June 2018 Blooms
rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
5 years ago
I have only few different aloes blooming - all have very similar blooms. Gasteria glomerata is blooming too:
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Andrew (UK south coast, like 9a)
5 years agoGraptopetalum amethystinum...
I've waited 2 years for this plant to flower so that I could nail this ID! The leaves on my plant never take on any pink color like they are supposed to for this species but the flowers are unmistakeable.
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May 2018, Week 5, Heat Wave and Hello June
Comments (117)I have not been pushing any limits in the heat the last couple of days. In fact, it is sort of the opposite. I watered the plants well on Thursday and only did minor work for an hour or two yesterday and have stayed away from the garden ever since. As I am typing this, it is 99 here and the heat index is 112 so y'all had better believe I'm smart enough to not be out there in this heat. We did the whole CostCo-Sam's Club run down to the metroplex today and stocked up on everything, so we're good for a couple of weeks. It is terrible when Saturday morning feels too hot to even run errands and shop, but it did....and we went out and did everything we needed to do anyway. Now the game plan is to stay indoors, stay cool and hydrated, and enjoy having our oldest granddaughter here for what is left of this weekend. Jennifer, Armenian cukes love the heat and are very disease-tolerant. They actually are melons and not cucumbers, but if harvested while on the small side, they are very cucumber-like and even can be used to make pickles. The larger they get, the more melon-like they become, but not a sweet melon---sort of bland. I harvest them small for us and let them get as big as possible for the chickens. On hot days, I cut an Armenian Cucumber in half and put it on the ground and the chickens peck away at the flesh until there's nothing left. They love them, and it helps to hydrate the chickens as well as just entertaining them. As soon as something else finishes up in my garden, probably pole beans or squash, I'll plant Armenian cukes so I will have them for the chickens when the real (ha ha, that's a joke) summer heat arrives in July and August. I would have planted them in the back garden this year, if I'd planted the back garden. Megan, I'm sorry to hear that about your beans. If I hadn't planted mine ridiculously early (March), I would be in the same boat. I've pulled one variety because of the spider mites, but the other three are still chugging along. I am watching to see if the blooms form new beans tomorrow and Monday during the cooler weather they say is coming. (I can't see it or feel it here yet, but a lot of y'all who are north of us are cooler today, so I just hope the cold front comes this far south as predicted and doesn't stall somewhere north of us.) That's unfortunate about the gray leaf spot. I hate diseases. I am going to have very low tolerance for anything/everything this summer and won't hesitate to yank out the plants that start looking pitiful or stop producing. I am not foolish enough to think I can baby these plants through a long, extra-hot and likely extra-dry summer. It is just easier to plant fresh plants in late June or early July for fall production. This year does bear some unfortunate similarities to 1998. We lived in Texas then, but already had purchased this land and were up here clearing the woods and working on fencing in our 14.4 acres every weekend. Sometimes we didn't get much done in one weekend between the heat and the dense jungle that was our woodland. I thought we'd die in the heat before we got the fencing done. I remember it was a horrific grasshopper year, and Bruce and I both are seeing signs of that already too. Jen, As the plant gets older it will put out more tall stems. Its' nature is to have a low bushy growth of foliage at the ground level and to send up the tall blooming stems. Just deadhead each one back after it blooms and it will make more. One of the nicknames for verbena bonariensis is verbena-on-a-stick and now y'all see why. Butterflies absolutely adore the blooms. Jennifer, We have those gigantic flies here. They are horrifyingly huge. Back when Chris was in school and they had to do that insect collection in Biology, our place was incredibly popular because the kids could come here and collect enough different insects in one day to have enough for their collection. Until we moved here, I'd never seen those gigantic flies either. Bolted onions can be chopped and frozen. Paula, I have found lemon grass works as well as anything else to repel flies. I agree too, it is the little things that matter. Amy, It looks like you hit Smashed Thumb at an awesome time! Have y'all noticed that on the FB gardening pages this week, there's tons and tons of tomato problems? It is mind-boggling, and I simply cannot believe how many photos we're seeing with herbicide damage, though we also are seeing plenty with plain old physiological leaf roll. I should get off this computer and go sweep and mop my floors. I just don't want to. Heat makes me lazy. Dawn...See More2018 June Lotto Block
Comments (32)Woo -hoo! Thank you all. I was looking at the picture of the blocks, yesterday, thinking how, if I won them, would I set them. Now I really have to think creatively. Side by side? Sashing? We will see. again, thanks to all. Theresa...See MoreBlooming in June 2018
Comments (66)Hey Tom, I know I have a pretty rare one I got from a friend in which his visited I think was Columbia from the forest, then I have a few other pretty cool ones. I will take pics and you can see the leaves. I would love that! I am rooting some now...Who knows, maybe one of my mother plants will die and you could carry on with it and have back up just as I would for you. Thanks buddy Tom here is my e-mail when you get a chance and I can provide my address and such. I can send you cuttings as soon as yesterday! mikerno_1@yahoo.com...See MoreJune 2018, Week 1: Hot Time, Summer In The City
Comments (99)Jennifer, Could the dog have been bitten by a snake she was trying to bite? If you can look at the hard knot in her mouth, do you see any fang marks? When we have a dog with swelling around the mouth/nose/snout area, it usually is a copperhead bite. No treatment required except maybe Benadryl for swelling. The only time we've had a dog stung by a bee or hornet wasn't in the mouth---was in the facial area and there were knots at the sting sites and swelling. Benadyl was the solution. With the onions that got wet, it probably just means they'll need a longer drying period. Watch them for mold though. Amy, When Houzz changes things, I just roll on and work around whatever they've changed. I ignore notifications, FAQs, etc. in the gardening season because I don't have time for that stuff. I just come here to chat with y'all. I'm just grateful they saved GardenWeb when it looked like it was going to go away and disappear into the realm of used-to-be's. Someday it will go away and all we'll have left to help us stay in touch is the OK Gardening-related FB pages. I think it is just a matter of time. I'm surprised your Red Rivers are done. When I've grown them they're usually about the last ones to mature, and it often is late June or sometime in July. This has been a weird year, and my onions are weirder than anything else. Half the 1015Ys fell over and I harvested them. The rest remain strong and upright and still growing. Normally they're done by now. One Candy has fallen over. None of the others have. Copra? Nothing yet and I wouldn't expect it. Either last year or the year before they were the last ones to mature and it took them forever. This has been such a weird weather year that I guess nothing should surprise us at this point. Some of my tomato plants have great fruit set. Some do not. It appears directly related to how early I did or did not plant them. The ones planted in late March (I only planted 7 that early) have had a huge fruit set, and we've already harvested most of that fruit----dozens and dozens of tomatoes. The rest, the ones that were planted about 10-14 days later, have set maybe 1/5th as much fruit. Some have not set fruit at all. We went from too cold to too hot literally overnight here and the plants just sat there forever, shellshocked and doing nothing. It probably doesn't help that the rain mostly keeps missing us. For as bad as I think they look compared to most years, at leaste they are relatively healthy. We may be too hot now for them to ever set fruit and I'm not going to baby them through the whole entire summer, so if they want to stick around, they'd better get busy setting fruit. Next year I'll probably plant them all as early as possible and cover them, instead of planting in stages. Rebecca, We don't have JBs down here. I guess they haven't yet made it this far west and south. We might see 1 or 2 stray ones each summer. Dorothy (Mulberryknob) lives in Adair County and I'm almost positive she mentioned buying and using some type of Japanese Beetle traps from someplace like Home Depot in previous years. I've never seen those traps down here, but it seems like they worked pretty well for her. Larry, I'm sorry about the hail. I hope the damage wasn't too bad, We don't get much rain here in the summer months, and I do try to grow dryland style as much as possible, but I still have to irrigate quite a bit. I wish I didn't. It is a grandchildren weekend so I didn't step foot in the garden today and probably won't step foot it it tomorrow either. I'm okay with that. After working in it all week in the heat, as much as I do love it, I need a break and weekends are a good time to take a break and spend the time with family and friends. Dawn...See More
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SpanishFly - (Mediterranean)
5 years agoToday there is: Pelecyphora aselliformis
Cumarinia odorata - just one pale flower poking through the hooked spines.
Aztekium valdezii - with a Lophophora williamsii hitching a ride. Those little devils get everywhere.
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5 years agoSpanishFly - (Mediterranean)
5 years agoErmione, I find the other species of Pelecyphora, P. strobiliformis, produces offspring most prolifically, and with the loveliest flowers. I can send you a couple of flowering adults and some youngsters if you would care to PM me.
Here´s an older pic - lots of those have been given as presents to Mrs Fly´s friends.
aloebot
5 years ago
Crenda 10A SW FL
5 years agoI bought a braided desert rose last Feb/Mar. I really don't like the braided branches, so I unwound them and repotted. And the buds promptly fell off!
So I decided to let it bloom before I prune. Thankfully, it didn't take too long!
Wow! I thought it was probably a pink plant, but this is a nice surprise! When it is done blooming I can deal with those long floppy stems you can see in the background.rina_Ontario,Canada 5a thanked Crenda 10A SW FL
Lars
5 years agoThis cactus has been blooming for me this month, off and on, as the flowers do not stay open for that long, but it has a lot of buds this year:
gdinieontarioz5
5 years agoRhipsalis pilocarpa:
Rhipsalis capilliformis, elegant flowers on an elegant plant:
Echeveria ‘Doris Day’:
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Kara 9b SF Bay Area CA
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoEpithelantha unguispina
Thelocactus buekii
Mystery cactus;) the flowers on the cactus are more orange in real life, and really vibrant.I already posted this Euphorbia hybrid on this post, but the flowers are more opened and really cute;).
Echinopsis chamaecereus ‘Rose Quartz’
Lobivia leucomalla
rina_Ontario,Canada 5a thanked Kara 9b SF Bay Area CAAlain (Pacifica, CA;10a)
5 years agoCleistocactus winteri cristata
Cleistocactus strausii
Euphorbia francoisii (recently acquired, so no credit besides the fact I did not killed it yet...)
Monadenium ritchieri
Echeveria minima
Kalanchoe rhombopilosa
Euphorbia aureoviridiflora (another recent acquisition, still alive, not sure those are flowers or leaves!!, but just in case it's dead next month...)
Neoporteria huascensis
Bonus shot, not mine but spotted at the last SF cactus show (that show was amazing...)
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Ermione_Greece(z9)
5 years agoKara,that epithelantha is so sweet and the thelocactus has such beautiful color!
Alain,lol!You have a wide range of plants,I think the new ones are safe with you.I love the Neoporteria.
Here is my coryphantha maiz tablasensis
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Laura F (z9FL)
5 years agoKara I love your "euphorbia hybrid" with the redish flowers! It has given me some hybridizing ideas! You don't see many mini red ones other than gottlebei. So I'm now waiting for mine to bloom. Here is E. Gottlebei, not mine, for sale. I didn't even ask the price because I knew I couldn't afford it.
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5 years agomyermike_1micha
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHello. Hello Rina and everyone else. Great pics and so beautiful. Thank you. Just a few more
This one below almost looks like he's putting his hand up in class while the other is down.lol Just needs two eye balls.
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Paul MI
5 years agoGot this in trade a couple years back. Bit disappointed. While it is a Ceropegia of some sort, it was supposed to be Ceropegia sandersonii which it clearly is not.
Flower is approx 2.5-3 inches long.
Close up of the little fringes at the top of the blossum. They move in even the lightest breeze.
The edges of the openings are lined with fine hairs. Not a great photo, unfortunately. If you click on the image to get a larger view, the hairs are a bit more visible ... if not by much.
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Matt z5b - Greenhouse 10a
5 years agoApus is opening
Some other starting to flower are E. something ruffles, E. topsy turvy, E. black prince and one more I've forgot the name of.
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aloebot
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoErmione ( err-me-Oh-knee?), Copiapoa flowers are simple, but I like them.
Cop. pseudocoquinbena
Avonia quinaria ssp. alstonii
Aloe molederana (somalia). Check out the fuzz
Carnegea gigantea. Night bloomer
Aloe distans again
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoChad19 (AB-CA-3b)
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I'm having an unusually good year of flowers, now only if the wind would stop damaging/uprooting everything outside.
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5 years agoOT - I don't have any crested succulents, but have fascinated Shasta daisy blooms...nothing unusual.
They still look good in front of taller Penstemon:
Andrew (UK south coast, like 9a)
5 years agoI have a few Pachyphytums all flowering at once...
P. compactum:
P. coeruleum:
P. oviferum
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5 years agoGraptosedum Bronze (aka Alpenglow):
Echeveria setosa:
Echeveria setosa var. deminuta:
Echeveria Perle von Nuernberg
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isde02(zone5b)
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoNothing too showy, Ceropegia Woodii flowering
Euphorbia Millotii flowering and finally starting to branch.
Oh yea and Jathopha Cathartica blooming again..... I must be doing something halfway right lol.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoMatt z5b - Greenhouse 10a
5 years agoThis euphorbia milii was put in the ground in May? only receives 3-4 hours of sun and seems to be loving it.
Henry Fonda rose,, thanks for looking!
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