Cactus Garden In Panchkula

A visit to Panchkula in Haryana is incomplete without making a trip to the Cactus Garden . Cactus Garden is Asia's biggest garden devoted to rare and endangered species having more than 3500 species. The out door Cactus Garden has 25 raised ground features, 3 water bodies with water ways. On raised mounds about 800 species of Cacti and Succulents have been naturalized. Echinocactus grusonii have extensively been used as main landscape plant. A group of Bursera (Mexican Origin) are in shape of big trees. A thick elongated Cactus Carnegia gigantea (Saguaro Cactus of Arizona) a slow growing Cacti can attain height of 30 feet to 40 feet . Collection of Pachypodium extremely rare plants are also in cultivation. Fouquiria spendens is from Arizona ,Gardens has three species of it. Adenia Venenata was field collected from Yemen. It belongs to Passifloraceae family. The Garden has 272 species of genus Mammillaria and 160 species has been naturalized out door. The magnificent plants of Aloe speciosa, Aloe ferox & other exotic species can be seen here. In low growing cacti such as Mamillarias, Astrophytum, Notocacti and several other species have been used in the fore ground of the feature. Bonsai collection of succulent and non succulent plants has been created and gifted by J.S.Sarkaria. This educative collection displays different styles of bonsai. Garden has nine glass houses having collection of practically all the know genera of cactus. Garden also has highly representative collections of Haworthias, Aloes and Gasterias. Plants are also available for sale