I haven't had a show like this in years, if ever. The flowers, the bees, and more flowers. I went out this morning and you could smell the flowers fifty feet away. And the bees, it was like a swarm, almost every flowers had at least one bee if not several, and I thought bees were in a decline.
Wow, amazing how many of those big flowers could fit on .....wait, there's a plant in there?
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hahahaha there were a lot of flowers for sure. At the moment the bees here are swarming on the Palo Verde trees. Last year around this time a guy was driving a truck and got stung by a bee on his face and crashed off the road. My Palo Verde tree created a car accident lol
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
that is amazing!! I would definitely harvest the fruits of those plants, there may just be an interesting new hybrid in there!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus ... es=huascha" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; They can have red flowers or orange ones.. The stems look kinda like E. spachiana too, but then again that might just be a hybrid E. spachiana. I can't wait til mine decide to bloom!
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
A cactus and succulent collector who especially likes Ariocarpus. …Though I have a bit of everything! Want some pictures? See my flickr! I also do art and such.
Peterthecactusguy wrote:first one might be Echinopsis huascha
http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus ... es=huascha" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; They can have red flowers or orange ones.. The stems look kinda like E. spachiana too, but then again that might just be a hybrid E. spachiana. I can't wait til mine decide to bloom!
It is a hybrid. These are my E. huasha and an E. engelmanni. This year the flowers are more than I've seen in a long time.
HOLY COW!! WOW those are all just flippin stunning, if i was there and there was no bees around i would be sittin on the ground with my face smashed into the blooms and my nose just inhaling the scent OOOOOOLALA!! Thats just amazing such beautiful mega blooms.
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That is truly stunning!!
Now that is an incentive to move to California, to grow plants like those. 
How long will the show last?
