Chris - I absolutely adore bromeliads and have quite a few. What ones are you growing? I am on the lookout for some dyckias and hechtias - I just this year bought H. glomerata which I would take a guess as being the one in your first picture.
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- Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:48 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Bromeliads
- Replies: 46
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- Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Hello from new member
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Absolutely gorgeous photos
That Opuntia basilaris pic reminded me of my old grandmother, for some reason.
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- Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:57 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: What's happening to my Agaves?
- Replies: 26
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Re: What's happening to my Agaves?
Interesting thought, that a sudden change in growing conditions might instigate flowering prematurely in some of the agavaceae. It didn't happen with my A. p. xalapensis, which had been growing relatively happily for about 4 years before it started to do it's thing, but I have had another agave flow...
- Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:02 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: What's happening to my Agaves?
- Replies: 26
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Re: What's happening to my Agaves?
Tina - well, mine did take that long but, as it is the only Agave polyacantha var xalapensis I have had flower, I couldn't say that it would take that long each time.... ;^) But it did EVERYTHING that Vic's plant is doing now. Growth rate slowed, new leaves started becoming distorted, pups grew from...
- Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: What's happening to my Agaves?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5039
Not a virus...
... but it is preparing to flower. Mine did this exact same thing. Congratulations! Expect flowers in 2008!
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: cold hardy Echeveria
- Replies: 4
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Re: cold hardy Echeveria
I've grown agavoides outside for several years - I am about 20 miles east of you. Maybe a touch drier. But if they are in perfectly drained soil they should be fine. Some wet years they have complained a bit, and one clone went cristate, but generally they seem ok. They do vary, it seems, from varie...
- Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:16 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Yuccas
- Replies: 42
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And another
this time an unknown monster yucca that doesn't conform to any described species that I've read about. As big as carnerosana but with a pendulous inflorescence.
- Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:15 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Yuccas
- Replies: 42
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Another Mexican yucca
Since we are gettng the slides out!....The rare and beautiful Yucca queretaroensis, shown here is a previously unknown location near to Zimapan.
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:42 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Minack C & S Garden
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6761
Re: Minack C & S Garden
It is truely inspirational stuff - really at the cutting edge of succulent planting in this copuntry. The planting there has been done by a guy named Neil Milligan, who lives in/runs a nursery called Tressider Farm not too far from the site. He is in the Plantfinder, I believe, and has most of the p...
- Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:55 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Winter time...?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9364
Re: Winter time...?
Yes, open to the elements. With a rain shelter you can probably quadruple the number of plants that I am successful with here, but the topography, or even the scale, doesn't easily lend itself to such here. This is where the low rainfall certainly helps.