Nice shot. Too bad your prickly pears didn't make it into the contest.

Carnegiea gigantea. Bagdad, Arizona

A short list, and in no particular order:

1) Looking for desert watering holes
2) 4x4-ing
3) Beer
4) Watching plants grow
5) Reading

Check out this wild Tucson Peniocereus greggii (Arizona Queen-of-the-Night) wrapped up in the dead branches of an ironwood tree. All of the cactus arms originate from a single woody stem situated at the bottom left-hand side of the photo. :offtheair: ...and a more close up shot, which doesn't even c...

I have never seen one with a flower on it. Occasionally, I will see some with the big red fruits. More often, I stumble across them by chance. The good news is that they tend to cluster together. I found five of them within a 20-meter-diamter area on Ft. Huachuca, in southeastern Arizona (Where's Wa...

Yikes. My skin feels irritated just thinking about the little red suckers.

There was one saguaro reported to be 78 feet tall!

http://www.desertmuseum.org/books/cacti.html

Sure, you can use them.

No. It is not my backyard. I wish! and I meant to say that saguaros and ocotillos are two of my favorite types of succulents. I took these photos while doing an archaeological survey up the slope of Tumamoc Hill, just west of downtown Tucson. The hill is a natural preserve, but it also happens to ha...

Just wanted to show some rock art and two of my favorite succulents.

For the time being, I put it in a 5-gallon bucket with soil from the site. Does it need to be watered or should I wait until late winter? Is transplanting a cactus in the winter a bad idea? I didn't really have much of a choice.

Is this old saguaro developing a cristate?





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I have been working on a construction site where a backhoe pulled up a night-blooming cereus (Peniocereus greggii). Apparently, the stems broke off and were lost, and now, all that is left is the large tuber. Is there a chance that a new stem will grow up from the tuber? If so, what is the best way ...

I am no expert, but it looks like they need to have a more well-drained soil. Maybe a half gravelly sand, half topsoil mixture? Your planter needs a hole (or holes) in the bottom and some larger gravels along the base to sieve the water. Anyway, that seems to be the magic combination for my opuntias.