109-year-old grandmother, 40 years to build a succulent forest, become a global network celebrity!

This succulent garden covers an area of 65,438+10,000 square meters, and has planted more than 2,000 succulent plants, such as cactus, succulent plants and palm trees.

The owner of this spectacular succulent garden is Mrs. Ruth Bancroft, aged 65,438+009 (died in 2065,438+07,65,438+065,438+0). It took her 40 years to build this oasis in the desert.

Ruth loved flowers and plants since she was a child, but she became attached to meaty in the 1950s. At that time, she bought the first pot of meat in her life, and she became obsessed with meat from then on.

At first, the meat bought was put in greenhouses and toilets around the house. Later, the more meat I bought, the more I put it at home. 197 1 year, her husband gave her three acres of land to grow meat.

Looking at the empty land, Ruth, who is nearly 70 years old, came up with the idea of building a desert fleshy garden. She wants to create a green land on this barren land.

From early morning to sunset, she spends nearly 10 hours in this yard every day, planning and designing, planting and watering, almost all of which are done by herself.

But things are not always smooth sailing. In the second year of construction, Ruth's garden encountered the greatest difficulty. The winter of that year was extremely cold, and almost all the delicate and fleshy things in the garden were frozen to death.

But she didn't give up, but started again in the spring. In order to prevent succulents from freezing to death again, she customized an anti-freezing wooden box and later built a special greenhouse.

Because she doesn't know all the fleshy habits, she has to read a lot of books before planting a new variety. After planting, she will take notes every day to record the growth of fleshy people.

Ruth studied architecture in college, and her knowledge also played a significant role in the process of building a fleshy garden.

In order to break the plane landscape in the courtyard and make the garden more layered, she added some undulating mounds to the garden.

Simply planting succulents made the garden monotonous, so she built a central pond in the garden.

I just didn't expect that this pond later became a habitat for birds.

She also has her own ideas about the cultivation of succulents. Some small succulents with bright colors are laid on both sides of the gravel road, while the larger succulents are scattered on the higher hillside.

Later, Ruth Garden attracted the attention of relevant organizations in the United States, because its concept of desert garden was very instructive. 1989, Ruth Garden became the first private garden protected by garden organizations in the United States.

20 1 1 was rated as "the most meaningful private garden on the west coast of the United States" by Pacific Horticulture magazine.

Ruth herself didn't think that a small idea would have such a great social impact.

In addition to tourists, it has also become a wedding shrine, and more and more young couples choose to take wedding photos here. The fleshy garden is full of romance ~

Mrs. Ruth devoted the rest of her life to this fleshy garden. In the last few years of her life, she couldn't stay in the garden every day, but she would go to the garden whenever she had the chance.