Moorten Botanical Garden

Cactus at the Larco Museum , Peru

Accents and containers made of ceramic and metal make the most beautiful and long lived elements in high desert gardens. Recycling old metals into garden pots... for rugged sites makes the natural and man made elements blend subtly and authentically. Planting inspirations for fall 2020 in the desert. See more

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A most amazing herbarium sheet that shows how they preserve cholla cactus in these horticultural archives. Pressing succulents, especially spiny cactus like th...ey do regular plants is difficult if not impossible. Yet here is the presentation of a plant and all its parts in cross sections. This takes a wooden plant press devoted exclusively to spine and glochid plants or suffer the consequences. See more

1901 Palm Canyon after Indian burning. Demonstrates how they managed unwanted competition for food bearing plants. Burning also created bumper crops of seed in the following years.

When it's hot and muggy and smokey and drizzly out here I always think about the women who came to 29 Palms in the 20s. Helen Bagley told her story in this ama...zing view into life with an asthmatic husband, spending their first year in tents with kids then they moved into the communal adobe (Now 29 Palms Inn). No ice, no fans, just the desert wind and water to cool these dog days. Without electricity and only a well, they began their store in that communal adobe helping others find supplies while they hauled much in from Banning by mule or truck. Find her story and be inspired to abide all things as they did, putting one foot in front of the other. See more

Stapelia cedrimontana

Palm Springs Art Museum holds the Willard archives more than 16,000 items, including photographs, glass and film negatives, hand-colored lantern slides, photo...-paintings, postcards, correspondence, maps, and photographic equipment donated to the institution in 1999 by Beatrice Bettie Willard, the photographer’s daughter. It’s where we found him stranded on a dirt road in 1917. Willard built the house on South Palm Canyon in Palm Springs that was later purchased by Pat and Slim Moorten. These pioneers turned it into Moorten Botanical Garden planting everything that grows on that site today. Thank you Clark Moorten for the old picture of your house!

Gastronomía indígena pemón. Gusano de la palma de moriche Es la larva de un escarabajo de la especie Rhynchophorus. También es conocido por el nombre de pi...cudo de la palma, iwo en la lengua pemón. ..... Estos gusanos siempre han formado parte de la gastronomía pemón, es muy versátil a la hora de cocinarlo, se pueden comer crudos, cocidos en Tumá, fritos o a la brasa, y no es habitual agregar aceite porque las larvas tienen un alto contenido de grasa y exudan aceite durante el cocinado, contienen hasta un 69.78% de grasa; son una excelente fuente de varios nutrientes como magnesio, potasio, calcio, hierro, fósforo y zinc, así como aminoácidos y ácidos grasos monoinsaturados y poliinsaturados saludables. Son además como casi todos los insectos comestibles en la cultura pemón, una gran fuente de proteínas y son los mejores proveedores de energía, incluso mejores que la miel, por lo que las larvas de palma son como barritas energéticas naturales. Los han probado? O les gustaría probarlo ..... Créditos a los autores de las fotografías. ...... Únete a mi grupo si quieres saber más sobre mi cultura. KAVANAYEN, SU GENTE Y LA GRAN SABANA https://www.facebook.com/groups/1573118122862565/ See more

Bad smelling! Orbea araysiana from Yemen.

Selenicereus grandiflorus