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

[Pauli]

Hello,

here a few shots from my collection of hardy cacti. I grow them in an unheated glasshouse. Teperatures regulary fall to -15C, last winter even -17C. During sunny days in frosty periods temperatures can reach 10C while outside it is -10C.

Overview of my collection (mostly Echinocerei)
Gymno. neuhuberi which is beautifully colored (at least for a Gymno) and fully hardy under glass
Austroc. bertinii
Echinocereus coccineus nigrihorridispinus

[hochu]

Amazing color of the corolla in austrocactus! I have coffee color they are.

[WimB]

These cacti grow here in a trough, unprotected in summer and winter, in pure sand...they survived a frost of -18°C this year without any problem!

Echinocereus triglochidiatus (in bud)
Echinocereus viridiflorus
and Escobaria missouriensis var. asperispina

[cohan]

 Pauli- nice collection! I don't know that Gymnocalycium- very hardy sp!

Wim- nice ones, love the colours of Echinocerus viridiflorus and Escobaria missouriensis

[WimB]

Thanks Cohan,

Echinocereus triglochidiatus was flowering here this week, together with Echinocereus baileyi subsp. alibispinus!

[krisderaeymaeker]

Very nice plants Wim and Herbert ! The Austrocactus is a real gem and it is not common in cultivation !

Here just a small selection of flowering plants.....

To start with the dwarf and beautiful Mammillaria luethyi , maybe the best Mammillaria ever .
Further good old Notocactus scopa .
Some small Rebutia species
And Echinocereus triglochidiatus subsp. inermis

[ruweiss]

In the wall of a Ligurian Villa in Imperia I found to my amazement
this Aloe arborescens growing out of a crevice with many aerial roots.

[Maggi Young]

In the wall of a Ligurian Villa in Imperia I found to my amazement
this Aloe arborescens growing out of a crevice with many aerial roots.

spectacular! 

[Leon]

Last year I built a raised bed for cacti and succulents  I planted a few of my supposedly hardy cacti in the bed, they survived the winter and bloomed this year.   Maybe I should have given more thought in the design of the raised bed.  It ended up looking like a giant casket.



Echinocererus triglochidiatus concanthus 



Echinocereus fendleri

[krisderaeymaeker]

Ophthalmophyllum praesectum in flower. Have 3 plants and they al flower for the moment .It is a relative of the better known Lithops .
Some botanist say it is Conophytum praesectum but I think there is anough difference between this two genera ....
It is a bit tricky and don't like to much water ....

[Leon]

Kris,

You seem to have good luck with that class of succulents.  I have tried Lithops and a Lithops/Dinterops cross from seed.  I generally get good germination and  I water very little but it is probably still too much. I have never raised a bloom size plant.  Congrats.

[Leon]

I only grow a few succulents in my outside cactus bed.  One is Kalanchoe Beharensis which I have to dig and bring inside.  I recently dug the plant however it has not yet made it into the house.  The other is a Yucca.  This is the cultivar 'Kaleidoscope'.  It has some rather unusual coloration



Yucca Kaleidoscope



Kalanchoe Beharensis

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris,
You seem to have good luck with that class of succulents.  I have tried Lithops and a Lithops/Dinterops cross from seed.  I generally get good germination and  I water very little but it is probably still too much. I have never raised a bloom size plant.  Congrats.

Thanks Leon . They need as much sun as possible and a long dry period.Here they get no water at al from october until the end of may. In this period (wintertime) I kept them cool and frostfree. From may until september they get only 4 or max. 5 times water.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Lithops season 2012   ...and the Cono's to ...(pics 4&5) 

[Leon]

Kris,
The Conophytum is magnificent.  I am really not familiar with that plant, I assume the cultivation is about the same as Lithops?

Leon