Portait of a Gnome with X-Large San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi).

And now we see there are cactus wind chimes available from Garden Fun.com

I have questions about this cactus wind chime. But I think I asked enough questions yesterday about the cactus peephole, so maybe I’ll leave this one alone to speak for itself.

OK, well, maybe one question.

WHYYYYY!!!!!??????

Whippets under the covers

I’m not sure what to make of this fascinating object from Amazon. It’s a peephole with a painted cactus surround. I don’t know if the cactus goes on the inside of the door or the outside. I wonder who this is intended for.

I wonder why the peephole is located at that point on the cactus and not another.

I wonder how it’s attached to the door.

I wonder whether anyone who has bought this object bought it for themselves and not as a gag gift.

I wonder if anyone who has received one as a gag gift has installed it on their door.

I wonder if anyone who has installed it on their door has ever peeped through the cactus peephole in their door.

They do say it’s…

• Designed with attention to detail
• Includes mounting instructions

Good to know.

Cactus Plushy Storage Box.

From San-X!

OK, so I feel I should add a comment here. I don’t know why I should add a comment here, but that seems like the thing to do since this is my blog.

But my mind is a blank when I look at this plushy cactus box. I want to figure out what I could store in this cactus plushy box but I cannot think of anything to store in this should I get myself a cactus plushy box from San-X. Maybe you need to be Japanese to fully appreciate this object.

I did it! I commented on the plushy box cactus! Yay!

Grevillea “Pink Pearl”

Anything to add?

From Wind and Weather, but they no longer carry the product even though the page remains.

I have six pictures of the curly parsley without the fast moving butterfly.

Stupid butterfly.

Straight out of Holland.

via Jim at Greenbriar Nurseries in Virginia.

Hap announced:

In which I announce with total sincerity that this will never, ever, ever happen at Cactus Jungle! I am putting it in the employee manual first in the morning!

Some really nice ceramic work from artist Jonathan Cross. The collection is called Cactus and Succulent, and he pots various cactus and succulents in the pots for the pictures.

Gymnocalycium. Won’t know the species until Mr. Cross posts a bloom picture, if he does that kind of thing.

Lithops, also species-less at this time, but even with a flower this would be tough to ID.

These are nice.

We’re now a community notice board!

Does anyone have cuttings of Opuntia polyacantha var. polyacantha they can send to me? Theo, the botanist for the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission asked me if I could provide him cuttings but I don’t have this variety under cultivation here in Little Rock, Arkansas.

— Thanks, — Barry
Little Rock, Arkansas

Contact me if you want to get in touch with Barry.

Mini Terrarium Animals!

We are going really big into terrariums this winter. Lot’s more glass selection. More houseplants. More mosses, and gravels and sands. And more toys too. 22 varieties.

I’m very excited. I suppose I’ll share some of our planted terrariums with these little 1″ toys as we go.

Nice low water plants, the nightshades we carry.

This one is called White Witch and is a California Native

Solanum umbelliferum “Spring Frost”

Here we have the classic Spiny Tomato.

Solanum pyracanthum

People love them some nightshades in their garden.

Blogging may be slow, or not depending on how I feel, while in Chicago for a nursery convention.

Here’s the skyline from navy pier this morning.

Teacup Cactus with other tiny things if you look closely enough by weegreenspot from Portland, as seen on Etsy, a veritable source of cactus stuff and such.

By the way, enjoy this smores cage on National Smores Day.

More google fun, this time looking for cactus rings, and it turns out there’s a lot of them.Any of these would look GREAT! with a cactus hat! Who knew there were so many.

Let’s get the fun started!

Tall Cactus Ring by Noir at Karmaloop

Little pots of cacti by Barbara Uderzo for Alternatives Contemporary Jewelry Read More…

I’ve been practicing my google skills. And today we find that you can buy a plush cactus hat in the hot times fiesta party decorations group from the american balloon company.

Do you want to see what it looks like? It’s awesome…. Read More…

I’m at the SF gift show and found these horrid little cactus boxes. I didn’t buy them, since I don’t think they would sell. But if you disagree let me know and if enough people think they would buy one then maybe I’d reconsider.

Carole with Greenscape Associates sends along this unusual photo of a Cactus Footstool.

It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s going on. Here’s a Tiger Footstool in the same line.

And the whole line.

Does it make sense yet? Here’s what they say about it.

Flexible seating or footrest in the shape of an egg (tato) or a sphere (tatino) in CFC-free flexible polyurethane, with internal anatomical rigid structure and plastic base. Original photographic images printed on the bi-elastic technical-fabric cover. Once the cover is fit, the image becomes three-dimensional.

If you want to buy it you have to request a price quote first, or get your architect to order it for you.

Q: Can you really cut open a barrel cactus and find enough water to survive?

A:You will not find drinkable water inside a cactus. First of all, a cactus is not hollow inside like a water bottle. Secondly, the slimy liquid found inside the tissue of a cactus will actually make you sick if you drink it. Please bring plenty of water with you when you go into the desert and you will never be tempted to kill a cactus for water.

Smart advice. Who is this Ranger B?

“Ranger B,” Brennan Basler has been the interpretive ranger at the Usery Mountain Regional Park in Mesa for nearly half of his seven-year career as park ranger.

Twin photographers with a twin gallery in Phoenix, Tilt Gallery, took a photo of a twin cactus for the Phoenix New Times’ Jackalope column.

Akos sends along a link to this video of the sky moving behind a cactus. And other stuff too.

Keith tosses snails onto the roof. This snail is crawling back down the wall, from a height of about 22 feet. Brave snail! Do you think it will make it all the way down to safety?

I suppose this photo is a bit hard to read, so at the top of the photo there is blue, that is the sky. I am standing 18ft. below the snail looking up at a solid concrete wall with a snail crawling down from the metal cap flashing on the roof parapet, with it’s slime showing the trail down. Does that make more sense now?

via i-am-bored

Oh no! I forgot to blog today! Here have a picture! Cactus! Quick!

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