Living Desert Plants is a specialist nursery offering rare succulents and cacti. We place our focus on plants that are not generally available in retail nurseries. Our selection is ethically produced and propagated before being made available. At Living Desert Plants, you will find the weird and wonderful that you cannot find easily elsewhere.
Living Desert Plants found its roots as a hobby-turned-business created by Harry Lewis in early 2018. Harry was able to get the nursery up and running using valuable knowledge gained from his years as a nature conservationist. His respect and admiration for nature is at the core of our ethos. Therefore, we are deeply committed to ethical propagation and the conservation of South Africa’s unique flora. We encourage the concept of ‘conservation through propagation’.
We ensure that all our succulents are responsibly and artificially propagated, avoiding any harm to wild populations. By focusing on artificial nursery propagation, we not only protect biodiversity, but also provide our customers with healthy, well-acclimated plants. Many of the indigenous species we offer for sale are grown by ourselves from seed or propagations.