{"id":52028,"date":"2014-02-17T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=52028"},"modified":"2014-02-21T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T23:01:45","slug":"modernism-week-in-palm-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=52028","title":{"rendered":"Modernism Week in Palm Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Modernism Week<\/a> in Palm Springs, so what architectural gem did I visit? A Wexler steel house? Maybe a Neutra?
\nNope, but I did visit a cactarium, the world’s first.<\/p>\n

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The cactarium belongs to the Moorten Botanical Garden,<\/a> a small, idiosyncratic, family-run botanical garden right off the main drag in Palm Springs. If you veer left and take East Palm Canyon Drive, you run into a strip of hipster hotels like Ace Hotel.<\/a> But if you keep right on South Palm Canyon Drive, you’ll find Moorten’s and sights like these.<\/p>\n

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The legendary Hollywood-Palm Springs connection insinuates itself even into a small botanical garden. Its founder, Chester “Cactus Slim” Moorten, was one of the original Keystone Cops. <\/p>\n

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Leaving the small, quonset hut-like cactarium for the main garden, San Jacinto Mountains in the background.<\/p>\n

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The enthusiastic, mad love for desert plants permeates every inch of this little garden.<\/p>\n

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\nPalm Springs in February is a glorious place to be. Temps reached just 87 degrees. The air was fresh and sweet, a marked change from our “hard” port air. If we go back before summer, we’ll take in Sunnylands<\/a> too. Modernism Week extends to February 23, 2014, and there are still tickets available to some events. We lucked into last-minute tickets to a lecture by landscape designer Maureen Gilmer, entitled “The Neglected Palette.” (Some of what she discussed included her take on old-school, hand-drawn designs versus auto-CAD, which can be read in an article she wrote here<\/a>.) Ms. Gilmer is the author of “Palm Springs-Style Gardening<\/a>,” and you can see what inspires her from her Pinterest board here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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