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One of the many cacti in Hayarkon Park.

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n the garden are rows and
rows of cactus plants. Some
are tall and spiky; others are
low and squat. There are cone
shapes and cylinders and stalks;
cacti that look like giant cucum-
bers and others that are small
and rounded.
It's a striking sight, this gar-
den entirely of cactus plants. It's
especially appropriate that it's
located in Israel; for this is the
place where the sabra cactus,
tough on the outside, tender on
the inside, has become the name
— and the symbol — for the na-
tive Israelis themselves.
This garden in Tel Aviv has a
sizeable collection of sabras. But
there are many other types of cac-
tus plants in the Cactus Garden
in Hayarkon Park, the expansive
park located not far from the cen-
ter of Tel Aviv.
Begun in 1987, the Cactus
Garden now has one of the
largest collections anywhere, with
over 1200 different types of cac-
tus plants, many of them rare
and unusual types that are diffi-

cult to acquire and grow.
Many of them were acquired
from Israeli cactus collectors.
"There are cactus all over the
world, in arid and in moist zones,
and the early immigrants
brought cactus with them," says
Yacov Elias, head of special gar-
dens in Hayarkon Park. It was
he who started the cactus garden
and supervises it carefully.
As we look at the amazingly
varied display of plants, Mr. Elias
explains some of the challenges
of starting and maintaining the
garden:
"When we decided to make a
cactus garden, we planted 2000
plants right away," he relates.
But cactus grows very, very slow-
ly, so he also had to seek out col-
lectors who already had acquired
cacti from varied parts of the
world.
Those collectors were both
young and old. "The first immi-
grants brought cactus with them,
and some started collecting in the
1930s," says Mr. Elias.
Collectors often got to great

