Dress like L.A.'s coolest cactus gardener

And support food-justice while yr at it

Look at this cactus-wrangling king: dusted with potting mix … handling precious terracotta… straight-up radiating desert terroir. This is Carlos Morera of L.A.’s Cactus Store, and he’s wearing the shop’s “Garden Gi,” which they released back in April. Cactus Store is cool as hell — recently they’ve been doing things like offering shelter to local BLM protestors via Instagram and, for a week, donating 100% of proceeds from their online sales to L.A.’s People’s City Council Freedom Fund.

They pitched the Gi as rockable by both legit horticultural types and open-minded garment-appreciators. In the latter category, John Mayer popped up on ig wearing one, and even though his box-fresh version couldn’t hold a candle to Carlos’s, which spent 2 years in the dirt, it was still a chill look.

The Garden Gi sold out in ~12 minutes and, like that, became a micro-legendary jawn. At the end of May we hit up Cactus Store about a restock, and co-owner Christian Cummings told us “the production timeline is currently uncertain due to COVID — we’ll announce details when we have them.” In the meantime you can buy cacti from them if yr in L.A., and other charming gear through their webstore.

Now, Blackbird Spyplane is the no. 1 source across all media for “unbeatable recon” on dope under-the-radar-joints, and our copilot Erin happens to be a green-thumbed & eagle-eyed jawnspotter — so this week, inspired by the Garden Gi, we went Mach 3+ to find an array of horticultural drip to irrigate your damn fit game, all the way “from the botanic garden to the boardroom”™ baby…