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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 12, 2020 14:45:27 GMT
Yes, it does. The "fancy" Adenium I got recently, the one with the narrow green leaves & the striped double flowers, did lose some leaves when I transplanted it. I knew it wasn't a great idea because it was still making flower buds, but I had doubts about whatever the nursery soil was, since the plant was always thirsty.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 15, 2020 17:08:45 GMT
Mine lose all their leaves in winter. This is Pelargonium oblongatum. Probably showed it last year.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2020 18:58:46 GMT
Mine lose all their leaves in winter. That's because you have winter where you are. You can show those succulent Pelargoniums as many times as you wish! ❤️
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 16, 2020 15:39:40 GMT
Cactus wall
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 16, 2020 17:09:13 GMT
That'll keep the livestock out! (organ cactus are planted tightly together for that purpose around here) But seriously, lovely plants and lots of them are in bloom.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 16, 2020 17:41:32 GMT
Actually it’s an old peoples home on the other side!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 17, 2020 21:28:50 GMT
See that you stay where you are! Isn't this exciting? I can almost see the flower stalk growing as I watch. I've been feeling guilty about this plant, as I knew I should repot it & give the baby a pot of its own. But the leaves are so pretty and it's so hard not to bang them up when tipping it out of the pot that I just kept putting it off. Now I'm glad I did ~ A few years ago a friend smuggled a tiny piece of this home from California in her luggage. Now she & I & everyone we've shared it with have it all over the place. It seems to have two names: either Kleinia petraea or Senecio jacobsenii. I would have guessed Senecio because of the flowers, but I'm hardly up on taxonomy or all the name changes on plants.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 20, 2020 15:34:00 GMT
Senecio and Kleinia seem to have interchanged again.
The Agave should be spectacular!
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 20, 2020 15:35:35 GMT
Pelargonium pulverulentum
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2020 16:16:21 GMT
That's a darling!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2020 16:51:36 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 23, 2020 9:25:55 GMT
Another Agave just discovered in Mexico is Agave muxii.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 23, 2020 9:26:56 GMT
Yes you can see potatorum in your Agave.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 23, 2020 13:43:28 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2020 16:52:16 GMT
Wow ~ your cactus fence has turned into a chorus line of can-can dancers! I looked up A.muxii & it's frustratingly hard to find a good picture of it. In the first picture here, it's the tall dark inflorescence in front of the man. But expand the photo & look at the Agave in the bottom left corner. Is that a beauty, or what?! Any idea of what it is? The flower stalk on my Agave is now up to the middle of the bridge of my nose.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 23, 2020 19:24:19 GMT
Wow ~ your cactus fence has turned into a chorus line of can-can dancers! I looked up A.muxii & it's frustratingly hard to find a good picture of it. In the first picture here, it's the tall dark inflorescence in front of the man. But expand the photo & look at the Agave in the bottom left corner. Is that a beauty, or what?! Any idea of what it is? The flower stalk on my Agave is now up to the middle of the bridge of my nose. There are some good pictures on Agaveville . The flower is amazing. You’ve let your flower go up your nose?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2020 19:39:31 GMT
Thanks! I'll check it out.
And yes. I just stand out there day & night letting it go up my nose into my brain.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 24, 2020 12:38:16 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2020 14:10:01 GMT
Well, I think that's just the nicest thing I'll see all day. Perfectly lovely, Mick!
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 24, 2020 14:51:51 GMT
It's the wedding bouquet plant which looks particularly lovely this year.
Btw, whenever I open this thread and see the first post from hwinpp I really covet that pot...
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2020 15:04:13 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2020 15:10:09 GMT
Not a cactus but a Drosera which lives with them. It hoovers up all the small flies.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2020 15:41:21 GMT
That blooming cactus is gorgeous. Name?
Drosera!!! Never heard of that. It's very cool. I love the look of its greedy droplet thingies.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2020 15:47:44 GMT
Strombocactus disciformis.
I’ve had the Drosera for years. You never need to repot it, just stand it in rainwater all the time. It catches the little flies that can decimate seedlings but it can catch as big as a butterfly. We once had a fly infestation in the kitchen and it sorted them out in no time. How green was that?
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Post by Kimby on May 5, 2020 16:30:05 GMT
Not a cactus but a Drosera which lives with them. It hoovers up all the small flies. “Hoovers” is not the word I’d have chosen. As it ensnares its victims (then dissolves them), I’d use a “Tarbaby” metaphor instead.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2020 17:10:43 GMT
Strombocactus disciformis. I’ve had the Drosera for years. You never need to repot it, just stand it in rainwater all the time. It catches the little flies that can decimate seedlings but it can catch as big as a butterfly. We once had a fly infestation in the kitchen and it sorted them out in no time. How green was that? Thanks, Mick. I looked up Drosera and saw that it's a sundew, so I guess I had heard of them, but by a different name. Never saw the kind you have, though. I need one, as I'm always fighting fruit flies.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2020 17:39:15 GMT
Not a cactus but a Drosera which lives with them. It hoovers up all the small flies. “Hoovers” is not the word I’d have chosen. As it ensnares it’s victims (then dissolved them), I’d use a Tarbaby metaphor instead. Obviously I didn’t actually mean hoover... What’s tarbaby?
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2020 17:41:56 GMT
Strombocactus disciformis. I’ve had the Drosera for years. You never need to repot it, just stand it in rainwater all the time. It catches the little flies that can decimate seedlings but it can catch as big as a butterfly. We once had a fly infestation in the kitchen and it sorted them out in no time. How green was that? Thanks, Mick. I looked up Drosera and saw that it's a sundew, so I guess I had heard of them, but by a different name. Never saw the kind you have, though. I need one, as I'm always fighting fruit flies. It’s perfect for doing that job. But it must be rainwater.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2020 18:41:32 GMT
I have a large hoard of rainwater.
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Post by patricklondon on May 6, 2020 5:11:50 GMT
“Hoovers” is not the word I’d have chosen. As it ensnares it’s victims (then dissolved them), I’d use a Tarbaby metaphor instead. Obviously I didn’t actually mean hoover... What’s tarbaby? Something you get more stuck to, the more you try to get it off, see: Uncle Remus.
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