A nursery/garden in Victoria, Australia makes a cactus & carrot cake with opuntia pads. The recipe is secret though (tastes pretty good).

Thanks for the comments everyone. Usually I mark the date when I sow seed but I must've forgotten this time. I know this is halfway through their 2nd growing season, about 1 and a half years old I'd say. I lost about half of the batch over winter but the survivors do look happy. The seed came labled...

Hi all, today I had the first flower from a cactus I grew from seed, and on its own roots. An Astrophytum asterias, barely an inch in diameter. When I saw the flower bud I couldn't believe such a young plant could have the energy to do it. Well I didn't get the best pictures and the flower is so tin...

It can be a very lovely scent eh. I've heard that not all of the Trichocereus have such a nice scent. The spachianus in my garden will not stop flowering, flush after flush. I thought it had finally finished but I see another 25 buds developing on a single column.. cool plant, thx.

Hi,

I think the plants in the first post are indeed T pachanoi. I think they're seed grown from Mesa Garden T pachanoi labled seed.

The picture in the last post is T bridgesii/E lageniformis

Cool, I had a couple of these flowering recently. They're pretty big and the flowers were all blocked up by spines as you said, I never even saw inside the flower like your plant. My favourite thing about this plant is that the dead flower buds drop off quickly, so you have a nice clean plant soon a...

Very very nice Tina, not many pictures of this plant on the net

nice, scopulicola doesn't take as long to flower as pachanoi either. It should bloom in a couple of years.

I would have said Kalancho thyrsiflora but obviously I don't know jack about succulents. I guess the leaf shape is different?

great shots

That is a fantastic specimen, Franj. Treasure it.

I was so excited when I saw this little bud. I'd been begging my heliosas to flower but they wouldn't budge and then this year I get teased with a single flower! http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8936/heliosasx1.jpg and of course the Lobivia aurea is also flowering, as usual. http://img142.imagesha...

Looks like one in my garden thats in flower right now. I don't know the name.

Faslimy, If it was me, I'd just open the door and let the flies in to do their job. Our regular house fly here does the job perfectly. I usually have the door open if it is a sunny day but when a fly comes in it usually spends most of the time trying to fly through the glass and eventually falls vi...

Thanks for the link peterb. I now realise now my topic should have been Stapeliad Pollination. I'm really stimulated by what i've read, it astounds me how unique and specialised the whole process is. I'm seriously thinking about buying a microscope with an industrial mount to try this out. I managed...