Nice job there, Bill! I wish mine could get that nice!
Oh, be forewarned that your teddy-bears might not do as well as you might expect: they thrive in the heat and I wonder if they can take the winters in KC.
Here are my latest entries in the Garden is Growing/Blooming topic, all photos taken 20-21 May 2005 except as noted:
Beehive
Coryphantha (
Escobaria)
vivipara var.
vivipara blooming this late afternoon! (21 May 2005, kinda early!)
http://scorpionguide.com/CorvivBloom1.jpg
http://scorpionguide.com/corvivbloomdetail.jpg
http://scorpionguide.com/CoryvivvivKJM.jpg (photo last week-ish)
New Mexico rainbow,
Echinocereus pectinatus var.
neomexicanus (photos HB credited to Hunter Burrell, my 10-year-old kid)
http://scorpionguide.com/EpnmKJMbloomin.jpg
http://scorpionguide.com/EpnmMonsterHB.jpg
Lace,
Echinocereus reichenbachii var.
perbellus (
E. caespitosus var.
perbellus to some)...got to it a little late, but there are other buds!
http://scorpionguide.com/EreichperbHBbloom.jpg
My 7-year-old daughter, Malea, helping the garden grow, planting a
Coryphantha vivipara "
neomexicana", jury out on this critter from Eddy County, New Mexico
http://scorpionguide.com/MNMplantingEnm.jpg (yes, I know it says "Enm".)
](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
Two views of the garden with part of Canyon, Texas in the background of one
http://scorpionguide.com/xericgarden.jpg
http://scorpionguide.com/xericgarden2.jpg
And older photos taken hot summer 2004 at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas:
Hunter in a big clump of
Opuntia phaeacantha var.
major
http://scorpionguide.com/op_maj_hunter.jpg
Hunter found this one in a boulder!
http://scorpionguide.com/op_major_hunter.jpg
More in situ photos of
O. p. v.
major:
http://scorpionguide.com/op_phae_maj_rim.jpg
http://scorpionguide.com/op_phae_major1.jpg
http://scorpionguide.com/op_phae_major_study.jpg
http://scorpionguide.com/op_maj_PDC.jpg
Hunter beside a gnarl of
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, one of the dreaded pencil cacti!
http://scorpionguide.com/cy_lepto_hunter.jpg
http://scorpionguide.com/cy_lepto_study.jpg
There ya go! I have others in there, but that's enough for now!
whew!
kari
http://scorpionguide.com/EpnmKJMbloomin.jpg
. Thus far in the garden there is a whole bunch of Opuntia cymochila, 2 starts of Opuntia macrorhiza, 2 Escobaria vivipara var. vivipara and 2 Yucca filamentosa (?) and 1 Cylindropuntia imbricata.
it would give ya some nice red and grey against the rocks 
