Flowers 2022

[ShadyStump]

Tiny cactus tiny flower
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The wild cactus around here won't bloom for a couple more months, but they are spectacular when it happens. I'll be collecting prickly pears at the end of summer for cooking with, and have a few seeds from last year I need to find a place to plant.

 

[penumbra]

I don't care much for poinsettia per say, but they have so many now that I cant resist.

 

[Crazy Diamond]

The wild cactus around here won't bloom for a couple more months, but they are spectacular when it happens. I'll be collecting prickly pears at the end of summer for cooking with, and have a few seeds from last year I need to find a place to plant.

That one is a Mammillaria vetula gracilis, the rare subespecies with red flower, the more common one:

 

[ShadyStump]

That one is a Mammillaria vetula gracilis, the rare subespecies with red flower, the more common one:
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The needles on this one are incredible. I've always wondered how much of the needle growth on cactus is breed vs care. I've never had opportunity to cultivate cactus before, so there's so much I really have no clue about.

 

[Crazy Diamond]

They are very easy to care for and very rewarding, some of my cacti I have a lot more and succulents hehe

 

[AlainK]

A beautiful Plum growing in the kibbutz. Definitely thinking about taking cuttings of this one.

Do you know what species this is ? I can see a label but I can't read the hebraic alphabet...

 

[River's Edge]

" Toyo Nishiki Improved " quince in bloom. Love the delicate coloration of this cultivar!

 

[Moridin]

 

[Carol 83]

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So, you're in Holland?

 

[Moridin]

So, you're in Holland?

Hike around Golden Gate park yesterday morning before heading home from vacation

 

[Moridin]

I may or may not have feed that crabapple going into work

 

[junmilo]

Red Ume

 

[tangledtanuki]

Do you know what species this is ? I can see a label but I can't read the hebraic alphabet...

It says that its a Bell Plum for the direct translation. On further investigation it might be Taiwan Cherry (Prunus campunulata), I will be trying to take a few cuttings and air layers on the tree this year and next for sure.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

@Arnold - I marvel at your restraint, there are no teeth marks from you gnawing on the Lophophora cactus. Mine never got a chance to get that old, I would end up eating them.

It takes years to get a Lophophora up to flowering size, in my climate, they are quite slow.

 

[Crazy Diamond]

hehe I bought it very cheap in a nursery just 2 euros or something like that

 

[Crazy Diamond]

Another beautiful invasive, Ipomoea purpurea

 

[Firstflush]

So it was a loph....cool!

 

[amcoffeegirl]

I picked up a begonia at the supermarket last spring and I took cuttings just before our winter freeze. I was able to keep them alive over winter.
nice peachy color.

 

[penumbra]

@Arnold - I marvel at your restraint, there are no teeth marks from you gnawing on the Lophophora cactus. Mine never got a chance to get that old, I would end up eating them.

It takes years to get a Lophophora up to flowering size, in my climate, they are quite slow.

Man, do they ever grow slow. Mine have changed so little in 5 years. They are about nickle size now.

 

[penumbra]

I picked up a begonia at the supermarket last spring and I took cuttings just before our winter freeze. I was able to keep them alive over winter.
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These are my favorite colors, peach & apricot or anything close in combination.