Old Man of the Andes Size:3/5 Gallon With its soft mounding habit

With its soft mounding habit

Foliage Deciduous — drops leaves in winter

Purple Hopseed: a fast evergreen shrub that closes lower privacy gaps between specimens

Desert Ruellia: a low evergreen mound of purple flowers that carries the color to ground level

and each spring it erupts in a stunning display of brilliant yellow flowers that blankets the entire canopy

Old Man of the Andes Size:3/5 Gallon With its soft mounding habitThe Rarest Fuzzy Columnar Cactus for Phoenix Collector Gardens Old Man of the Andes (Oreocereus celsianus) is one of the most striking and unusual cacti you can grow in the Phoenix Valley. Native to the high Andes mountains of South America, this slow growing columnar cactus is covered in dense white woolly hair that protects it from UV radiation, giving it an otherworldly, frosted appearance unlike any other desert plant. Hidden beneath the wool are