'fairy castle cactus with pink straw flowers' care?
sparkimusprime
18 years ago
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Perennials for the roses in the fairy garden
Comments (16)Thank you for the wonderful suggestions :) I have a kitchen garden I'm putting in, just beyond the fairy garden, where we will plant sunflowers, nasturitums, marigolds, calendula, even stock and evening stock....all the fun companion plants for the veggie garden. In that area, there will be a mini-veggie garden along one part of the fence, with a Peter Rabbit theme. There's also a small kids' seating area planned, with a "mushroom" table and "stump" stools, under an arbor with gourds and mini-pumpkins. There's a middle bed, about 7' x 14' with three metal arches for the kids to walk under. These will be for pole beans, cherry tomatoes, climbing peas and flowers. There will be other veggies around the arches, with stepping stones underneath, planted with alpine strawberries for one of my nieces. Back in this area, we also plan to put a hopscotch area made up of stepping stones, kind of hidden behind the arches. The rest of the kitchen garden has an 11' x 14' bed for a bean teepee, watermelons and veggies this year, but eventually a grape arbor with a table and chairs underneath. (The big vegetables will be in another garden next year.) The rest of the perimeter beds are for salad veggies, herbs and flowers. We live on the family farm, so we have a lot of nieces, nephews, and friends' kids out to visit and see the horses, so I want them to have things to do and gardening can be so much fun for kids. Many don't have gardens at home, so I want them to see gardening can be fun and the food tastes so much better! For the little ones, or just a shady space for Auntie to sit and have tea when they're not here, I have the "fairy" garden. This is against the east side of the house, so the tea table and chairs are in the afternoon shade. This is where I'm putting the Zephirine Drouhin roses against the house and some ferns and maybe a few hydrangea. There's also pansies, columbine, forget-me-knots, violets, sweet woodruff and some wild sweet william. There's a grass path along the side of the house, that divides the shade garden from the sunnier part of the garden, where most of the roses are planted. That's where I need to fill in with some color. Behind the roses, I have blueberries (to keep the deer away--so far it works) and behind that, I'm thinking of putting a couple of dwarf apple trees. Since there's so much to do in the veggie garden, I'm trying to make the fairy garden more of a fun place where we can see butterflies, bumblebees and maybe an occasional dragonfly...which the girls love. I also have some cute little animal statues and a small cement castle I'll tuck under the plants for the kids to find and enjoy. The main colors are lots of greenery, pink, purple, blue and white. Any other suggestions for the fairy garden are greatly appreciated :)...See MoreID this cactus?
Comments (4)Very easy to grow from the little pups from it let one dry out for a week then plant it and then mist water to get a new plant these will flower for you to...See MoreFirst Time Cactus Owner! Moon Cactus Rotting? SOS!
Comments (20)Hi! So I'm a newbie to the cacti parenting world and was hoping someone may be able to tell me if I'm doing this right? I picked these cuties up from Home depot a couple months ago. The yellow one had this great flower bud looking like it might bloom soon but now it looks like I killed it. When I first got them they didn't have the little...bulbs? on the side of them or on top (like my red one.) I thought this was a sign I was doing well with them but now I'm worried I might be doing the same to the cacti that I did to the flower and I of course don't want that! So what I've been doing is checking the soil every week to feel if it feels like it's completely dry. Usually by the end of the week it feels that way. so I take them out of the decorative pots (cause they don't have drainage holes) and water them thoroughly with a slow but steady sink stream. Once the soil seems to have sufficient water, I allow the extra water to drain into the sink before putting them back into their decorative pots and putting them back on the windowsill for direct sunlight. I read that in winter you shouldn't water them as much (like once a month?) but we are still in fall her in NC. Am I doing this right or just being an idiot? I'm kinda bummed I lost the little flower but if I can encourage them to grow more I want to try! But mostly I want to be a good cacti parent....See MoreWhat the heck is this cactus?
Comments (18)1. Almost no cacti are native to Africa, only a few Rhipsalis. 2. cactusmharris is absolutely correct, Internet is one of the most untrustworthy sources when it comes to names of cacti. There are loads of misapplied, outdated, misspelled and even made up names. 3. Not even varieties but species How do you know that? 'Fairy Castles' is a "freak", a dwarf form, I think it is monstrose too, most specimens are rather young. They look quite different from an adult, normal specimen of the species. The variability within many species is surprisingly large, and if you can say that two cereoids are different species just by looking at pictures on the Internet you must be some kind of taxonomical psychic. Unless you are good at identifying cereoids of course, but I don't think you would have asked your question if you had been. 4. Further, the cereoids are not well studied, and there is considerable confusion about names like hildmannianus, peruvianus and others, I am not surprised at all that you find this plant under different names. Exactly which names that are valid and what plants they should be applied to I cannot say, I leave that to the taxonomists to sort out (it seems as this is yet to come), and I am not exactly interested either (I have never collected columnar cacti). What I gave you where the common name and the most common botanical name(s) for what I think the cactus on the photo is. 6. This is a cultivar, a form bred by growers and probably not widespread in nature, if it ever has been found in the wild at all, and cultivars are subject to even more name confusion than "real" species. I believe the reason is that they are spread by non-specialists who neither understand nor are interested in taxonomy, and tend to pick some names from the 1920s, forget half of the names, mix up the bits and randomly assign them to plants that more or less resemble the rightful bearer of the original name. This is often the case for Epiphyllum, Echinopsis, Selenicereus, Schlumbergera, Hatiora - and Cereus. (e-bay is a great source of examples of this)...See Morejview
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