I Want More, But I’m Mentally I’m Outnumbered

While hunting on Reddit for local nurseries I found some located in Tucson, and immediately booked them for later. I wanted more cacti but I was trying not to rush the good feelings, ahaha. Anyways, I ended up making a day of touring nurseries with my husband. We of course stopped at Dutch Brothers! Woot woot.

The first place we stopped at was B&B Cactus Farm and that was amazing. Oh my gosh the pricing was so good and the quality, in my limited knowledge and inexperience plant owner, was out of this world.

I walked the entire place and just fell in love with everything. My husband pointed out that it he liked the astrophytum myriostigma(?) as a cool looking cactus. I’d admit it was pretty cool looking in person then online. They had a lot in nursery pots and potted up in terracotta for $18-35.

Then we come to the holy grail of a building with 2-5inch pots of cacti. And they had a variety. It was freaking AMAZING. I had 2 in mind, one was a long shot, the rebutia sunrise, but I did find the rebutia muscula, and my husband found one that was blooming. (Spoiler alert, I bought the muscula).

I saw a lot of potential plants I would have bought just because I was having fun, but I remembered the spontaneous buys I regretted, that I only bought plants I really wanted and were on my wish list.

It was starting to get hot and I was hungry and tired, so my husband stayed in the home and decor building while I went back to grab the lophocereus schottii monstrose spiralis that my husband talked me into buying. He’s awful! But so amazing.

I didn’t tell him, but I was also going to pick up the Astrophytum myriostigma because he liked it, and while I grabbed the lophocereus I also wanted to double check the cereus peruvianus down the aisle, and realized they had the spiralis form so I grabbed that one as well.

I didn’t have a basket or a cart so I was carrying 3 cacti in my arms and hoping I didn’t drop or spear myself as I walked across the entire nursery back to the checkout building. 2 of them were heavy!

It didn’t set in until I was driving to our lunch destination, that I had 2 of my wishlist plants from forever ago in the back of my car, and I just looked at my husband in excitement and said: “I’m literally having a happiness dump right now!”

It was a good day. A darn good day.

Buuuuuut almost immediately I started doing a headcount of how many plants I have and I have over 30 even if I don’t count my air plants. I felt claustrophobic and cluttered with how many plants I have, even though all the new plants are on the balcony! Except the rebutia – she’s chilling in the windowsill, ahaha.

I think it’s the thought of repotting, different watering schedules for all the plants that starts to get me….

I start to think of what plants I can give away and usually after a week, the feeling goes away, mostly, but the want of new plants is pushed to the back of my mind.

It probably doesn’t help also that I’m relearning allllll my plants water needs in Arizona, ahaha. I’m good with the plants I have right now. Although I do want a rebutia sunrise eventually but I have a few more months in Arizona, I’m good waiting.

But I cannot express how much I love sitting on my balcony and just admiring the cacti I have. The different colors, shapes, and spines are just epic.

I love cacti so much.

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