Hardy Gardening

Discuss hardy cacti grown outside all year.
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John P Weiser
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Bill
You dwarf whipplei shows a lot more yellow than mine. Mine is a vivid Chartreuse color! Do you want a finger or two?
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Nice pics everyone! It's been 3 pages since I was last on cactiguide! :shock:
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My poor brain can hardly comprehend all these flowers! They're all so great.
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Tom2643 wrote:My poor brain can hardly comprehend all these flowers! They're all so great.
So your going into Opuntia overload are ya :lol:
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John P Weiser wrote:Bill
You dwarf whipplei shows a lot more yellow than mine. Mine is a vivid Chartreuse color! Do you want a finger or two?
Humm, I really have to think about it :roll: You know better than to offer me something like that :wink: I have a couple of your favorite creamy yellows picked out for you as soon as blooming stops :wink:
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A few new shots from this last week.

First curtsy of Chris. Opuntia aciculata.

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Next Echino reichinbachii var baileyi.

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Echino. caespiflosus var. minor.


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O. phaeacantha a very spiny, green padded form.


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Last a shot of a mature clump of Grusonia pulchella
from Charles. Showing the tuberous root system.


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woohoo

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The rookie hardy gardener has an entry, my first one and first cactus I've gotten to flower (meaning wasn't one bought with flower already on it).
Ec. reichenbachii v. caespitosa

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Hadn't even started to open early this AM and within a few hours I just happened to look and found it.
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Awesome flower Ray!
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Great pics guys!

Nice roots on the pulchella :D
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Opuntia phaeacantha 'coral'
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An Cylindropuntia imbricata thing.
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Opuntia grandiflora, probably now just a Tx. form of compressa/humifusa.
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And a friendly 4' gopher snake that happened to be cruising through the garden.Image
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WOW !I havent been online much lately,and i was missing quite a floral display on this thread.
Addicted to crackti !
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Ray
Congrats on your first hardy flower! I'm sure we will see many more as the years progress.

Chris
Love the coral colored phaeacantha.
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John,
You've got some nice ones there but that O. aciculata bloom is Awesome :D

Ray,
Good to see some action in your garden. Looks like there happy :)

Chris,
Don't know which I like best, the cactus flowers or the gopher snake :lol: Your O. phaeacantha "coral" is sweet-- very spiny and a sweet flower. Doesn't get much better than that. The start I got is already putting on new growth :D
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WooHoo, finally have the first ever cholla flower in my garden :D
Heres C. imbricata.
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Heres O. grandiflora.
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Nice pics, Chris. The *coral* is awesome!

Congrats on the cholla bloom, Bill.
Shes a beaut!
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