Yeah I'll buy that it's O. cochenillifera I guess I just haven't seen one in ages

Well...just about anything that is or was opuntia at one point or another (such as Brasiliopuntia which was once Opuntia brasilliensis I believe) is called a prickly pear, or at least can be. Plus if this thing was grown by Altman, which so many big box plants are, they'll 20 plants the same name ev...

I usually have a few flowers on my S. truncata, but the one with the rounder, fleshier stems seems to be a lot pickier and only ever flowers if it gets a summer outside. I'm guessing it must be more demanding of photoperiod?

That's pretty wild! But, still doesn't compare to my disturbing find while mowing the lawn this spring. :shock: It looked like... ummmm... A male body part.... :shock: That was probably one of the many other stinkhorn mushrooms...they're quite the graphic group of fungi... in fact they belong to th...

I love that bright tangerine nasturtium. Actually I just love nasturtiums in general, they always produce such intense colors

Yeah, I guess it'd just be nice to know vaguely what it's parentage might be. I just remembered that the mother plant is sitting outside so maybe I'll get lucky and that one will have had enough exposure to fluctuating light and temps to produce some flowers for me.

I'd have to agree with Marten

Bah, I wish I had put these guys outside for the summer so that they might have a fighting chance of blooming...oh well. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

I'm positive the first one is Schlumbergera. I wish I had pictures of the other when it bloomed but they were most definitely not Hatoria, I've got several of those and the berries and flowers look nothing like hatoria. They're very Schlumbergera-like only radially symmetrical instead of bilaterally...

I've got two schlumbergera that I'm not quite sure of. I know they're not S. truncata but that's about all I know. http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/1222_DSC02126_1.jpg The first one is the classic "been in the family for 5 million years" pass-along plant. The flowers are magenta and...

So pretty! All of those opuntia are so great

I made a trip back up to MN to see my parents and weed out my cactus garden (actually the trip was mostly to weed out the garden...my mom called two weeks earlier and said I needed to come weed the garden or she was going to rip it out...). It seems they've really been enjoying the rain this spring ...

When in doubt, make the garden 6 times bigger than you think you'll need.

I think I need that.

I love D. foetida! Such a great little plant.