The Cactus Garden is one of César Manriques´ last works and was created on an old quarry and turned into an authentic plantation of an extensive variety of cactus. The artist demonstrated a special sense to combine and to create art from natural resources that keep in perfect harmony in both, their positioning and distribution of the appearance of typical elements of the insular landscape. This spectacular "botanical garden" offers a range of almost ten thousand units of cactus of more than thousand four hundred different species descending from America, Madagascar and the Canary Islands and reunited by the expert González Ferrer, who passed away a few years ago. Nevertheless, the intention of this work is not didactic, but aesthetic and recreational, like the rest of the author's works. The Garden itself is elevated in the middle of a cactus growing area, in between Guatiza and Mala.
