It’s not only roses and mums that bring color and vibrance in Barangay Alno in La Trinidad, Benguet amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the vast flower gardens are the quirky-looking yet oddly fascinating cactus and succulents that make Alno home to the biggest ornamental cactus farm in the country.
Living Gifts Nursery
Who would have thought that cactus and succulents which are mostly found in deserts would thrive in the cold mountains of the Cordillera?
“The natural habitat of cactus are in Africa, some parts of Europe, and Central and Southern America. We have a native variety of succulents which is called Kalanchoe – these are the kataka-taka and euphorbia from Palawan,” explained Dan Saclangan, owner of the Living Gifts Nursery in Barangay Alno.