visit to ZSS yesterday

[Marlon Machado]

Just to brighten up the Sunday (I am getting snow here in Zurich too!), I am posting a few pics I took yesterday at the Zürich Sukkulenten-Sammlung (ZSS: Collection of Succulent Plants of the City of Zurich).

First, some overall pics of the greenhouses:

[attachment 9555 01_P3300008.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

Huge monstrose Cereus in the background:

[attachment 9556 02_P3300012.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

One of the greenhouses whose main bed is planted with dozens of columnar cacti:

[attachment 9557 03_P3300112.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

Main bed of the African plants' greenhouse:

[attachment 9558 04_P3300020.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

A few pots of Echeveria in flower:

[attachment 9559 05_P3300013.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

Well, I also have access to the greenhouses not open to the public Here is a picture of the greenhouse housing part of the Euphorbia collection:

[attachment 9560 06_1_P3300166.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

Another of the private greenhouses:

[attachment 9561 06_2_P3300167.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

A small, beautiful Euphorbia gymnocalycioides:

[attachment 9562 07_P3300172.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

A bigger plant of Euphorbia gymnocalycioides:

[attachment 9563 08_P3300173.JPG]

[Marlon Machado]

A double-headed mandala, Euphorbia turbiniformis:

[attachment 9564 09_P3300171.JPG]