Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Good evening dear cacti friends,

a few (preview) photos from today - 16th May 2022.
After 4 weeks today the first rain in Köln, only 7 Liter per sqm².




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Courage dear friends!


Best wishes

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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Sulcos are fantastic! Even just half of them blooms in May that will do the show.
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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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7george wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 7:54 pm Sulcos are fantastic! Even just half of them blooms in May that will do the show.
=D> =D> =D>

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Good evening dear cacti-friends,

warm and sunny weather in Köln. Flowers, flowers, flowers and so little time. . .
Hopefully I will be able to show more photos soon.
At the moment I take 300 to 400 photos every day.
The plants are trying hard and I hardly have time and leisure.



Here we go. . .

Sulcorebutia ( and may be one or two Mediolobivia or Aylostera )
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Courage dear friends!


Best wishes

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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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K.W.
everything is usually so pristine and it's hard to imagine any of your plants dying. Well now we have proof not all is perfect in the greenhouses. :)
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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Good evening dear cacti-friends,
good evening Mike my friend,

yes this happens from time to time.
Last winter I lost maybe 40 plants. . . That's a lot and I'm sorry for each one!
But on the other hand, I'm talking about 0.5%. . .
Then the sorrow is put into perspective.

Of course, things can always be worse than expected. . .
I will come back to that.

Today and the coming evenings I would like to show flowers from May 30, 2022, big pardon, a lot of flowers!!!


I'll just get started. . .

This & That - greenhouse and outdoor-dining
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and again outdoor-dining
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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Good evening dear cacti-friends,

a new evening and another part with flowers from June 30, 2022.
Some photos of plants in the outdoor-dining and some from the greenhouse.


Already it starts. . .
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. . . and in the greenhouse
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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Good evening dear cacti-friends,

it continues with the third part of the flowers of 30 June 2022.
Today you have to be very strong - Sulcorebutia in outdoor-dining. . .


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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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flowers from 30.May 2022, part 3/?, post 2/2


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Good evening dear cacti-friends,

after a few days of recovery from all the Sulcorebutia blooms. . .
Today some more photos from May 30, 2022; 4th part Sulcorebutia flowers. . .
But it is not exclusively the flowers, the thorns are also so wonderfully diverse.
Have fun with the little plants, in the 5th part there are Sulcorebutia flowers. . . :D :mrgreen:


Sulcorebutia all in the outdoor-dining
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flowers from 30.May 2022, part 4/?, post 2/2


more Sulcorebutia. . .
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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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K.W. its summer in your neck of the woods, correct?.
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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Good evening dear cacti-friends,
I hope you are all well and have survived my Sulcorebutia attack well until here. . .?
Today comes with the 5th part of the Sulcorebutia flowers the last challenge.
In the further post's there are then completely "normal" blooms of completely "normal" other cacti.
Nevertheless or because of that have fun.

I was asked. . . My Sulcorebutia live in the outdoor-dining.
They like a lot of wind and fresh air.
Direct sun, but maybe not all day.
Plenty of water and fertilizer at the time of growth and flowering.
In winter, cool to minus 5 ° Celsius from time to time.
Dry from November to March, but if it is mild in January or February even a light "rain".
AND fresh air, air, air. . .



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flowers from 30.May 2022, part 5/?, post 2/2


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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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mikethecactusguy wrote: Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:21 am K.W. its summer in your neck of the woods, correct?.

Good evening Mike, yes since 1.June is meteorologically summer.
Good evening Mike, no the summer begins on 21.June at 11:13 am, astronomically.

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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Beautiful blooms. Makes all the work the rest of the year worth it.
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