The unseasonably warm weather combined with a smattering of sunshine has combined to allow some of the hybrids in my greenhouse to successfully produce a few end of season flowers in the last 3 weeks or so : The first here is the Hildewintera hybrid 'Hot Lipstick' by Michael Kiessling in Germany - a...

Peter's pics of T. fulvilanus and comments about 'responding well to repotting' have shamed me! This is my T. fulvilanus, bought in a garden centre in 1997 (back in the days when the average garden centre sold "interesting" cacti and succulents). It has endured 10 years in a 7" pot so...

Here are a few of the matucanas I have grown and enjoyed over the years :

Hi Ray, Alan Hart's plant is a large, fairly old specimen. It is a multi-stemmed specimen that he ties into a framework of canes in the pot. If left to it's own devices it does not seem to be naturally decumbent? My own specimen, which is also pretty vertical, bloomed for the first time this year (s...

Bit of an update on the above. The Borzicactus (Cleistocactus) samaipatanus that produced 2 nice flowers a week or two ago has now gathered itself and produced a stunning display of a dozen flowers out together : 2316d_b_samaipatanus (22).jpg Meanwhile Stapelia baylissii (hirsuta v. baylissii per Br...

Personally I think this has been one of the best growing/flowering seasons for several years and it doesnt seem to be slowing down yet. Although my stapeliads are starting to show off I am still getting plenty of nice things from my Echinopsis hybrids. Heres a sample of whats been going on over the ...

Still a very nice plant Diane tho!!!

this one has played the waiting game/toyed with my affections for the last 2 years with buds that get big then abort or stay small and shrivel. However finally today was the day : Stapelia cedrimontana - a cutting from an original Specks plant. Only faintly malodorous close up! 2115d_s_cedrimontana ...

This is my heterochromous, originally from John Henshaw at Croston Cacti. I agree with iann in that it is not as spectacular as good old-fashioned bicolor. That said however it doesnt seem particularly troublesome to grow and flowers several times through the season as a lot of thelos do. This plant...

@ Wiebe,

tnks Wiebe - I can see the sense in describing the Huernia as a new sp. I struggled to see its relationship to H. macrocarpa I must admit!