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Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:43 am
by 7george
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:53 am
by 7george
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:15 am
by jerrytheplater
Hummingbird? in the second photo.
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:54 pm
by 7george
Yes, they were all greenish hummingburds and not all visitors spotted them.
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:25 pm
by ohugal
Nice!
I like how the path and the 'beds' are one whole. It gives a more natural feel.
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:01 am
by ossy96
The 8 photo must be opuntia cochenillifera, is it?
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:29 am
by 7george
The 8 photo must be opuntia cochenillifera, is it?
I guess so if it is not another Nopalea...
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:32 am
by 7george
Somebody knows about
Neoporteria cachytaensis?
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:00 pm
by Nino_G
7george wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:32 am
Somebody knows about
Neoporteria cachytaensis?
According to LLifle correct spelling would be
Neoporteria cachytayensis. It's not a valid name and it's considered to be a form of
Eriosyce taltalensis.
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:41 am
by MrXeric
Those hummingbird nests are so well camouflaged, I could only spot the one in the Opuntia because of the black beak!
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:18 pm
by jerrytheplater
MrXeric wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:41 am
Those hummingbird nests are so well camouflaged, I could only spot the one in the Opuntia because of the black beak!
Using your hint I went back and looked again and found it. It was right in front of my eyes, but I never saw it. I was looking at the dark patches thinking they might be cavities and the bird would be inside it.
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:05 am
by 7george
Some more views of that place.
A Tephrocactus I liked.
A huge old G. saglionis.
These cacti like their big pots.
M. mazatlanensis.
M. formosa.
Acanthocereus growing in all directions.
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:22 pm
by jerrytheplater
Question on the Leuchtenbergia, if you know- The tubercles on your photo are all green out to the tips. Mine die off at the tips. Am I not giving it enough water? I've been growing my two since 2009 and one even flowered last year. But I'm not happy with them.
Repotted April 2021 so here are bare root plants:
- rsz 2021-4-3 Leuchtenbergia principis.jpg (131.06 KiB) Viewed 958 times
Oct 2022:
- rsz 2022-10-11 Leuchtenbergia principis 1a.jpg (113.5 KiB) Viewed 958 times
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:33 am
by 7george
Old tubercles always die but the care matters. That greenhouse is quite shaded, at about 50% or more. Also Leuchtenbergia in culture are in two different varieties that have different body colors and maybe tubercles' longevity.
Fleshy roots store juices in a dry period so aboveground parts can dry out then.
Re: Moorten Botanical Garden is still opened
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:44 pm
by jerrytheplater
Hey George, I just saw I posted these same photo's last year in a different post of yours. My apologies. I didn't remember I did it. Still trying to figure out how to grow these plants.
I have begun keeping my plants in the same Eastern exposure my Malagasy Euphorbia get. Full sun until 1 pm, then shade of the house. Plants in an Eastern exposure right up against my house.
