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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2009 3:53:14 GMT
Because of the ENORMOUS success of the photos above, and the endless clamoring for more, I'm sharing a picture of this little darling that was blooming this morning. Those of you who have pored over the previous pics will recognize the pot from 2 months ago, and will marvel at how it's grown and thrived.
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Post by welle on Jun 9, 2009 7:04:50 GMT
Beautiful!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2009 16:23:54 GMT
Awww ~~ you're sweet, even if you are humoring me. ......I live in a foggy part of the city [San Francisco] which makes it more difficult, but a guy a few streets down has gorgeous roses. I have not put a lot of research into what kind of rose I grow here, I know some varieties are better. I bought them when the local botanical garden had a sale and just assumed they would do ok. Part of it is that I refuse to put any pesticides on them as they are planted next to my tomatoes and rosemary. With the damp climate they tend to get fungus. Watering them more consistently might also help. We'll see this spring! Well, Welle ~~ it's Spring. How does your garden grow? I know you're really busy, plus had that big trip earlier this year, but it sounds as though your garden was fairly established. Details, please! And Gringalais ~~ the young plants you showed earlier must be really developing now. Feel like giving an update?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2009 15:43:51 GMT
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Post by gertie on Jul 7, 2010 14:25:35 GMT
Curious are any of those edible? I had some dishes with various sorts of cacti in them recently and they were just so tasty and succulent, now whenever I see a cactus I wonder. ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2010 16:22:14 GMT
Gertie, I had some round cactus where I used to live that had tiny red fruits on them, similar to the ones in the next-to-the-last pic above. Some old guys were passing by and told me those fruits were eaten in their region. The flat-padded cactus in the last picture is a type of opuntia, and one of its relatives was undoubtedly included in a dish you tasted. Any market anywhere in Mexico will have ladies cleaning mounds of cactus pads and vendors circulating selling them. Not my photo, although it was taken in the state of Oaxaca. The picture was taken by John Todd, who has such a nice, happy, off-the-beaten-path site about Mexico: www.johntoddjr.com/Cactus fruit of all kind is eaten, from the dragon fruit, which can be big as a rutabaga, to the much smaller tuna fruit, whose sweet interior is squeezed into horchata (rice/almond drink) turning the milk-white beverage hot pink. The flower buds of the Queen of the Night cactus are also eaten as a vegetable! dragon fruit horchata con tuna queen of the night
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Post by tod2 on Oct 24, 2010 15:50:42 GMT
Bixa - I took a look at this thread to see what other folks were growing and I want to ask you or Mick or anyone, about that last pic - Queen of The Night. My aunt grew this very gangly succulent? in her garden and one evening we kids were hauled out of bed to come and see the flower. I can't remember if it only lasted that night or opened every night for sometime. Anyway, she gave me a piece when we got our first home and it too grew one and only one, flower! I have photos somewhere but of course they're the printed ones so I can't show you Now, I noticed a very similar plant under a table in Mickthecactus's photo on succulents & cacti. Is this the same plant - Queen of the Night?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2010 4:38:09 GMT
I love the idea of getting children out of bed to see a beautiful flower. Maybe the world isn't as fucked up as it sometimes appears to be.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 25, 2010 7:49:47 GMT
It was a special moment Kerouac - I remember my uncle holding the torch and shining it up and down the cactus(not succulent), and my sister and I yelling "there's another one!' as the torchlight found another magnificent bloom. The cactus , (Bixa's referal) had been growing for years and was entwined in the branches of a tree. My aunt & uncle had spotted the buds forming and kept a nightly vigil waiting for the flowers to open - just like expectant parents I think I was just as excited when mine gave me that one little flower!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 25, 2010 14:11:36 GMT
Bixa - I took a look at this thread to see what other folks were growing and I want to ask you or Mick or anyone, about that last pic - Queen of The Night. My aunt grew this very gangly succulent? in her garden and one evening we kids were hauled out of bed to come and see the flower. I can't remember if it only lasted that night or opened every night for sometime. Anyway, she gave me a piece when we got our first home and it too grew one and only one, flower! I have photos somewhere but of course they're the printed ones so I can't show you Now, I noticed a very similar plant under a table in Mickthecactus's photo on succulents & cacti. Is this the same plant - Queen of the Night? Tod, I've answered this in the cactus & succulent thread -- hope that's okay. anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=gardening&thread=2180&page=4 Reply #104
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 29, 2010 19:34:25 GMT
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Post by myrt on Oct 30, 2010 15:13:42 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Oct 30, 2010 17:40:08 GMT
Cheery & Myrt - What phenomenal photos!!! Glorious just glorious - thank you so much!
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Post by myrt on Oct 30, 2010 19:57:42 GMT
Why, thanks for that! But Cheery's photos are always beautiful - I know them of old. Her garden is a little gem!
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 1, 2010 3:23:35 GMT
Oh my goodness! I haven't had time to really look at everything, and now I'm inundated with beauty!
Cheery and Myrt, not only do both of you take wonderful photos, you make others really SEE what you see. And seeing like that reveals the wonder of even the most taken-for-granted garden flowers.
Cheery, I could never pick a favorite out of that group, although I have to comment on the wonderful combinations in the first one, the darling bee, and that riot of perfect pink astrantia.
And when it comes to pink, your poppies pulled out all the stops, Myrt! Poppies are one of my favorite flowers. I enjoyed the sequence so much, and am knocked out by the inked lines in the last one. Wow.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 3, 2010 13:34:08 GMT
A couple of my Oxalis just coming into flower -
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2010 14:57:24 GMT
Mick, where I'm from and where I live now, the regular Oxalis is a terrible weed. I have seen one ornamental Oxalis for sale here, which was a fancier version of the weed one. I had no idea there was so much variety in color and form.
I'll be interested to hear if the pretty little cultivars escape from cultivation and run rampant at your place.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 3, 2010 15:06:49 GMT
Oxalis can be a real problem here too. I came across one 20 years ago at another house and it has followed me through 2 houses since with little chancve of eradicating it.
The yellow one, O. megalorhiza is from South America and can turn up in other pots but it certainly doesn't run riot. I forgive it because it will grow a big root in time and I can bonsai it.
The pink is O. hirta which doesn't multiply and I also have O. peduncularis and O. versicolor in bud waiting to open (both have beautiful flowers) neither of which escape either.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 5, 2010 15:01:07 GMT
Thanks for showing us that a 'weed' can also win a beauty pagent ;D Would you call these particular ones hybrids?
Myrt - what a fab sequence of that beautiful poppy!
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 5, 2010 15:07:58 GMT
Thanks for showing us that a 'weed' can also win a beauty pagent ;D Would you call these particular ones hybrids? Myrt - what a fab sequence of that beautiful poppy! No, they aren't hybrids at all. They are species tod2.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2010 6:18:09 GMT
Really great photos by everyone. I don't get to this thread as often as I should since I can't participate!
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