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I should put on sunglasses before opening your Threads!
Wow, that first shot is bright! Thanks for sharing.

Oh, and I think I saw a variegated Jade in there.....
I love the Jades. Any others, by chance?

Josh

someone stole my silver spider last summer...

Funny title...if my collection gets any bigger I will have to buy a new house...or get rid of my human family :-)

WOW! Those are all so incredible. You must really know what you're doing...obviously! ;-)

Oh dear...I think I should've listened to your warning...I want more plants now!!!!

and it only gets worse, this addiction....

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You're a cruel bunch of photographers. And I was doing so well staying off this particular Forum.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f294/vilcat/cacti%20and%20succulents/cacti090.jpg

Hey, what is this? I have something really similar, and I never could ID it properly.

amccour, it is Gymnocalycium saglione. It was a tiny little thing when I got it and as you can see by my thumb on the pot edge, it grew. The flowers are a fleshy-pink and have a bit of trouble opening up fully because of the crowd of spines.

Very Nice! where in NH are you from?
Great collection

Have you ever smelled your Albuca flowers? If not, go take a whiff, they are wonderful! The smell does wear off quickly though, so you may have to wait until another bud opens.

Definitely a nice collection, but in NH, I'd have to say that is a truly epic collection! I'd take them all, well, except for maybe that terra cotta cat... ;-)

Thanks for sharing!

nhhoney, I live in Jackson, the last town on Rt 16 before Mt. Washington.

joscience, my Albuca hasn't bloomed this year, I had to cut the foliage back because of aphids. Got new shoots coming on though.

And you wouldn't want terra-kitty in your garden? ;)

What a great collection! Have you grown any from seed?

hort lvr 4life, I have only grown a couple cactus plants and Jatropha podagrica from seed, but will be trying more. I have grown more tropical stuff from seed, like flowering banana, cashew, papaya, but have since killed them....they don't care for my neglectful ways, the banana was 5 years old before I killed it this winter. :(

I have some seeds for mixed Lithops, Blossfeldiana liliputans, Stomatium mixture, echinocereus berlandieri, echinopsis mixture, Mammillaria mixture, Rebutia mixture, Lobivia mixture, Pereskia grandiflora, and Aloe mixture.
We'll see how well I do with them. :)

Awesome collection...Absolutely gorgeous plants and flowers!! Thanks for sharing!

vilcat,would love to see pics of your of your sunroom/greenhouse .your plants are wonderful! you need to meet my friend she's from nh too (i call her the cactus queen ) lol! thanks for sharing ! mickymae

Wow, you are way up there.I live in Dover,You can check out some of my plants with this link.You have an awesome collection.
http://picasaweb.google.com/nhhoney1/KarenSPlants#

Here is a link that might be useful: Karens Plants

mickymae, here is a picture of my sunroom/greenhouse from a few years ago.

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Wow! your way down there! :)

You have a beautiful collection and very well photographed. I also like that you have the names...a lot of mine I don't know. Wonderful plants.

WOW VILCAT ----------IT'S A WONDERFUL SUNROOM /GREENHOUSE AND NOT HEATED ? IS THAT RIGHT? BUT OPEN TO THE REST OF HOUSE? LUCKY YOU!!!!!!!!!!

that is a dream greenhouse i cant wait tell I get my own home

WARNING: This may make you want to enlarge your collection build yourself an incredible sunroom

There, I fixed it for you! ;-) Seriously, I am just dripping with envy, and I can grow outside!

This greenhouse was a promise from my husband if I would move from a zone 7 (MD), to a zone 4b (NH). It took six years in NH to save up the money and I finally got the greenhouse in the fall of 2001. It is open to the house through a door in my pantry and two windows over my kitchen sink. I love it!

You have done amazing work nurturing those plants in zone 4. Most impressive! You have great skill.

Here, we just stick them in the ground and ignore them, which requires no skill at all.

stevenwayne, the plant that I believe you are asking about (in the second photo of the second set of pics hanging to the left of the large Aloe in the desert box) is Hoya keysii (that is what it was sold to me as). The leaves are thick, solid, and slightly pubescent, the flowers are white and have a "springtime" scent...kind of daffodil-ish to me. It grows and flowers well with no special care on my part.

Kathy

Oh, STOP IT you guys!!!! It's just creates envy! :-) Nice pics!!

OMG your plants are awesome!! Have never seen such a collection.Can you tell me what the 3rd picture is in the first set,with all the smaller pinkish flowers.TFS
Kathi

No...I fixed it :) Was exactly my thought as I went from "you must live some place really warm" until I saw snow. Then I thought the title needs to change!

(Went shopping yesterday and came home with several starter plants to fill a strawberry jar. Luckily (?) BEFORE I found this forum ;)

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Beautiful!

What is the reddish-purple starfish-shaped thing in the sixth picture down?

Did I read correctly that your sunroom is unheated?

Wow!

lol...vilcat...nothing would make me want to enlarge my collection if I had to bid against you to get ahold of it!
You have outbid me so many times on ebay in the past several years.....you're relentless! LOL!

I just had to say that after I saw your moniker....no hard feelings on my part though...you're taking VERY good care of them! (Ã)

Greta: That is the flower of Stapelia gigantea.

unfair that you can have all those great looking plants and a sun room/greenhouse in NH I'm down in Ma. and have to work hard to keep mine looking good, Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.

Bear

You had me at the Christmas cactus! lol

Gorgeous pictures....and awesome sunroom!