Armin Pritcher, the botanist at the Quinta took me to visit a local garden center one morning, the main purpose was to confirm the identification of several of the introduced species in the Quinta. This was a high end garden center and from what I could tell since most of the conversation was in Portuguese and Latin, was family run.
It was hard to believe that this was actually a garden center since it used almost every plant for sale in a series of display gardens. It was surprising to see the quality (very high) the variety and size of the plants being sold and the overall cleanliness of the place.
From palms to olives to succulents the variety was never ending and even though it was a small garden center I could have spent the day there. The olive trees, in 40l pots were quite old, some I was told were over 100 years.
Part of the succulent display.
This Opuntia species was full of fruit.
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