<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1848&amp;entry_id=1666" title="http://madeinmississippi.blogspot.com/2008/02/savoring-spanish-succulent.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://madeinmississippi.blogspot.com/2008/02/savoring-spanish-succulent.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Made in Mississippi</a> visits the cacti of Spain and falls in love. Pictures and printmaking follow.<br /><br /><br />

Nice succulent garden photos by <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1844&amp;entry_id=1662" title="http://www.epiforums.com/showpost.php?p=22055&postcount=1" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.epiforums.com/showpost.php?p=22055&postcount=1′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">jjk on the EpiForums</a>. Seems to be from a community college in Honolulu. Nice Pachypodium specimens, Alluaudias, and blooming Agave attenuatas plus much more.<br /><br /><br />

The latest picture from the <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1842&amp;entry_id=1660" title="http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/learning_to_read_the_la_landscape/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/learning_to_read_the_la_landscape/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Human Flower Project</a> features the Huntington Gardens.<br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br /><img width="400" hspace="5" border="2" src="/blog/uploads/misc/jill-la-jack450.jpg" /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Jack Nokes, el mero chofer, relaxes in the cacti and succulent gardens at the Huntington<br />
Photo: Jill Nokes<br /><br /></span></div>

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1820&amp;entry_id=1642" title="http://christieatthecape.blogspot.com/2008/01/shipwrecks-and-carrion-flowers.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://christieatthecape.blogspot.com/2008/01/shipwrecks-and-carrion-flowers.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Christie at the Cape</a> moved to South Africa and now has a growing succulent collection, including a lovely little Stapelia grandiflora about to bloom, with pictures.<br /><br /><br />

It’s a big day for the nursery getting noticed (<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1815&amp;entry_id=1635" title="/archives/1632-Cactus-Jungle-in-the-News.html" onmouseover="window.status=’/archives/1632-Cactus-Jungle-in-the-News.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">see below</a>). Today’s link of the day is to <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1816&amp;entry_id=1635" title="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/plants-flowers/cactus-jungle-042047" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/plants-flowers/cactus-jungle-042047′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Apartment Therapy</a>, with a review of Cactus Jungle!<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">We’re particularly partial to their fantastic collection of houseplants, but lately we’ve been tempted to try out our new skills on some of the larger cacti.</span><br /></div><br />Well that’s a self-serving quote for me to pull from their review.<br /><br />

A writer and/or photographer, <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1799&amp;entry_id=1607" title="http://itofoto.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/cactus-land-1/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://itofoto.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/cactus-land-1/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">ItoFoto</a>, goes to a writing retreat and finds cactus all over the place. Photos follow. Agave, Aloe and more.<br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1798&amp;entry_id=1606" title="http://elysiummcc.blogspot.com/2008/01/never-sunset-in-tucson.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://elysiummcc.blogspot.com/2008/01/never-sunset-in-tucson.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">A Work in Progress visits Tucson</a> and takes a lot of family portait style pictures of Saguaros. It seems like a reasonable thing to be doing.<br /><br />

An Indian gardening blog, <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1797&amp;entry_id=1605" title="http://sliceoftheday.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/blue-agave-agave-tequilana/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://sliceoftheday.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/blue-agave-agave-tequilana/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Slice of the Day</a>, tells you everything you need to know about Agave and tequila.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Archaeologists say the agave has been cultivated for at least 9,000 years.</span><br /></div><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1795&amp;entry_id=1601" title="http://thegardenersrake.com/indoor-container-gardening-cacti-arrangements" onmouseover="window.status=’http://thegardenersrake.com/indoor-container-gardening-cacti-arrangements’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">The Gardeners Rake</a> has recommendations for choosing cactus, and keeping them alive too.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">When you shop for cacti and succulents chose a variety of textures, colors, sizes and shapes. Make sure they are healthy.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/archives/1601-guid.html#extended">Continue reading "Link of the Day"</a>

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1782&amp;entry_id=1588" title="http://back40feet.blogspot.com/2008/01/bloom-day.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://back40feet.blogspot.com/2008/01/bloom-day.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">My Back 40 (Feet)</a> has lots of good photographic evidence of their bloom skills in the harsh San Francisco winters with a post called Bloom Day.<br /><br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1773&amp;entry_id=1579" title="http://jocelynsgarden.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-resource.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://jocelynsgarden.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-resource.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">The Art Garden</a>, by a Denver area landscaper, features a post about an interactive site that can tell you what <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1774&amp;entry_id=1579" title="http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx" onmouseover="window.status=’http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">your area’s soils</a> are like. And there’s a nice picture of a Begonia rex, too.<br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url=aHR0cDovL3R1cmJpZHdhdGVyLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbS8yMDA4LzAxL3BpY3RvcmlhbC1ndWlkZS10by1kZXNlcnQtdmFjdGlvbi1mb3IuaHRtbA==&amp;entry_id=1563" title="http://turbidwater.blogspot.com/2008/01/pictorial-guide-to-desert-vaction-for.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://turbidwater.blogspot.com/2008/01/pictorial-guide-to-desert-vaction-for.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;"><br />
Turbid Water</a> from Denver took a winter vacation into the desert and has come back with a whole lot of photos of cactus. There’s also a lot of personal pictures mixed in there, so you can pretend you’re not looking at a stranger’s family and skip over those and get to the cactus photos.<br /><br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1755&amp;entry_id=1559" title="http://kipili.com/?p=274" onmouseover="window.status=’http://kipili.com/?p=274′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Kipili</a> went to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney and got a great photo of a Dyckia fosteriana in bloom.<br /><br /><img width="161" hspace="5" height="240" border="0" src="/blog/uploads/misc/1584501369_13c119c44f_m.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1756&amp;entry_id=1559" title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrichor/1584501369/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrichor/1584501369/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Full size photo on flickr.</a><br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1754&amp;entry_id=1558" title="http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/cactus-bandits-v-mexican-villagers/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/cactus-bandits-v-mexican-villagers/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">The Mex Files</a> translates an article about Foreign Cactus Bandits, in Mexico!<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> Residents of the several municipalities in the area interviewed by El UNIVERSAL all complained of the complacency of the Federal Prosescutor for Environmental Protection, when it came to foreigners stealing cacti.<br />
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”They [the foreigners] come and take plants with no authority from anyone. I don’t know if the Federal Prosecutor isn’t interested, or just ignorant,” Dionisio Santos, of Jaumve said.</span><br /></div><br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1743&amp;entry_id=1546" title="http://happiegrrrlclimbing.blogspot.com/2007/12/south-side-of-joshua-tree.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://happiegrrrlclimbing.blogspot.com/2007/12/south-side-of-joshua-tree.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;"> Happiegrrrl Climbing</a> wanders into new parts of Joshua Tree National Park and stumbles upon a Cholla forest. I hope she didn’t actually stumble.<br /><br />Nice photos of national park protected cholla, plus barrel cacti and ocotillo too.<br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1750&amp;entry_id=1553" title="http://www.correntewire.com/obama_stump_speech_strategy_of_conciliation_considered_harmful" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.correntewire.com/obama_stump_speech_strategy_of_conciliation_considered_harmful’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Lambert at Corrente explains it all.</a><br /><br /><br /><br />

As long as we’re on the Peyote beat, here’s a photo of a Lophophora diffusa in it’s native habitat.<br /><br /><img width="432" hspace="5" height="324" border="2" src="/blog/uploads/misc/Lophophoradiffusa1.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1730&amp;entry_id=1533" title="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Lophophoradiffusa1.jpg" onmouseover="window.status=’http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Lophophoradiffusa1.jpg’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Original (larger) photo</a> on wikimedia commons by <a target="_blank" href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1731&amp;entry_id=1533" title="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kauderwelsch" onmouseover="window.status=’http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kauderwelsch’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Kauderwelsch</a>.<br /><a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1732&amp;entry_id=1533" title="http://lophophora.blogspot.com/2007/10/habitat-photos-lophophora-etc.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://lophophora.blogspot.com/2007/10/habitat-photos-lophophora-etc.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Link with more photos</a> via lophophora blog.<br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1706&amp;entry_id=1509" title="http://jardinagens.blogspot.com/2007/12/verde-que-te-quero-verde.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://jardinagens.blogspot.com/2007/12/verde-que-te-quero-verde.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">jardinagens</a> has a lovely little succulent garden that looks newly planted. But I don’t read portuguese, so I can’t be sure.<br /><br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1699&amp;entry_id=1502" title="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/060971.php" onmouseover="window.status=’http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/060971.php’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Giant Gay Flesh-Eating Rats</a><br /><br /><br />