City to develop in Murcia xeriscape, which requires less maintenance and water consumption and uses plants that are perfectly suited to the climate of the municipality.

The Garden of Salitre cactus concentrated area larger, with specimens of up to 10 meters high, but can also be seen in Antolin, El Raal or Algezares, among others.

The City Council, through the Department of Administration Modernization, Urban Quality and Participation, directed Jose Guillen, is making a commitment to "xeriscape" a garden design in which raw rational use of water.

One of the great advantages of cactus is its perfect adaptation to areas with water shortages as in the case of Murcia.

Hence they are used especially in this style of landscaping "oriented design of green areas of quality that conserve water and protect the environment," said Guillen, who also notes that "trying to optimize gardening, adapting it to the resources areas with long periods of drought, as Murcia ".

These plants need some care as they are essential watering least monthly (except in the so-called vegetative stop in winter that we must reduce these data), and a monthly subscriber, especially from early spring until autumn.

The parks and gardens of the town house 64 varieties of cacti, especially the genus 'Mammillaria', with 13 different species totaling about 80 copies, and the 'Ferrocactus', with its four different species arrive almost fifty plants, which care and vigilance 15 people are in charge.

Cacti, unlike what many people think, they also have flowers.

Specifically, in Murcia, you can see some species such as the "cactus peanut" has orange and purple flowers, "Echinofossulocactus" which are small cactus and spherical with pink flowers, or "Lobivias" with a showy flowers red.

This type of plant is mainly in the district of San Pedro, San Antolin (parterres plane San Francisco) and in the garden of Salitre, with copies of up to 10 meters high and in Aljucer, Guadalupe, Monteagudo, Sangonera la Seca, El Raal, Algezares or Gea and Truyols.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia