Can I see beautiful flowers, plants and trees in or around Los Cabos - La Paz, Mexico?

Yes, you can see beautiful flowers, plants in trees in Baja Sur. Usually in downtown Cabo, La Paz, Todos Santos, etc. there are nice big trees that have been there for over 30 to 40 years. The gardens are well kept and most people here really like plants and gardens. Everybody from any socioeconomic level has their little garden that they’re proud of. 

 

We don’t get a lot of rain and our water sometimes can be a little salty so not all the...

Yes, you can see beautiful flowers, plants in trees in Baja Sur. Usually in downtown Cabo, La Paz, Todos Santos, etc. there are nice big trees that have been there for over 30 to 40 years. The gardens are well kept and most people here really like plants and gardens. Everybody from any socioeconomic level has their little garden that they’re proud of. 

 

We don’t get a lot of rain and our water sometimes can be a little salty so not all the plants might survive. The heat is very strong, also. So some tropical species may not do very well but you make your little microclimates and you can adjust any plant to it. Bougainvillea is probably the one we’re most famous for, with beautiful purple, white, orange flowers. There’s the flamboyant tree that has red flowers that’s known as Tabachin. We have lots of palms, which thrive here. And we have beautiful desert gardens of native plants.

 

 

 

The native plants are mostly spiny.  Some have leaves only and blooms only in the summer when it rains. So if we have droughts our plants will be a little brown and gray, but after the first rain, every single plant in the desert comes alive and it flourishes and it’s green and it’s lush. There are yellow, pink, and red flowers everywhere. It’s like magic. We have beautiful cardones, which are the big cactus trees similar to a saguaro that you would see in the American southwest. We have lots of those. 

 

We have Palo Verdes.  We have Mexican fan palms and date palms, neither of which are native.  The missionaries brought the date palms. But you could say now that they’re native because they do very well here.

 

We have coconut plants that I don’t think are native, either. We have, however, a blue palm that it is native and you can only find in certain areas that are beautiful. And there’s another one that we call Taquito, which is a fan palm which is native and you can find them all over in the arroyos and streams.

 

The native plants provide food for many birds and lizards and it is important to keep them in your yard if you want to have some natural biodiversity.  

 

(Home with a cardones cactus growing through the deck, La Paz, Mexico, pictured.)