My friend CactusMcFryerburger, back in the San Diego days, told me we'd have a good time going clubbing. ETA - I've been hit by The Grape, but I'd hadn't yet been hit by a grape (it's a Cyphostemma trunk he's got in his hand).

Wow, Chris. You're putting the plants out in zone 6 already. I'm in zone 5, woke up to a blanket of snow this morning, and tonight I have a forecasted low of 18 F.

Chris, you are the current envy of us all. I'm still a good month away from doing that (in fact, we also just had a skiff of snow fall as I BBQ'd this evening).

Great photo! Good times, eh?

They were. Now are good times too, just with ice and snow (just a little bit of both left in the yard).

I'm in zone 6 as well, Last night close to frost but I still have some plants outside now. If I hit a frost, then I will bring them in for the night. What a PITA it is this time of year.

No snow left here. Just raw and wet out right now. Waiting for a delivery from Costco. Woo hoo such excitement.

The flower turns white as it opens.

Love the color of the leaves on that one. Is that seasonal, or does it stay that color year around?

Stupid lazy dog, Sedum adolphii require lots of light to maintain this color. Mine was able to stay yellow indoors due to adequate Supplemental lighting and was kept very dry throughout this winter (it was watered 2-3x since November).

Socks. You plant looks amazing.

Thanks for the info. It's really beautiful.

Here's another entry for the You Can't Have Too Many Euphorbias class...

A whole bunch of E. francoisii and Thai Hybrid francoisii. Most were grown from seed.

Looks like I’ve been outdone in this category and mine were not grown by me.

lol, I would say it's a tie. Yours look beautiful.

Here's one for the Touch This and You'll Be Sorry category...

Mammillaria senilis... brush against this, no matter how lightly, and those hooks grab on for all they're worth and won't let go. I have other cactus with hooked spines, but non hold a candle to this one. It is pretty and does have beautiful large red flowers, though.

sld and Howard

How do you manage to have such lush leaves on those euphorbias? Is it frequent watering?

Both of you have such great plants!

Rina, I find that francoisii likes more water and somewhat less sun than most of my other Euphorbias. In the summer they probably get water about every 4 or 5 days, maybe a bit more often if it rains a lot. They don't seem to go completely dormant in the winter and then they get watered about every 7 or 8 days. I think they also do a bit better for me when I have a little coir mixed in with the gritty mix.

Because if you do allow attributed pictures, you get something such as Dag Panco's Thelocactus nidulans seen here in spination mostly magnificent.

Or this habitat (Parras, Coahuila State) shot of Neolloydia ceratites, courtesy of Rodrigo Gonzalez . Rock is so on.

Jeff, that photo of the cat is priceless... "Who, me???" lol. The cat thought that she belonged on that pedestal instead of the plant.

Love those other photos, too. The diversity of cactus spination is fascinating. To me, anyway :-)

I think the cat wins the 'NotMe' category.

Jeff and Wendy, I appreciate your comments regarding E. f but I have ALWAYS had an issue with watering these. During the winter, they are kept at least 62F in the greenhouse with humidity that varies between 40%~70% depending on conditions. It seems I have an acclimation Issue re-establishing them from bare root shipping or something. On the other hand, E. leuconeura, also from Madagascar, can handle hordes of water all year long. So I have become extremely conservative with my E. f.

Howard,

Wanted to show your plants you gave me. Very slow growing for me but looking well.

Planted the same time and both tiny seedlings in same soil. One on right is 3 times the other.

Good growing, Stan!

Howard, it's really interesting that your experience with E. francoisii is so different from mine. I used to struggle with it until I decreased amount of sun it was getting and increased watering. Just goes to show that the methods one person succeeds with may not work at all for another. I guess we just have to try and pay attention to what the plant is telling us, and adjust things as we go.

Here's another Madagascar Euphorbia that I find is very thirsty (at least when it's not dormant). Mine doesn't look too beautiful right now but here it is...

Euphorbia millottii

Stush, those are really nice Haworthias. I think that truncata is my favorite. Here are mine.

Wendy, nice Haws. Didn’t know you liked them. My E. millotti doesn’t usually drop its leaves. It just stops growing through the winter. It’s just waking up.

Howard, I do like Haws, but I don't have too many of them. I'll take a photo of the rest of my clan in a little while.

Nice millottii. My millottii has gone dormant every winter. It goes through an incredibly sad looking period every fall as it's going dormant. Let's see if I have a photo...

It looks pathetic and neglected, like it's either been drastically under watered or over watered and it takes a long time for the leaves to finally fall off. Sometimes I get impatient with it, and I get out my trusty shears and help it along.

Wendy, 😂. Don’t get me wrong....comes winter, I do have several yellow leaves but it never wimps out.

Mine always comes back in the spring and grows well, but it's such a drama queen for about a month, month and a half in the late fall. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was at death's door. And then it's completely naked for the winter.

I hear you! I’ve had mine for several years. I wasn’t familiar with its growing habit. So when the leaves began turning yellow and dropping, I thought I’d knocked off another nice plant. But here we are

here's the rest of my Haworthia clan...

Windy, You always impress me with your one of a kind super plants. Love that variegated look on that second picture. I have an unknown one that looks similar but no variegation. Some of them have to be many years old? I have a variegated Haworthia reinwardtii variegated that is over 4 years old and still quite small.

This side of plant is producing a all yellow pup while other side is light green.

Just took these pictures this morning and first noticed the pups. :-)

Here's the rest of my Haworthia collection. Small and common compared to Howard's.

Crested columnars are always a crowd pleaser, like this Trichocereus pachanoi, shared and grown by Roberto Ariu. There's nothing like a Mediterranean climate to grow these to almost-otherworldly dimensions.

Speaking of show, this is a three-ring circus - Agave parryi v. truncata, grown by Jeremy Spath. Boom, there it is.

Jeff, that cactus is pretty fabulous as is the agave. I love the variegation on that one. If only I could grow plants like these outside!

Stush, your Haworthia collection looks big and beautiful to me, not at all small and common. Here are a couple more photos of my H. fasciata variegata...

I've had this one since 2013. As you can see, it has some all yellow pups, a couple of all green ones, and the rest range from very variegated to slightly variegated.

What a nice plant, Wendy, and as you said the nearly full range of variegation.

My entries...

Ferocactus emoryi

Ferocactus rectispinus

Astrophytum ornatum

Windy as always, your plants are award winners.

Jeff, Thanks for the pictures. Never seen a Creste so large growing. The one I have is only 6 inches and 10 years old. That Agave is to die for. Great show.

s g, those cactus are fabulous. I'm not sure which ones I like the best, but I do have a soft spot for all Astrophytums :-) Mine are all just babies compared to yours. I'll post a few pics later.

Al, all of those are wonderful. Great pots, too. Is that last one a pot? Looks like "The Scream". What is the tiny bonsai in the blue pot? Love the acorn cap and the little jam pot as well. Thanks for posting all of these!

Here are some of my Astrophytums. These are all myriostigma.

Great pots, too. The first image shows Aeonium in a plastic cap from a can of hair spray. The next Aeonium is in a companion plant (to bonsai) pot made by Pauline Muth, a bonsai master. Skipping the clay pot, the Euphorbia capsaintemariensis is in a hand made bowl I bought at a garage sale & drilled a hole in, followed by 2 tiny bonsai pots holding a cactus hardy to z5 and Erodium reichardi, commonly alpine geranium. In the little salter are the cobweb variety of Sempervivum, aka house leak or hen-and-chicks, followed by Portulacaria in a white oak acorn cap. Is that last one a pot? No Looks like "The Scream". I was at a customers home walking up to the door when I glanced down at the stone mulch the owner had used. There was 'something' odd about the shape of one particular stone of the millions, so for some treason, I picked it up. When I turned it over, I saw exactly what you see in the image.I asked the home owner if cared if I kept it and of course he was ok with that. What is the tiny bonsai in the blue pot? Erodium reichardi

Great thread!

Al

Another member of the Euphorbia family, Monadenium coccineum. Not only are the cyathia beautifully red, it forms a nice caudex. I can’t say the rest of the plant in between is much to see!

The flowers look like orchards. Nice show Howard.

Beautiful, Howard. I only have M. ritchiei (both variegated and non variegated) and M. stapelioides variegata. I think I should branch out and look for this one :-)

silly question, Wendy, bit you’re still at the same address in CT 06019. Give me another week and it’s in the mail. Still a bit cold here.

Same address Howard, thanks so much! Want a Toxic Milkshake x obesa seedling?

My Adenium somalense Tanzania has come out of dormancy and started flowering