What do you use, aloebot? Mine is just an old Nikon d60 which you can still get for cheap on eBay. Then just set everything on manual mode and you can have it do nearly everything you want. My kit actually explains the kind of plants I have---small and best appreciated with a magnifying glass.

Dorstenia foetida

Other than a plethora of huge plumeria trees (and I mean: TREES) I only photographed this NOID flower (in a tree) at the airport:

And I was happy to see my big tiger aloe in full flower when I returned home:

Impossible to spell Ihlenfeldtia vanzylii. =)

Hard to spell, easy to love.

Do pre-bloom pics count? Couldnt wait to share :P

lone conophytum flower in the back

yesterday

I'm going to expand on the white Desert Rose that I have posted above. The flowers have been perfectly white singles that then 'fade' to a pink. It's really more dramatic than the pictures show.

This has probably happened in the past, but I didn't notice it. And maybe the weather has been different this year - we are in drought conditions. (don't get me started on a rant - we get over 60 inches of rain a year! that's not a drought!) I often get a mealie infestation on the blooms if I am not careful, so I was checking and noticed the pink!

Agave (=Manfreda) maculosa

Kalanchoe 'Pink Zinfandel'

Kalanchoe tomentosa x millottii (often distributed as 'Behartii')

Euphorbia globosa

mammillaria elongata goldilocks

Davez7anv, beautifully grown Mammillaria!

Gasteria bicolor var. liliputana

Euphorbia (=Pedilanthus) tithymaloides

I think it's gasteraloe, smaller of my two plants.

My NOID Thanksgiving cactus is in bloom again. Meg

A very lonely 'bloom' on Euphorbia obesa:

echinocereus

Kalanchoe x houghtonii 'Jaws of Life'

Kalanchoe laxiflora

Quadricolor

A. schooneesii

Sedum?

Mesemb

Kalanchoe

I'm not sure of the id on my little cactus, but it's flowering with pretty pink flowers.

It's a boy!!

Dorstenia lavrani

I've got a couple of blooms, not real showy, but enjoyable.

this is my Doris Taylor I believe

My aloe

My christmas cactus is putting on a small show

And lastly, just budding so far, my Easter cactus!!! 8 buds! I'm so excited .

Thanks for looking

Lopsided Lebedouria galipinii

Ornithogalum sardienii grown from seed

Drimia kirkii, needs a repot after the bloom!

Ornithogalum juncifolia X brittenae, the flower stalks spiral gently like the leaves!

Haworthia limifolia v. arcana

Euphorbia maromokotrensis, finally figured out how to make this mystery plant happy!

First buds ever on my Euphoria viguerii!!

Ben, that E. maromokotrensis is something else! Crown of Thorns, Dr. Suess edition. How do you keep it happy?

Notocactus uebelmannianus

mammillaria

Mammillaria backebergiana, with 25+ buds! I got this in March last year, with one of the horrible strawflowers hot-glued on top. You can see the damage where I peeled the glue off. The plant grew an inch in one year, so the damage is now an inch down the sides. I hate those darn strawflowers.

Some Euphorbias

E. milii

E. mammilaris

E. knobelii

E. grandicornis

E. pillansii

E. horrida

E. stellaspina

Thanks! :-) This species is similar to E. alfredii and E. ankarensis. I give all three species ample water (2x per week) when in growth. They need as much light as possible, although they prefer incredibly strong "filtered" light. My E. maromokotrensis does better in a clay pot that is soaked at every watering too, with soil that is more absorbent than what I usually use for Madagascan Euphorbia, as its stems are not as succulent as its relatives.

It would be easy to miss.... the flowers on my Ledebouria are finally opening up

Last September I pruned a Desert Rose and planted a couple of stems to see if they would root. I guess this one has rooted well. I was surprised to see flowers!

Ironically, the mother plant is not even budded up.

Beautiful bloom and picture!

Aeonium saundersii

Neohenricia sibbettii

You caught it open! At what time? Was it relived from punishment now? Haha.

Yay Pagan, congratulations!

Now you can go to sleep again :-)

Awesome thread and pictures! I'll contribute also!

Aeonium - unknown

The Neohenricia sibbettii flower opened at around 10-ish, actually. I didn't even have to resort to punishment.I wish it would produce multiple flowers at once, since I'm on a hand-pollinating kick.

Bulbine frutescens

Crassula nussbaumeranum

Jatropha podagrica

Euphorbia guiengola

Still blooming love this little gal, I also posted her in possibly Oct, or November blooms! She just keeps going! Also not sure about our "two lips" aka we are horrible at remembering the names especially scientific forms ;) either about to bloom or grow new leaves, but I was under the impression they bloom first?

The white is accidental sand substrate that I always get in the plants better than around! Anyway either way it's exciting and a first in our green lives! Love all the beautiful blooms and enjoy seeing the regulars/pros posting and saving the world one cacti and succulent at a time!! You guys and gals are the best! Sincerely Mary

Fuzzy / white flowers - What a cutie. Thanks for the prompt, Rina, to post our Spring babies in bloom.
This is the first to flower for me every year.
A rebutia

lophophora williamsii flower only once. And no more...

These night-blooming mesembs are making me not get enough sleep. This one smells very nice.

Stomatium niveum

Nice clump, ycloh1! How long does it take for them to clump like that?

My Stomatium mustellinum doesn't smell that nice, maybe a little sweet? What does yours smell like? They are neat little bottlebrush flowers.

Onlytheclassy - If conditions are just right, they will flower. But if not you will get new leaves without flowers. =)

Weird. Neohenricia sibbettii blooms are supposed to be scented but mine is odorless! The S. niveum has a faint smell of syrupy gardenia. It may also because there were two of them open at the same time so there was enough molecules for my brain to register.

Bottlebrush, eh. More like lens brush?

Pagan, L williamsii was bought with all the clumps.

Could not resist it.

Cheers

Saturday mornings:

Oops. Just realized it's April!

I realized that too but my mesemb opened before midnight lol

I think I forgot what a bottlebrush looks like, haha. Lens brush it is!

Neohenricia smells sweet and fruity. Had a hard time describing my Stomatium, which is why I asked. Syrupy is fitting, but I don't know what a Gardenia smells like!