…At Plants are the Strangest People.

Mr. Subjunctive has gone overboard this time, with the little paper party hats… on the cacti….

Even the Leuchtenbergia!

It snowed in Albuquerque, according to Good To Grow. Liza included photographic evidence of the snow on an Opuntia and it is pretty good evidence, indeed.

Plants are the Strangest People has been cross pollinating various cross-pollinated plants. Photos are pre-cross-pollination.

Piecemeal Quilts has a christmas-cactus-quilt, piecemeal style.

Indiana Public Media can’t splurge for a photo of a christmas cactus that is in focus. It is red, though.

Lucky Dog’s 2-year-old pink christmas cactus has gone bonkers with blooms this year.

Photographic evidence from KB Design that there are mature succulents throughout the Big Sur area.

Aloes, Agaves, Aeoniums and More!

Garden Adventures has a photo of the inner working parts of a Cereus peruvianus flower. Hard to tell what it comes from in the photo, so we’ll just have to trust the ID.

365 Days has finally found succulents, and it only took 11 months of the year. At least the clump of Echeveria is in full bloom.

Did you know that Echeveria elegans is from Mexico? All Echeverias are from Mexico, or maybe a little further south.

Bettyl at Soaring through the World in Pictures has a very vibrant pink Oreocereus flower photo.

Danger Garden has spotted a carwash with some tortured shrubbery in the shape of Saguaros, also known as “Arborvitae Saguaro” – quite the fancy name for such as that. Impressive!

Boooooom‘s friends named his cactus “Pinchy”.

I thought you would like to know that.

Pam’s Digging has discovered a fantastic truck/cactus combo in Austin. You have to click through. I’ll be on the lookout now for my own truck to plant up.

All Andrew’s Plants has some Echeveria and Aloe blooms that are full and colorful and were almost ready to open this past weekend. Maybe they’re already open!

Sprout Home Chicago puts them in dancing pots.

I assume that refers to the rounded bottoms. I wonder how well they drain?

More photos at Sprout Home.

1. PATSP was lucky enough to snap a photo of his cacti caught in an amorous position. In Iowa!
2. Far Out Flora has ants. And pitcher plants. Now there’s a combo!
3. This link is for Keith: Good to Grow has a hot air balloon. Or at least photos of one taking off from a New Mexico parking lot.
4. Danger Garden found a place on Etsy where you can buy a 2″ cactus for the low low price of only $12 each! Now that’s a deal. Plus, they tell you that it will absorb radiation from your computer screen. Excellent!
5. Jardinagens has an adorable little Huernia flower. The beetles must be so excited!
6. That’s just not right.
7. A Photographer’s Garden Blog has had problems with his squash, so a lineup of the guilty parties ensued.
8. And finally, Whippet Snippets has found that an adorable hiking whippet has hit the big time. Unfortunately it’s in a dreadful and mean cracker commercial.

Frederik from Ystad, Sweden has a lovely Aloe photo for you to go visit. Maybe someone can help him out with a species name?

A+C: Succulents wants to know if Aeonium “Schwartzkopf” will grow in her neighborhood in Utah. One commenter has suggested they’re annuals there.

A photo shows them interspersed with blue fescues, possibly growing in Utah, but hard to know for sure.

Cactus bling

It’s a photo. Of a cactus.

With bling!

A blogger on Psychology Today has a very personal relationship with her cactus. Here’s a snippet.

The one live plant in my office is a cactus… we have developed a relationship…

Despite my desertion, it lived…

At a weak moment, I felt guilty…

Not that I’m bitter…

It has the power to inflict pain….

Here’s the rest of it.

I was wondering what the most popular CactusBlog entry is. So I looked it up and it’s this one from 2008.

What’s sad about this is that isn’t even my photo. But apparently google loves it, so what can I do?

It’s Plants are the Strangest People and fun with Photoshop.

A Growing Obsession uses broken pieces of glass as a succulent mulch, and calls it “Succulents on Ice“. Better than petunias on ice any day.

It’s a cactus flower photo gallery! Add your cactus flower photos too!

I’m updating the blog to the latest version of WordPress, due to some security flaws in the last version, and we just had our first glitch – the blog was down for half an hour. But we’re back! Hopefully, the rest of this update will be smoooooth sailing all the way.

Jacque at The Creative Gardener is somewhere in Northern California and has a greenhouse full of succulents, and some blooming cacti too.

Earth’s Little Gems may not post a whole lot, but they do have up some adorable gasteria bloom photos right now.

Danger Garden picked up some Aloe Yucca hybrid that may be called Yucca aloifolia or Aloe Yucca.

To the google! And… Yucca aloifolia it is, also known as Spanish Bayonet, and it’s not a hybrid at all.

Here’s a photo of an impressive clump via Floridata.

Kelly’s Imaginary Garden appears to be a new blog in the East Bay, and they have a neighbor with giant Echinocereus grandiflora blooms, not to mention the Aloe striatas going crazy too.

Impressive.

The Alaska Squirrel Cam blog has a cactus bloom photo. Anyone have any guesses as to which opuntia species it is that is surviving in Alaska?

Teri found a nest in the middle of a very spiny cactus. Photos ensued.