KK. Really nice! Pretty Cereus about to bloom behind it too!!!
April Blooms
Tall_Shadow
Apr 27, 2009
What cute animal is that looking out from under the pot?
Hi All,
Carol, there are only four pots in that picture, and technically, only four plants! Leftmost is my baby Bunya Bunya Tree (Auricaria bidwillii) which is currently playing host to a baby fig tree and some toad flax, both of which I need to get rid of!
The Stapelia gigantea is in the middle and there is a Pachypodium lameirii at the back right with my poor bay tree being smothered by the purple flowered Aptenia cordifolia in front of the Pachypodium. No Cereus of any kind there - I am a bit confused!
Alison, that cute animal is my rather battered concrete Siamese cat - when Kael was a baby and he saw it for the first time, he hissed and spat at it - I fell about laughing! At the risk of diverting this thread even further from it's intended purpose, here is a picture of Kael (the big SOOK) "helping" me plant my new Narcissus order last year - by sitting on the bulbs! He is a big boy - he weighs about 15 pounds and measures almost 3 feet long from nose to tail tip, but he is a complete coward - terrified of small children, all other cats, wind, dogs, rustling plastic bags etc etc.
Ciao, KK
Kael is BEAUTIFUL! Tell him he's not alone with his neurosis! My Lucy is quite neurotic as well! I brought home a rolling wire shelf (my new plant unit!) this weekend and it totally sent her over the edge until it was finally moved out to the porch!
Kelly
Tall_Shadow
Apr 27, 2009
Well, concrete kitty is awfully cute. Only seeing a photo it looked
like a little weasel. You all do have quite a different fauna in your
little corner of the earth than ours afterall.
But your Kael is like kittys everywhere - lovable!
Just a small contribution from a sunny Sweden... Hoya pottsii.
/Christina
Christina,
I like the velvety look of these blooms. Do you know which H. pottsii this one is?
Joni
I have an H. pottsii that has put on 4 new peduncles -but no new leaves or stems, just peduncles...
Anyone ever experienced this ?
Tall_Shadow
Apr 28, 2009
Paula, I have a shepherdii that is putting peduncles at every
joint that I thought would be leaves - plus I found peduncles
all over an underground stem.
No leaves though.
No complaint from me. I am happy to have the peduncles and
the leaves will come.
Joni,
I think it's the pottsii that I got as Hoya ridleyi. In Sweden there is a hoya in circulation with that name that really is a pottsii. However, in the US I know there is also a Hoya ridleyi, but that one is (if my memory doesn't fail me) determined to be a verticillata...
/Christina
.............and the band played on.....
My H. obscura has put on the largest umbel I've ever seen - I counted 80+ buds on this one !
Wow!!
Paula-
That is AMAZING! Good growing!
Kelly
This carnosa is blooming again. I don't know which one it is, but the leaves look like apubicalyx leaves.
This is the first bloom on lobbii. Not too many flowers, but sure is pretty.
pubicalyx 'Pink Silver' is loaded with blooms.
This one is a dischidiopsis. I don't know which one, but it's cute little flowers are red. Idon't know if they open or not. There are three peduncles on the plant and they have been like this for a few months.
Looks like Dischidiopsis parasitica....one of my favorites cause it is SO happy!!!