Eileen
$120.00
Trichocereus cuttings, grown outdoors in California.
Every listing is the exact plant you receive — photographed, measured, and callused before it ships.
Mysterious Yard · California
Mysterious Yard is my small cactus nursery in California. Everything is grown outdoors in full sun, and I only list plants I’d be happy to receive myself.
In the yard
Available now
Grown here
From the collection
No jargon
Start learning
01Start here
Meet Trichocereus
What these tall ribbed columns are, where they come from, and why the way they grow is not like anything else you have kept on a windowsill.
8 min read
02Start here
Cutting, rooted or grafted: what turns up in the box
Three listings, three prices, three completely different first weeks. What each one actually is, and what you do on day one.
8 min read
03Propagation
Rooting a cutting, step by step
Six weeks of watching it look worse, and one afternoon of decisions. The whole sequence, week by week, including which of the alarming bits are normal.
11 min read
What’s rooted and ready
Cuttings ship callused, rooted plants ship in dry soil. Flat $12 shipping, free over $150, tracking on every box.