"Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..

[ruweiss]

The unusual long lasting hot and dry weather is a real nightmare for our regional farmers,fruit and vegetable growers;they look forward to an extremely poor harvest.
Steppe plants and Cactii love these conditions and express this by opulent flowering:

Echinocereus coccineus roemeri and reichenbachii albispinus
                   reichenbachii albispinus
                   chloranthus
                   polyacanthus
                   triglochidiatus

[Maggi Young]

The unusual long lasting hot and dry weather is a real nightmare for our regional farmers,fruit and vegetable growers;they look forward to an extremely poor harvest.
Steppe plants and Cactii love these conditions and express this by opulent flowering:

Yes, Rudi, the prediction is for poor crops in many areas..... not good news at all. Your bright and healthy cacti are cheering, though... good to see these jewel colours.

[cohan]

Beautiful cacti Wim and Rudi!
Here there are more farmers who cannot get on some fields because of standing water from snow melt! My area should not be too bad (most fields not so wet, just parts), but we won't talk about parts of Manitoba and elsewherewith serious flooding I guess food prices will go up again!

[Ragged Robin]

I have never had much success with flowering cacti but these are inspiration to keep trying!

[Pauli]

Hello,

here are my hardy cacti, grown in an unheated greenhouse
group
Ec dasyacanthus red form
Pterocactus
Ec fendleri
and Delosperma deilanthoides (thanks Ian!)

[christian pfalz]

hello herbert,
nice forms you grow....i have echinocereus pectinatus red forma in my garden, without rainprotection. it grows very well and flowers every year....i took some photos next....
cheers
chris

[cohan]

I have never had much success with flowering cacti but these are inspiration to keep trying!

Robin, most are not too hard, as long as you choose some that you can give enough light to (needs vary)..then its a matter of enough water and sun in the growing season, and a dry, usually cool, winter rest.. have you been trying indoors or outside?

[cohan]

Hello,

here are my hardy cacti, grown in an unheated greenhouse
group
Ec dasyacanthus red form
Pterocactus
Ec fendleri
and Delosperma deilanthoides (thanks Ian!)

Very nice collection, Herbert! Are many of these grown in group trays?

[Pauli]

Yes, most are grown in "fish -boxes".
This makes watering easier, as I do not live near my garden!

[FrazerHenderson]

Graptopetalum paraguayense growing above a doorway at Vela Luka, island of Korcula, Croatia. Often seen growing as a pot or balcony specimen across the Med. Easy to grow in fact thrives on being left alone.

[FrazerHenderson]

For those interested in succulents the latest issue of the Sedum Society Newsletter [http://www.cactus-mall.com/sedum or http://cactus-mall.com/sedum/habitat/html ] contains an illustrated article, amongst many, on:

Crassulaceae in the Cevannes mountains (by Eric Barbier)

The article also contains some useful web references:

http://sempervivophilia.stalikez.info/
http://sempervivum.legtux.org/
http://atlas.parcsnationaux.org/cevennes/
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[cohan]

Graptopetalum paraguayense growing above a doorway at Vela Luka, island of Korcula, Croatia. Often seen growing as a pot or balcony specimen across the Med. Easy to grow in fact thrives on being left alone.

Interesting, didn't realise Croatia was that warm!

[cohan]

For those interested in succulents the latest issue of the Sedum Society Newsletter [http://www.cactus-mall.com/sedum or http://cactus-mall.com/sedum/habitat/html ] contains an illustrated article, amongst many, on:

Crassulaceae in the Cevannes mountains (by Eric Barbier)

The article also contains some useful web references:

http://sempervivophilia.stalikez.info/
http://sempervivum.legtux.org/
http://atlas.parcsnationaux.org/cevennes/
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I didn't find the article at either link...

[FrazerHenderson]

Cohan

The article is within the magazine. It does however reference the weblinks which provide material additional to the article. Eric Barbier also operates those sites.

Frazer

[Pauli]

Hello,

I want to show you Austrian "wallflowers":
Opuntia phaeacantha
Delosperma lineare