To right and left appeared others, as motionless as boulders, or as giant cacti on the desert.

As we go on, we reach a poor kind of pasture, growing out of a scrubby kind of shrub, with some occasional cacti, many hills and mountains like barren rocks, with not a bird or an animal to be seen.

Field Work Notes: Growing Cacti At Home Cacti are plants suited to the desert and we must keep this factor in mind always when growing ornamental cacti in our gardens, for it helps in the survival of the plant.