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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2017 22:46:25 GMT
Mmmm. There were no photos in my last post. Hope you don't mean earlier posts!
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 6, 2017 14:36:27 GMT
Random pictures taken yesterday. Apologies if you have seen them before. Aloe polyphylla - Aloe peckii - Aloe cameronii Aloe scorpioides (not often seen) - Gasteria vlokii Gasteria armstrongii -
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2017 5:33:01 GMT
Don't apologize ~ these are beauties! Also, many times I've been able to use your posts to identify plants whose names I didn't know.
I love that group planting in the background of A. cameronii. Is that Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop' with two different Aloes? Very beautiful.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2017 5:43:39 GMT
I keep meaning to show a picture of this huge Agave used rather dangerously as a street planting. Somebody has cut back a few of the leaves overhanging the sidewalk, making it safer for people under 5' tall. Still, it's a magnificent thing ~ Flowers of Senecio jacobsenii ~
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2017 17:10:54 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 28, 2017 13:08:29 GMT
Is that Kalanchoe "Fang"?
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 28, 2017 13:10:33 GMT
Pelargonium echinatum flowering for me the first time:- Aloe variegate (and some washing) -
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 28, 2017 17:07:19 GMT
That's a robust and pretty Pelargonium. I covet the A. variegate, & am on the lookout for one. I know someone who has promised me a piece of A. scorpioides, so am looking around for something to give in return. I laughed when I saw your question about my Kalanchoe, thinking you'd made up that name. But no ~ looking it up I see that it's really and truly called Fang & is K.beharensis X K.tomentosa.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 13, 2017 8:30:32 GMT
Begonia carolineifolia -
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2017 4:26:11 GMT
That is very very nice!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 5:45:53 GMT
Another case of nature looking so perfect that it looks artificial!
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 22, 2017 8:23:35 GMT
Lovely, lovely, lovely!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2017 17:44:10 GMT
Thanks, guys!
I'm particularly pleased by the ones that have suffered abuse. That Hoya was chewed down to the stalks by cutter ants and still has very few leaves, but is even now making more buds. The Stapelia and the Aeonium were both given to me by a friend when he moved. They'd been completely neglected on a hot terrace and the Aeonium had no roots when I got it. You can see that part of the Stapelia is completely white from the neglect, but it has put out nice new growth and its otherworldly flower for me.
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Post by amboseli on Mar 30, 2017 12:35:54 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 3, 2017 7:29:43 GMT
That last one is stunning! Mammillaria longiflora, 3 years old from seed.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 3, 2017 7:31:01 GMT
And a forest of Gasteria flowers -
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Post by breeze on Apr 3, 2017 12:06:27 GMT
Mick, that is perfection. From seed!
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 4, 2017 7:30:20 GMT
Here's the Begonia now in full flower-
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2017 4:01:29 GMT
Wow ~ that's a garden of the gods, Amboseli! The HUGE Aloe in full flower is a super knock-out.
Mick, your plants always look better even than the ones in glossy succulent books! Perfect and cheerful displays, plus the begonia more than lived up to its promise.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 10, 2017 11:34:24 GMT
Mammillaria pennispinosa - Echinocereus viridiflorus-
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 10, 2017 11:43:09 GMT
Aloe jucunda in flower -
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2017 15:02:23 GMT
Your babies are so beautiful and well cared-for, Mick!
What is the Aloe on the right behind the A. jucunda? Also, what's the cactus on the far left on the top shelf in the 2nd picture?
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 11, 2017 7:12:25 GMT
Aloe milloti - Obregonia denegrii -
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 11, 2017 12:18:56 GMT
I'm getting a nice little collection of Agaves together. Here are some of them:- Agave Tradewinds - Agave cernua - Agave Americana v mediopicta alba - Agave salmiana Butterfingers Agave Kissho Kan
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2017 16:20:40 GMT
Tradewinds is too too adorable!
I was very interested to see A. salmiana Butterfingers, as I've seen it repeatedly identified as Americana and have always doubted that ID.
What are you going to do when those things get BIG, as they do?
pee ess ~ thanks for the ID on those other two beauties. Obregonia denegrii is a native of northern Mexico, I think.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2017 7:20:27 GMT
Tradewinds offsets a lot so there are plenty of little breezes available.
A. salmiana Butterfingers isn't in the Agaveville gallery so I am checking that out with people who know far more about Agaves than I do.
I'll cross the bridge about them getting too big when they are! An occasional cull is always necessary. Incidentally A. cernua has a very deep maroon edge to the leaves which doesn't really come out in the picture.
Obregonia comes from Tamaulipas I believe and was named after Alvaro Obregon, a past President of Mexico. I grew it from seed many years ago.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 12, 2017 15:24:01 GMT
Hee hee "little breezes".
I used to live in a house with a very small yard that had cement shelves and a cement bathroom outside. The flat roofs of those two things were handy for the Agaves, allowing them to be admired without risk to eyeballs or clothing. (& the bathroom made a handy garden shed).
A. cernua reminds me somewhat of the lovely A. gypsophila I got from you. A. gypsophila has such a slender, graceful habit of growth once it's mature. It also makes many babies. The one I have in full sun has red teeth. The one exposed to less sun is bluer and its teeth not so vicious nor red.
Tamaulipas is the neighboring state to where I lived on the border in Texas. Many things are named after Obregón up there, pretty much nothing down here.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 13, 2017 17:29:17 GMT
Turns out it should be Agave salmiana marginata.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2017 14:33:09 GMT
Thanks! That's a pretty common Agave around here, and it was strange not to know the name of it.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 18, 2017 7:34:14 GMT
Some more rather nice Agaves - Agave guadalajarana Agave gypsophila "Ivory Curls" Agave titanota -
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