Oregon Cactus Blog has a nice photo of an older Eriocyse senilis in bloom. Red blooms at the crown of the plant, that is.

Sandykidd likes cactus, and had this to say,

I have been called the ‘Prickle Fairy’ for a reason! For my strange love of cactus and also my social resemblance to said prickly succulents.

Greenfish Artist and Gardener has a whole bunch of little cactus from the Austin Spring Fling thingy, plus a picture of an unlabeled Rechsteineria leucotricha in bloom.

Daystar Shine on Me visited the Botanico Jardin Las Palmas Canary Island and took some great shots of some giant cacti in the gardens. How come I never get to go to the Canary Islands?

Mallorca Daily Photo Blog has a lovely photo of a Cleistocactus at the…

Botanicactus near Ses Salines in South East Mallorca is a huge botanical garden.

I’d click through to see the full size photo if I were you.

Holly’s Hystrionics (great blog name!) really lives up to her name in dealing with repotting her agaves.

I free up a large enough hole in the wound-up roots to pass a thin transplanter spade through. Now I can begin the REAL work. I start removing the tired out dirt spadeful by spadeful. I am from the school of thought that figures, once a plant has grown so much it’s root-bound…the soil in that pot is depleted of any nutrients it once held. SO I just threw that dirt on the ground.

I had already prepared the new, larger pot with gravel in the bottom. YES, it has drainage holes. I’m cautious, sue me. I like a thin layer of gravel for ALL my plants.

Read the whole thing, as they say.

A Geologist finds some interest in exploring not just old rocks, but the so-called “living stones” too, i.e. Lithops! Christie at the Cape has photos.

Water When Dry has a recipe for Prickly Pear Vinaigrette.

You’ll need to click through to find the instructions. I wonder if I should try it before I repost it?

Lynn’s Garden has an inspirational photo of her winter greenhouse filled with cactus up to the rafters.

Our Little Acre in Ohio has discovered some early signs of spring poking up. Nice photos of little sprigs. I especially like the picture of the Euphorbia dulcis “Chameleon” with its brightly colored shoots.

Here in the warmer climates we don’t get that kind of spring shoot thrill. I mean, sure we have plants that die back in winter and start shooting in spring, but they’re surrounded in the garden by all our winter green green green.

I love it when someone blogs about the plants they got from our nursery. it makes me feel connected. Pictures always help too….

So Radical Acts found some Lotus crassifolus in our native section and now shares pictures of the plant in full bloom. We’ve sold out for the spring, except for one amazing plant in a mixed hanging basket.

Borrego’s Aloe Blog has some beautiful pictures of large aloes at the UC Irvine Arboretum.

It practically makes you feel like you’re in Africa.

Shed Style wrote a short article for the LA magazine Angeleno which got edited down to one sentence. A long sentence, to be sure. But in the age of blogs, freelance writers now get to publish their own unedited manuscripts, or short articles as the case may be. Here’s my excerpted quote from the short article that was edited down in the magazine. Or you could read the whole thing at the link above.

Our blog of the day is Slice of the Day, where they feature plants. This slice is an Epiphyllum, or orchid cactus. What they call the Dutchman’s Pipe Cactus. I’ve never heard of that common name, but anything is possible in the world of common names.

They’ve also included a flickr photo from yoel_tw.

Water When Dry’s cactus garden is in full wildflower bloom, and she’s got great pictures to prove it.

Steer Forth! has posted a poem, illustrated by one of my photos.

It’s called Happy poem #4

Gardening with Wilson links to an article in the latest edition of Home Concepts that he wrote about gardening in Singapore.

And here’s a photo from the SBG Sun Garden website.

Nice.

Poor Richards Almanac blog takes us on a virtual tour of an obscure Pennsylvania nursery in a town nobody has ever heard of (until today.)

Strangely enough, some other people had previously discovered Ott’s. They posted on gardenweb.

and

That’s enough about Ott’s for today.

Plants are the Strangest People has a nice article (with pictures!) about the lovely and red-stripey Synadenium grantii v. rubra, also known as the African Milk Bush. I’d tell you all about this wonderful plant, but then you wouldn’t bother to click through.

M Sinclair Stevens in Austin, Texas at Zanthan Gardens has a great photo spread of golden barrels used in landscapes. And a story of a $2 barrel with eyes glued on, too.

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1887&amp;entry_id=1716" title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwen/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwen/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Gwen</a> takes some very lovely plant pictures around town. She bought this mammillaria from us.<br /><br /><img width="350" hspace="5" border="2" src="/blog/uploads/misc/2295858500_bfdf131e2c.jpg" /><br /><br />Nice. Since this photo was borrowed without permission, go see the <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1888&amp;entry_id=1716" title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwen/2295858500/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwen/2295858500/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">full-size original on flickr</a>, and enjoy the rest of Gwen’s photos too.<br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1890&amp;entry_id=1721" title="http://borrego.thegardenjournals.org/?p=87" onmouseover="window.status=’http://borrego.thegardenjournals.org/?p=87′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Borrego’s Aloe Blog</a> in Los Angeles caught a neighbor’s Aloe marlothii in bloom. It is a large and impressive plant.<br /><br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1885&amp;entry_id=1714" title="http://cafejoetogo.blogspot.com/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://cafejoetogo.blogspot.com/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Joseph Pobereskin</a> likes to take pictures of urban succulents, which by his definition doesn’t actually include any succulents.<br /><br /><img width="250" hspace="5" border="0" src="/blog/uploads/misc/IMG_1761.jpg" /><br /><br />Photo borrowed without permission, so go see the full size version at <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1886&amp;entry_id=1714" title="http://cafejoetogo.blogspot.com/2008/02/suburban-succulents.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://cafejoetogo.blogspot.com/2008/02/suburban-succulents.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Eat at Joe’s</a> along with his other urban succulents.<br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1883&amp;entry_id=1713" title="http://www.harmelphoto.com" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.harmelphoto.com’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Mark Harmel</a> takes pictures of succulents. Here’s an agave mostly out of focus, but just the right parts just enough in focus.<br /><br /><img width="350" hspace="5" border="2" src="/blog/uploads/misc/20071123_stk_5227.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1884&amp;entry_id=1713" title="http://www.harmelphoto.com/blog/?p=7" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.harmelphoto.com/blog/?p=7′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Photo borrowed</a> without permission, so go see the original and others too.<br /><br />

Beth at Capturing the City, in San Francisco, has an obsession with photographing green plants. In this entry, <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1877&amp;entry_id=1706" title="http://www.capturingthecity.com/2008/02/12/green-green-everywhere/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.capturingthecity.com/2008/02/12/green-green-everywhere/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">green, green everywhere</a>, she features succulents, with some artful cropping and compositions.<br /><br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1873&amp;entry_id=1703" title="http://lifeslittleadventures.typepad.com/lifes_little_adventures/2008/02/ze-france.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://lifeslittleadventures.typepad.com/lifes_little_adventures/2008/02/ze-france.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Life’s Little Adventures</a> travels to the French Riviera and visits Louis XIV’s cactus gardens.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tropical Gardens (Jardin Exotique). Suspended some 1,400 feet above the blue Mediterranean, the garden offers a breathtaking panorama over the tiled rooftops, the sea, and much of the Riviera. Established in 1949 around the ruins of a 14th-century castle that was destroyed in 1706 on orders from Louis XIV, the gardens are filled with many varieties of cacti and succulents, mostly from the Americas.</span><br /></div><br />Alright, so it’s more recent than Louis XIV. I just like to type roman numerals.<br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1866&amp;entry_id=1695" title="http://crumb.cc/toast/2008/02/succulent-family-portrait/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://crumb.cc/toast/2008/02/succulent-family-portrait/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">toast crumb</a> has a Succulent Family Portait. There are 6 little succulents, including cactus, in a nice little grouping. A pleasant portrait of a featured family. <br /><br /><br />

<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1859&amp;entry_id=1680" title="http://fosteroutdoors.blogspot.com/2008/02/nature-no-pork-here.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://fosteroutdoors.blogspot.com/2008/02/nature-no-pork-here.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Jim Foster Outdoors</a> writes about the javelina, a pig-like peccary from Texas. Now, he does talk about hunting them, so you may not actually want to click through. But javelinas and cactus do go together like Martin and Lewis, or Belushi and Ackroyd, or McCain and Bush or another comedy team you can think up for yourself.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The javelina lives in the brushy semi-desert where prickly pear cactus is a conspicuous part of the flora. They are commonly found in dense thickets of prickly pear, chaparral, scrub oak, or guajillo.</span><br /></div><br />