Minime8484's C&S Collection - 2015

[Cleistocrazy]

Interesting flowers on Cleistocactus paraguariensis. Looks like they open a bit more than your normal Cleisto flower. Now I know what to look forward too when my plant gets larger. Got to love that crazy, twisted stem too!

Bob

[Ralf]

Nice to see those beautiful flowers!

[Minime8484]

Thanks all!!
Back from a week out of town for work, and things have really kicked into High Gear in my yard!

Cleistocactus samaipatanus 2 (2015-Mar28).JPG (29.36 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

FoSp (2015-Mar28).JPG (30.16 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Astrophytum ornatum (2015-Mar28).JPG (52.43 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Corryocactus apiciflorus (2015-Mar28).JPG (29.13 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Dyckia remotiflora (2015-Mar28).JPG (24.45 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Echinocereus boyce-thompsonii (2015-Mar28).JPG (61.07 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Echinocereus fasciculatus (2015-Mar28).JPG (40.41 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Echinocereus rayonesensis (2015-Mar28).JPG (34.57 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Echinocereus russanthus var vulpis-caudae (2015-Mar28)A.jpg (83.03 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Mammillaria mystax 2 (2015-Mar28).jpg (96.69 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Thelocactus rinconensis (2015-Mar28)B.JPG (37.95 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

Yucca rigida (2015-Mar28)A.JPG (52.56 KiB) Viewed 1556 times

[K.W.]

Good evening Tristan,

the yucca flowers are gorgeous! The other flowers as well. . .
I do not know what James has planned for my week in Tucson,
when time is we come to visit You.


Best wishes

K.W.

[jp29]

Very nice indeed Tristan. I am looking forward to visiting your garden.

[jp29]

.......... I do not know what James has planned for my week in Tucson,
when time is we come to visit You ..........

Have no fear, K.W. Tristan and I have been coordinating a visit to his garden on Sunday the day after your arrival in Tucson. The Central Arizona Cactus and Succulent Society Show and Sale is the weekend of the 10th-12th, April at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and Tristan is one of the judges. Our plan is to drive up to visit Tristan in Chandler early on Sunday morning. He will then drive us all to the DBG for the show and to tour around the garden. We will return to Tucson via Superior so that we can visit the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. A long day involving a lot of driving -- but it will be well worth it. We will have well earned the cold beverages we will enjoy on the balcony of your Tucson hotel that evening!

[K.W.]

Oh, I thought Sunday to spend at the pool!






Dear James,

now I'm sure - I have the right guide found!
I did not deserve that. Certainly not!

Wonderful !!!


K.W.

[jp29]

Oh, I thought Sunday to spend at the pool!



..........

Ah well, K.W. we can use Monday to recover .......... maybe you can sleep in a little, then we can have a leisurely breakfast, and drive over the scenic Gates Pass through a Saguaro forrest (lots of photo opportunities) to have lunch at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum and then spend the afternoon there. You can swim in your hotel pool as much as you want after dinner as long as we leave enough time for drinks and conversation on the balcony afterward. How does that sound

The remaining days of your visit? We will visit Tucson area Cactus and Succulent Nurseries; take in both the East and West Saguaro National Monuments; take photography and plant life observation trips to several of my personal favorite desert locations -- and anything else you want to see and do. By then we should be satisfactorily exhausted -- but we are young and healthy and want to have fun, right

Sorry for intruding in your thread like this, Tristan, but I thought you might want to join us on one of our adventures -- you are most welcome to do so.

[K.W.]

-- but we are young and healthy and want to have fun, right

Absolutely right!

(What about girls?)





K.W.

[jp29]

BTW, Tristan, I love your Cleistocactus paraguariensis -- it is spectacular! I would like to eventually get a cutting from you in a swap

[Cleistocrazy]

Tristan,

What a great variety of flowers! That Corryocactus apiciflorus is a first for me.

Congratulations on getting flowers on Echinocereus rayonesensis. I have never been able to get mine to flower.

Those flowers on Echinocereus russanthus var vulpis-caudae are so unusual. Such a unique color!

Your collection never ceases to amaze me...

Bob

[Minime8484]

Thanks, all! And, I look forward to you all's visit, James & KW!
Here's some more opening today.

Echinocereus engalmannii (2015-Mar30).JPG (82.41 KiB) Viewed 1496 times

Echinocereus morricalii (2015-Mar30).jpg (38.9 KiB) Viewed 1496 times

Echinocereus pentalophus 2 (2015-Mar30).JPG (90.4 KiB) Viewed 1496 times

Parodia werneri (2015-Mar30).JPG (77.81 KiB) Viewed 1496 times

[cactushobbyman]

Echinocereus engalmannii (2015-Mar30).JPG : Mine are just starting to bud and a few flowers, but not like that dark flowered one. That is very nice.

[RichR]

Nice job. Beautiful plants!

[Minime8484]

It's a Cleistocactus kind of day!

Cleistocactus baumannii 1 (2015-Apr01).jpg (54.26 KiB) Viewed 1463 times

Cleistocactus dependens (2015-Apr01)A.jpg (31.09 KiB) Viewed 1463 times

Cleistocactus dependens (2015-Apr01)B.jpg (38.2 KiB) Viewed 1463 times