Hi all,
I'm really sorry I've not posted anything after my competition win in July.
Given it's already half way through the month I thought I'd set an easy brief - a photo of your favourite plant. It could be your all time favourite single plant, it could be your current favourite, it could be a photo of your plants from your favourite genus, it could be a bedraggled old thing that has sentimental value, it could be a plant given to you by your favourite person, it could be a photo of a plant in your favourite place. I'll leave it up to you to decide how you want to interpret the brief.
Enjoy!
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August 2024 - Your favourite
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ianstrutt
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August 2024 - Your favourite
Growing in Nottingham for the past 4 years and recently found my way to a Nottingham branch meeting. A few plants on a windowsill has very quickly turned into a greenhouse full!
Attempting to grow a range of turbinicarpus, coryphantha, escobaria and several other cactus genera. Tylecodons, pelargoniums and conophytums keep me occupied in the winter and an ever expanding number of gasteria live under the bench.
Attempting to grow a range of turbinicarpus, coryphantha, escobaria and several other cactus genera. Tylecodons, pelargoniums and conophytums keep me occupied in the winter and an ever expanding number of gasteria live under the bench.
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Re: August 2024 - Your favourite
This is really hard as I have so many favorites and they change daily.
So I have gone for one of my favorite photographs of a pretty variegated Echeveria hybrid.
Echeveria 'Butterfly Dot Variegata'
So I have gone for one of my favorite photographs of a pretty variegated Echeveria hybrid.
Echeveria 'Butterfly Dot Variegata'
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All things Echeveria, Graptopetalum, Pachyphytum and Interspecific hybrids
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Re: August 2024 - Your favourite
Too many favourites ... but I'll start with one from a while back
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Endeavouring to grow Aylostera, Echinocereus, Echinopsis, Gymnocalycium, Matucana, Rebutia, and Sulcorebutia. Fallen out of love with Lithops and aggravated by Aeoniums.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs. Recently discovered gorgeous Gasteria.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs. Recently discovered gorgeous Gasteria.
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Re: August 2024 - Your favourite
And my very first ever favourite
Endeavouring to grow Aylostera, Echinocereus, Echinopsis, Gymnocalycium, Matucana, Rebutia, and Sulcorebutia. Fallen out of love with Lithops and aggravated by Aeoniums.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs. Recently discovered gorgeous Gasteria.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs. Recently discovered gorgeous Gasteria.
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Re: August 2024 - Your favourite
Too many decisions, every new flower is a favourite especially this year where good Scottish sunny days have been in short supply.
So I am posting a picture from 2nd June where the promise of good summer growth and flowers is there.
So I am posting a picture from 2nd June where the promise of good summer growth and flowers is there.
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Re: August 2024 - Your favourite
So here's my entry for the 2nd best favourite - from my point of view there can't be anything better than el48tel's Epicactus ... What a gorgeous, fantastic, brilliant, perfect, stunning ... photograph!!!
The plant I'm showing here has a name so long that it hardly does fit on any label: Echinocereus triglochidiatus f. inermis 'Panayoti'. This name suggests that it is a selected cultivar of the forma. However, I'm pretty sure it is actually of hybrid origin as the flower is so clearly different from Ec. triglochidiatus (a. o. no orange hue and a wider opening). What makes it really special and one of my personal favourites is the purple, metallic sheen of the flower. I know of no other cactus flower that offers anything similar.
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The plant I'm showing here has a name so long that it hardly does fit on any label: Echinocereus triglochidiatus f. inermis 'Panayoti'. This name suggests that it is a selected cultivar of the forma. However, I'm pretty sure it is actually of hybrid origin as the flower is so clearly different from Ec. triglochidiatus (a. o. no orange hue and a wider opening). What makes it really special and one of my personal favourites is the purple, metallic sheen of the flower. I know of no other cactus flower that offers anything similar.
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Re: August 2024 - Your favourite
Found some WiFi!
My favourite home-grown hybrid so far. Formally TG3-01 but may be called 'Raspberry Crush' if it warrants a name in a few more years of growing.
My favourite Echinopsis hybrid altogether is currently 'Maria Piazza' for its huge (15.5cm across this year), well proportioned flowers.
My favourite home-grown hybrid so far. Formally TG3-01 but may be called 'Raspberry Crush' if it warrants a name in a few more years of growing.
- TG3-01
- Maria Piazza
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Re: August 2024 - Your favourite
There will be more I am certain, but at the moment the favourites are these two flowering Conophytums. I struggle to keep them alive and growing in my study room (or is it an office room nowadays?), not to mention flowering, and it's their 2nd year under my roof.
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Re: August 2024 - Your favourite
I know this is a bit left field but what the heck.
In Australia, I had an Echinocereus pentalophusin an outside bed:
I also had a monstrose form, with incredibly tiny, but perfectly formed flowers.
Fof
In Australia, I had an Echinocereus pentalophusin an outside bed: