Cereus -- plethora of flowers

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Re: Cereus -- plethora of flowers

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Maria J wrote:

> Absolutely magnificent! Did you have any interesting night time
> visitors?

I didn't see one moth or bat when I took the 10:30 pm pictures, Maria, but there were hundreds of small bees pollinating the flowers at dawn this morning -- you can see some in the morning photos.
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Another early morning photo -- you can see the bees buzzing around the flowers:

[img]http://jp29.org/cereus12.JPG[/img]
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I like that shot! It's great! I'm surprised that there weren't moths around the night before, perhaps they found it later in the night.

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Tending more towards cacti :D, particularly Gymnocalyciums, Rebutias, Sulcorebutias, Echinopses, Thelos, Feros and Mamms (and anything else I like the look of!) all in an 8 x 6 polycarb greenhouse and a few windowsills!
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The flowers look great and you must have a great looking garden with cacti planted out only wish we could do the same here

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