BTW, there's been 2 or 3 new NC Forum members I've been referring your way. Hope you don't mind & they're taking up the referral!Spring blooms
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MJ - When is North Carolina going to recognize your garden as "The State C & S Garden"! BTW, there's been 2 or 3 new NC Forum members I've been referring your way. Hope you don't mind & they're taking up the referral!
BTW, there's been 2 or 3 new NC Forum members I've been referring your way. Hope you don't mind & they're taking up the referral!Once bitten by the cactus collecting/growing bug, there is no known cure!
There's no 12 step programme for Cactaholics...so I shall just have to get some more!!
There's no 12 step programme for Cactaholics...so I shall just have to get some more!!
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No trouble at all, hoteidoc.
Allow me to share some of today's blooms...
Allow me to share some of today's blooms...
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and Trichocereus 'Luscious'
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and Lobivia haematantha rebutioides L566 from Mesa Garden
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These were blooming late this afternoon...
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and
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and
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and - last for the day -
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Well, Lobivia haematantha rebutioides decided to fire all guns today, so here's a photo of the foursome again...
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detail of this particular Lobivia haematantha rebutioides
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Notocactus scopa was in bloom today...
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and the Lobivia thionantha decided to fully open its flowers
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and I was VERY pleased to see the flowers of Acanthocalycium violaceum today...
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In the Opuntia garden this O. polyacantha hystricina bowled me over with its unexpectedly vibrant color
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This Echinopsis ferox overwintered in its pot outside, the resulting scars now hidden, quite fortunately, by flowers.
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