Starr Nursery

02/16/2025

After three years of work, I self-published Cool Cacti and Succulents for Hot Gardens, a companion book to my Cool Plants for Hot Gardens. Both are available through my website -

Starr Nursery - Agaves, cacti and books for sale. Home to one of Southern Arizona's leading agave experts. Over 100 species in Starr Nursery’s online catalog.

11/29/2021

After a couple years mulling over whether I ought to revamp Cool Plants for Hot Gardens I decided to do it. It is a long and involved process to self-publish a book, but right now there are 1500 copies being bound at Roswell book binding in Phoenix. I expect to have those 1500 copies in my possession in about two weeks. Check out my recent blog post at

When the original version of Cool Plants for Hot Gardens sold out the publisher decided not to run any reprints. They returned the original files and it took me a while to decide what to do with them. I wanted to make some changes; drop some old species, add some new ones, have larger pictures […]

06/22/2020

I will be presenting my very first webinar on Thursday, June 25th about Agaves for Landscapes. This will be through the Southern California Horticultural Society. Hope you can join the festivities.

We are incredibly thrilled to announce that we have ~rescheduled~ our agave webinar for THIS Thursday, June 25 at 7:30 pm PST 🥳

Greg Starr, owner of Starr Nursery, will join us to present some basics about agaves and then move into some of the best species for landscape use in the Southwestern U.S. 🌵

Greg is also the author of 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘰𝘵 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴, which he is working on its second edition, and 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴: 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 📚

To date, Greg has described five species and one subspecies of agave and has several taxonomic projects currently on hiatus while the coronavirus shuts down field work outside of the U.S.

Join us this Thursday for a talk that is sure to fascinate and inspire you! Register today 👉 Agaves for the Landscape (Rescheduled)

Tag any friends that were unable to make it to our last meeting!

05/04/2020

Just put up some new products on the website. Check out Cyphostemma, Uncarina roeoesliana, Agave bracteosa 'Monterrey Frost', Agave oteroi (only 1 super nice clone available), Calibanus x Beaucarnea, Beaucarnea goldmanii, Echinocereus rigidissimus and Echinocereus viereckii subsp. morricalii. Quantities are limited on all the new ones.

In case you missed some earlier new plants, I still have some Agave gigantensis (the real thing from Cerro Potrero in Baja California Sur) and Agave azurea (a new one Bob Webb and I described from the Vizcaino in Baja CA).

04/06/2020

Just posted some new, limited availability products to the website. Some Echinocereus, Ferocactus, Agaves, and Dasylirion are all new. These won't last long so check it out!

03/24/2020

Hey everybody, I've been whiling away the time potting up plants and posting newly available ones on the website. I've put up some new agaves, dasylirions, Thelocactus, and a favorite Coryphantha. Check out some of the new products now available. Thank you all for sticking with us here at the humble, home-grown nursery.

03/06/2020

Hey everybody, Mark your calendars for Thursday night May 7. I'll be giving my latest presentation titled "Agave species Described Post Gentry" to the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society. I will not be able to cover all the species described since 1982 but will cover some of the coolest ones around! The TCSS meetings are held at 7:00PM at the Sky Islands Public High School, 6000E. 14th St. Hope to see you there!

Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society provides activities for people interested in cactus and succulents from around the world.

01/16/2020

Hello all, it's been awhile since I've posted. Been busy writing up another new species of agave which was finally published last week. My article describing Agave calciphila from the limestone hills at Nizanda on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Oaxaca was published by Phytotaxa. Here are a couple photos. Hopefully the link below works and takes you to the article.

https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.428.2.1

12/05/2019

Hey everybody, just finished updating the website with new products and updated availability on some favorites. Now have Agave ovatifolia ready to go in 6-inch pots, some Dudleya saxosa subsp. collomiae in 3-inch pots among other items.

10/27/2019

Good morning everybody, We have listed some new products on the website at www.starr-nursery.com. We have a couple each of Agave glomeruliflora, Mammillaria petterssonii, Agave parryi from the Sierrita Mountains just south of Tucson, Agave pintilla, Mammillaria candida, Thelocactus macdowellii, Astrophytum myriostigma var. strongylogonum, Astrophytum myriostigma "quadricostatum", Agave cerulata, and Agave sobria ssp. roseana. These will not last long!

09/06/2019

Hey everybody, we have been busy at Starr Nursery this summer and have some new products on-line as well as some returning products back in stock. We have updated availability on many of the agaves, astrophytums, and ferocactus. Check it out at www.starr-nursery.com.

02/10/2019

Out of commission for a while as I had surgery to fix a detached retina yesterday. Seems to be an epidemic going around.