Europe’s Biggest Cactus Garden is Alive with Personality

Europe isn’t known for its cacti.

But on the outskirts of Madrid, a vast garden called Desert City is quietly making the case that it could be.

Designed by Madrid-based studio Jacobo García-Germán, the site unfolds across a former industrial wasteland. It’s now transformed into something unexpectedly alive.

Thousands of cacti and drought-tolerant plants stretch across the landscape, anchored by an enormous greenhouse where visitors can take a few of them home.

It’s a strange and lovely thing, a desert blooming where factories once stood.

Via Wallpaper