The Moorten Family Botanical Gardens was created to share the beauty and extraordinary varieties of desert plants with everyone who visits. It was established in 1938 by Chester “Cactus Slim” Moorten and his wife, Patricia, and features desert trees, plants, and cacti come from around the world and range in size from miniature to giants. Before he was a cactus curator, Moorten was an actor. He was one of the original “Keystone Cops,” actors who played incompetent policemen in a number of comedic silent films. After Moorten came down with tuberculosis,…
