All the flowers are blooming

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All the flowers are blooming

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Spring is in full swing and all the flowers are blooming. The Bluebells are starting to dominate the woodland floor on our walks too :beanie:
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Hi Alexandra,

Very nice but most impressive is that cactus " mamilaria bombycina " flowering in a climate like UK. I have never seen that beautiful creamy color of the flower here in Mexico. BTW I live in a state where we have an immense amount of different cacti flowering all over the year.

It is quite difficult to get them to have flowers while kept captive. Excellent job. :shock: :shock: :shock:

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I had no idea the name of the cactus, I was given it as a child so it has been with me a long time. After about 10-20 years it started to flower and has done every year but it is a disappointing pale cream, still pretty in the sunshine though. The flowers close up at night. I don't water it at all between the 1st Nov and 1st March, then it flowers from April onwards. I didn't know it came from Mexico either. It is mighty horrible if you brush past it, it never lets go :)

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Montana wrote: Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:49 pm I had no idea the name of the cactus, I was given it as a child so it has been with me a long time. After about 10-20 years it started to flower and has done every year but it is a disappointing pale cream, still pretty in the sunshine though. The flowers close up at night. I don't water it at all between the 1st Nov and 1st March, then it flowers from April onwards. I didn't know it came from Mexico either. It is mighty horrible if you brush past it, it never lets go :)

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... but it is a disappointing pale cream, ...
Interesting because I have rarely seen that creamy colour in wild. For me that is an astounding colour. I understand you might want to see more powerful colours but that is a rarity for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammillaria_bombycina

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Lovely garden flowers, Alexandra and a beautiful bluebell carpet in the woods.

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Thanks guys :)

Rainer, if we lived a bit closer I would give you a little baby bobble (not sure what you call the sprouts) :)

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Your garden looks great with the flowers starting to put on their show :bow The flowers along the walk in in the woods are lovely too...just a hint of green starting to show in the sugar bush today.

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Lovely flowers Alexandra. Fi says they're great. Thanks for the info on the cactus Rainer, we thought we had one too, but looks like is subtly different.


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Thanks guys :)

Say hello to Fiona for me :)

Rainer, I forgot to say, the 'kiosk' is my little greenhouse. If you look carefully you will see my Sweetcorn growing nicely in the window :)

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Re: All the flowers are blooming

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Very nice.I wish I had all those flowers down here for the bees.A very poor season of flowering down here.Mind you we have trees that are starting to flower now.


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