Hana's cacti

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A small Uebelmannia buiningii was in flower yesterday afternoon.
Spring is still faraway but this one pushes a flower up.
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I use bottom rubble which are mixed 20 mm-scoria and 10 mm-pumice.
These materials are reused and so it is mixed scoria and pumice.

These materials are washed and dried before reusing.
The photo is reusing bottom rubble under drying.'

That's what I do too. I reuse them too and have a screen to catch them and separate from the soil which I rarely reuse.
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Hanazono wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:20 am G'morning keith,
How do you keep the soil from falling out of the bottom of those pots ?
I use bottom rubble which are mixed 20 mm-scoria and 10 mm-pumice.
These materials are reused and so it is mixed scoria and pumice.

These materials are washed and dried before reusing.
The photo is reusing bottom rubble under drying.
Well done!
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A steel fence stands on the south side of large greenhouse, which height is 1.8 m.
I planted Euryops Pectinatus along the fence as the decoration of greenhouse some years ago.
The instruction said the plant would reach to 1m height.

The photo is the current situation. The height is more than 2m. The south side of greenhouse affects on sunlight intake.
I will cut them back after finished the flower.

It is still in winter inside of the greenhouse but spring has come to outside.
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Good evening Frank,

it is always pleasant and instructive to read your posts! =D>

But there is one big drawback when I read your posts;
the closer to you the spring - the more I approach the autumn and winter. . . :cry:


Best wishes

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Nice and big Euryops you have there, Frank! 👍
They flower for very long period of time. Good for attracting pollinators to the garden.
Here our temperature still 0°C and frosty this morning, not much happening in the greenhouse. In the bush around the property, some native daisy (Brachyscome), Acacia, Hakea, Eucalyptus, Stenanthera and Drosera flowering at the moment. The native terrestrial orchids should be flowering soon, hopefully.
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G'morning K.W.,
But there is one big drawback when I read your posts;
the closer to you the spring - the more I approach the autumn and winter. .
Thanks for your comment. You are correct. Our forum members live in all over the world and some members are in opposit season.
I think the above truth is an advantage for the forum. If all members could post their available subjects, there are on interruption of posting in winter.

Frank
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G'afternoon Bryan,

Thanks for your comment.
Here our temperature still 0°C and frosty this morning, not much happening in the greenhouse.
Although it is cold in the morning, daytime is relatively warm especially last 3 days.
The temperature in greenhous reached to almost 30 'C but cacti need cold winter which affects on the flowering in spring.
I can not give lower temperature to cacti and so I simulate winter by stopping watering.

Frank
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Aloes in my fronyard have pushed flowering buds up. They will open flowers soon.
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There is a soil belt in front of the large greenhouse where is between a cocrete walkway and the greenhoue. The belt is 40 cm x 12 m.

Since weeds grow on this belt especially in winter, I have planted sweet violet (viola odorate) as the grand cover.
I do not know who planted originally but several sweet violet plants were in my backyard when I bought the house.
I devided original ones and planted on the belt. It is not covered all length yet and my job has been progressing.

The photo is current situation in front of the large greenhouse.
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Hanazono wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:02 pm There is a soil belt in front of the large greenhouse where is between a cocrete walkway and the greenhoue. The belt is 40 cm x 12 m.
Since weeds grow on this belt especially in winter, I have planted sweet violet (viola odorate) as the grand cover.
I do not know who planted originally but several sweet violet plants were in my backyard when I bought the house.
I devided original ones and planted on the belt. It is not covered all length yet and my job has been progressing.
The photo is current situation in front of the large greenhouse.
Good morning Frank!
With the prices of vegetables at the moment, you have enough green vegetable for a month with the amount of Sweet Violet. :D :D :D
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G'morning Bryan,

Thanks for your information.
you have enough green vegetable for a month with the amount of Sweet Violet.
I knew seed and root of sweet violet are poison but I did not know you can eat flower and leaf.

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The succulent on photo is planted in front of the large greenhouse.
Since I am not familiar with names of succulent, I checked the name by Google Lens. The answer was "Gasteria acinacifolia" but I do not have enough confidence.
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Hanazono wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 10:44 pm G'morning Bryan,

Thanks for your information.
you have enough green vegetable for a month with the amount of Sweet Violet.
I knew seed and root of sweet violet are poison but I did not know you can eat flower and leaf.

Frank
Hi Frank.
Yes you can eat the flowers and leaves. The flowers have nice fragrance, some people used it to make jam, candle, essential oil etc, but to eat, it's too dry for me. The leaves texture a bit rough, you can use it like spinach, cooked it will make it better texture and taste. Can add it to misoshiru. 👍
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Hanazono wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:02 am The succulent on photo is planted in front of the large greenhouse.
Since I am not familiar with names of succulent, I checked the name by Google Lens. The answer was "Gasteria acinacifolia" but I do not have enough confidence.
I think it looks like G. pillansii.
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