Winter flowers
Winter flowers
Nice flowers on a bright Winter day in S CA . This one comes out of dormancy last of all my Conophytums, I always worry its dead but nope its OK.
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Re: Winter flowers
That's such a nice blooming of your conophytum Keith, congratulations!
"The best fertilizer is the gardener's own shadow"
Chinese proverb
Chinese proverb
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Re: Winter flowers
Lovely! Would you please show the plant, too? I am curious as I don't know them.
Thanks.
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Thanks.
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Love and Revolution!
...and still more cacti.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, getting definitely hotter every year.
...and still more cacti.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, getting definitely hotter every year.
Re: Winter flowers
Covered in dry skin right when it flowers, its a small plant at least right now. I will take a picture in a few months when its growing .
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Re: Winter flowers
Late winter cactus flower. Try for some seeds by Summer.
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Re: Winter flowers
conophytum ectypum ssp. brownii is the name of the conophytum
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Re: Winter flowers
Totally unexpected -- my Loph. never flowered in winter:
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Love and Revolution!
...and still more cacti.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, getting definitely hotter every year.
...and still more cacti.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, getting definitely hotter every year.
Re: Winter flowers
My Lopho's haven't flowered yet usually they flower in the middle of Summer here. They are just starting to wake up now after 'sleeping" during Winter and really shriveling up during that time. Yours is in 100% pumice ? Looks happy enough in that sunny window.
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Re: Winter flowers
yes, that cacs has pure pumice. haven*t watered it since october, as usual. and it never flowered in spring, middle of summer is the usual time (if at all).
so i am really surprised.
last summer it got a new place on the balcony, obviously it loved it. this south side window (relatively cool sleeping room, sun is the only heating) is the usual winter quarter.
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so i am really surprised.
last summer it got a new place on the balcony, obviously it loved it. this south side window (relatively cool sleeping room, sun is the only heating) is the usual winter quarter.
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Love and Revolution!
...and still more cacti.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, getting definitely hotter every year.
...and still more cacti.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, getting definitely hotter every year.
Re: Winter flowers
My lophs started making fruit about three weeks ago and flowers about a week ago. It's getting a little warmer and we had some light rain. They are all puffed up and ready to go. I seem to recall my lophs flowering whenever it's not cold. Cold here is below 60F (to me, anyway).
Disclaimer: I'm in sunny Arizona, so any advice I give may not apply in your circumstances.
Tim
Tim
Re: Winter flowers
Most of my cactus are just waking up, some early flowers now like turbinicarpus. A few conophytums are already asleep.
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Re: Winter flowers
Hallo Keith, why don't you show us some pictures?
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Love and Revolution!
...and still more cacti.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, getting definitely hotter every year.
...and still more cacti.
Location: Stuttgart, Germany, getting definitely hotter every year.
Re: Winter flowers
Aloe in the rock garden with bulbine and echeverra which flower later
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Re: Winter flowers
Aloe plicatilis (Fan Aloe)
Re: Winter flowers
Aloe plicatilis (Fan Aloe) can be used as a landscape plant in California
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