I understand the name of these cacti has recently been expanded from Echinocereus viridiflorus to Echinocereus viridiflorus var. montanus. This plant is blooming with some Buffalo Grass growing around it.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 Echinocereus viridiflorus var. montanus I understand the name of these cacti has recently been expanded from Echinocereus viridiflorus to Echinocereus viridiflorus var. montanus. This plant is blooming with some Buffalo Grass growing around it.
posted by Stan at 9:55 PM Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Echinocereus viridiflorus plants with flowers
posted by Stan at 7:57 PM Monday, May 28, 2007 Two Spiders  There were two spiders hiding on this pad when I pulled it out of the gravel. I think they may be hunting each other, so I left them on the ground. I imagine one of them made a meal out of the other, but I turned my attention to planting the Prickly Pear Pad. Labels: insects
posted by Stan at 6:40 PM Sunday, May 27, 2007 Opuntia rooting  This 'Prickly Pear Cactus' Pad was cut off of its parent plant back in the fall of 2006. Then it spent the winter sitting in an unheated room under artificial lights for the winter. In the early spring it was placed outdoors (with about 40 other pads) in a tray of gravel. The spring snow and rains came and the cool weather slowly turned to warm sunny days. Then the cut pads began to grow roots like this one - so now they are potted in their own flower pots and growing as new plants. This one is turned upside down to show the roots it put out before it was planted. Labels: spring
posted by Stan at 7:25 PM Opuntia spring growth  I really enjoy watching the Opuntia 'Prickly Pear Cactus' plants in the spring. They grow very fast and put out new pads. These plants seem to grow so fast this time of year that they can make one worry that we could run out of room for them. This photo is of a plant putting out a new pad from the top of last years growth.
posted by Stan at 11:06 AM Thursday, May 24, 2007 Pediocactus simpsonii var. minor in bloom  Fun with Pedios, and lots of flowers to pollinate.
posted by Stan at 7:25 PM Saturday, May 19, 2007 Rebutia and Lobivia  These two cacti are from a greenhouse in Arizona from our trip. The orange flowered one is labeled a Rebutia and the orange and white one is labeled a Lobivia hybrid. I wish we bought more of these, but these two are making good pets.
posted by Stan at 3:12 PM Thursday, May 17, 2007 Orchid Cactus in Bloom
Here is a video Stan shot of our Orchid Cactus in Bloom. Because moving the cactus to a better spot will cause it to lose its blooms, we had to keep it still on the back porch. This caused a difficulty in shooting pictures, but I thought maybe by making a video out of it, it would showcase the spectacularity of it a little better. It was an amazing year for this cactus!
Please note there is also a smaller blooming flat-leaved cactus (Easter or Christmas, not sure which) there as well which is not part of the big one. No need to turn your speakers on, there is no relevant sound on the video (maybe a cat meow or people outside is all)
posted by Ann at 2:00 PM Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Pediocactus viridiflorus  If it ever did exist this would be it - or one more Pediocactus photo simply for the beauty of them.
posted by Stan at 7:03 PM Monday, May 14, 2007 Pedio flower buds   These are two flower buds from Pediocactus simpsonii var. minor and one of them is from the plants with green throats. The flowers with green inside also have green exteriors and most of the Pedios I'm growing have the pink flowers. The pink flowers and even other white flowers have a deep rusty red colored exterior. Labels: spring
posted by Stan at 4:43 PM Sunday, May 13, 2007 Pediocactus simpsonii var. minor  These Pedios are wild... the flowers have green throats. I tried to pollinate them today with a paint brush. Between two plants there were only three flowers open, so even if there are seeds there won't be many from the greenish flowers. The flowers are sort of translucent looking and look yellow from a distance. Up close they look sort of white, pink yellow and green all at once.
posted by Stan at 8:08 PM Saturday, May 12, 2007 Disocactus ackermannii  This is the cactus I've had the longest and my grandmother gave me a stem to start with when I was a child. I've had some trouble getting this plant to bloom while living in Wisconsin, but it really has been my own stupidity. I've been moving the plants outdoors in the spring, only to have them lose their buds. This year I simply left them in the same room I winter them in on our back porch. The room is unheated and quite dark - getting much colder than most growers think this species can tolerate - but the plants have set buds every spring. This is the first spring the buds have turned into flowers, and only because I didn't move the plants outdoors too soon.
posted by Stan at 8:37 PM Mini Colorado Mountain Habitat  These cacti are Echinocereus viridiflorus var montanus that a friend of mine gave me from his mountain property several years ago. I'm growing them here in Wisconsin and getting seeds from them for propagation. When I planted these cacti other small plants started to grow with them like; a very short spring grass, small white flowered plants that grow less than an inch across and a mountain sedum. These plants are all growing together and multiplying as though they were on my friends mountain top property. Labels: spring
posted by Stan at 8:28 PM Thursday, May 10, 2007 Opuntia flowers near Colossal Cave  Opuntia flowers were just beginning to open while we were in the southwest, and if we could have stayed another week we may have seen a lot of them. Colossal
posted by Stan at 7:48 PM Tuesday, May 08, 2007 Opuntia violacea  We saw lots of these kinds of Opuntia growing around the Tucson area. I think they were all planted as ornamental plants, because I'm not sure we saw any growing in wild areas. They are very beautiful and it is easy to see why so many people would plant these in their yards, and lots of business places had them too. There were some growing in front of the '8' we were staying at in Benson. I asked the employees if we could take a few pads to root, and they said lots of people ask for them. We have 3 pads sitting in a pot full of gravel outside and we are waiting for them to grow roots. This photo is of one in bloom, but not the same plant we are trying to root.
posted by Stan at 8:33 PM Sunday, May 06, 2007 Fouquieria flowers  The Fouquieria were blooming all over, and this is a photo of one inside of Organ Pipe Cactus N.M.. This is the first time we've ever seen these plants in bloom. I've tries growing some from seeds a few times and have never been able to get them to grow past the seedling stage. I'll probably try again some time with some better methods than I was using a few years ago. I think the soil fly maggots or some kind of small fly larva were using the seedlings for food. I was very happy to see some growing in habitat and in bloom.
posted by Stan at 3:12 PM Saturday, May 05, 2007 Lophocereus schottii  We have wanted to see Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument for a few decades, but it has always been a low priority and too far away. With our trip on the old 66 we decided that Organ Pipe Cactus N. M. would be the destiny of the journey instead of California. When we arrived we learned that most of the park is closed off because of national security issues - not that we had a four wheel drive jeep to take on the long roads rocky roads inside of the park anyway... There was still a lot of beautiful cacti to see off of the paved roads in the park and we were satisfied with the small amount of the park we could drive through. This Lophocereus scottii was in the visitors center garden and blooming. I understand the parts of the park is closed off now where one could see these growing in nature. I'm glad they at least had one growing at the visitors center.
posted by Stan at 9:01 PM Wednesday, May 02, 2007 Teddy Bear Cholla  I've been in the south west where these grow about 5 times in my life and every it's like seeing them for the first time. Teddy Bear Cholla or Cylindropuntia bigelovii look like something from another world, and it's even hard to think of them as cactus plants. In their extremely spiny condition they look like trees with soft spring flowers that haven't even put out their leaves yet for the summer. I imaging every landscape artist in the south west has to paint these in at least one painting.
posted by Stan at 8:03 PM Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Rose like Flowers  I'm sure most people who live in the south west would be familiar with these flowers, but I've never seen them before. They are very beautiful and would like to know what their name is - either common or scientific???
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