It's the chubby and the powdery and the erratic fluttery that gets me *shudder* There was a big one in my car that flew up into our faces. Thankfully I was still in park LOL but my daughter and I nearly injured ourselves trying to get out of our seat belts and out of the car. I imagine it was quite a show for the neighbours, we had all 4 doors open and it took us 10 minutes to locate and shoo it out.

Found this one outside at a local nursery a few years ago. It was humongous! It was quite 'tame' in the cooler summer weather, just sat on my arm, so I took it along in a shopping bag in the car to show our son ;-). Then it sat quietly on my hand all the time while I did a show and tell. In the end I brought it out in the garden, and after 10 minutes or so it decided to fly away.

Queen of the Night epiphyllum, very fragrant. This one blooms two or three times a year on my front porch.

I removed the many dead leaves from underneath this echeveria and found a baby growing off an old flower stalk. Found two but the other one was completely gone. Hope this one makes it. Definitely has taught me to clean up leaves more often and to keep the dead flower stalks on! :-)

No clue what this is, it just sprouted it my yard and now it blooms.

Opuntia, but which one? Humifusa?

Yep I agree if I had to guess it would be O. humifusa. They're native to North America, and a cold hardy species. Beautiful flowers:),

Thank you! My ID efforts have been fruitless since my eyes are not accustomed to spotting differences between opuntias. I had guessed it was hardy but I had no idea it could even be a native! It's been bit a couple of times in early spring but they leave it alone now.

Obregonia denegrii

Beautiful Obregonia! How old is it? I had never seen one. Will have to keep my eyes open now...

Avonia quinaria ssp. alstonii

4 more today

Full frontal

gdinieontarioz5, I don't know how old it is, didn't grow it from seed. Judging from the size, I think it has to be at least 5 or 6 years old.

Pleiospilos simulans, 8cm diameter flower. The biggest of my Mesembs:

And all closed up after just 2.5 hours:

Sadly this cactus is not mine but is really cute and cacti are rarely seen outside in Bulgaria.

Euphorbia stella

Gasteria flower against the backdrop of Sansevieria masoniana

This is the 4th or 5th time these Gymnos have bloomed since February:

edit: all have 2-5 more buds developing as well

Echinopsis subdenudatum and Rebutia heliosa.

I have this planter on the pavement by my front door, currently Delosperma sutherlandii 'Peach Star' (front) and Lampranthus in bloom

E. Allegra

E. Candy Corn

E. Set Oliver (possibly E. Arrow)

E. Sunburst

Calico kitten crassula

Sempervivum

Mammillaria theresae

Haworthia cymbiformis var. transiens

Haworthia limifolia

Kd

Notocactus ottonis

Notocactus scopaand Echinopsis subdenudata again

Titanopsis calcarea, love this little plant!

Sempervivum arachnoideum. They're still so small. I don't want them to die

Hm. You may have gotten them already mature. I have a bunch of five-year olds blooming now.

I like your T. calcarea too, Andrew. And some kind of trichodiadema in the background?

Echinocereus rigidissimus rubrispinus:) Good cactus;).

Mammillaria theresae:) this guy is the size of half my thumb, but keeps blooming.

Notocactus sulphureus:)

My id of this Astrophytum is A. myriostigma nudum. I'm not sure if that's right. Mine has four sides.

Rebutia muscula:)

Sulcorebutia canigueralii:) I thought they had the same flowers, but don't.

Sulcorebutia rauschii cv violacedermis:)

Trichocereus bridgesii monstrose aka, well I think you guys already know the common name of this plant;). I put this up because I love the way it produces new growth. The new growth just bursts out of the side of older growth. I know other Trichocereus do this, but this is the only one of mine that I've seen this happen too.

Gorgeous plants, gorgeous flowers, Kara. I have E. r. r., but it will not come out of its sulk after being transplanted into gritty. Patience is a virtue, I guess...

Love the bloom fest in this thread.
Kara, your mini m.t. is a cutie. It'll grow about double size every year. The rubispinus flowers are gorgeous.
Nice growing everyone!

Dinie- the first year I had my E.r.r. It bloomed once in late August. The year after it went crazy. Give it a chance may bloom later in the season. If you start to see little fuzzy pieces growing. Than you will probably start growing buds. You can see the fuzzies in my first pic of my E.r.r. You are very right patience is a total virtue:).

Aztcqn- I love your bloom thread. Lots of inspiration. Your Mammillaria theresae is so beautiful. I can't wait till mine gets bigger. He's such a good bloomer now. I can't imagine when he's triple the size:).

Kara, mine was bought and repotted in the last week of March. No sign of any growth yet. I think I need to check for mealies :-(.

When I visited the nursery a number of weeks later, its friends were in full bud.

Goodluck I pray you don't find meallies on that cactus. What a task to get rid of them. The spines are so closely packed together.

Next year you should get blooms. Like I said the first year I had it it only bloomed once. Last year I got three huge seed pods. They were loaded with little black seeds:). Mine gets afternoon sun.

Mammillaria zielmanniana, white form.

Small cactus

Rhipsalis pilocarpa

Hoya pubicalyx 'Silver Pink'

Last day of June. Rainy day in Cape Town.

Anton this is OT, but I love your Avatar. I'm such a Snoopy/Peanuts fan:),

Turbinicarpus Schmideck

@kara: that makes two of us. :) Been a snoopy fan since my early teens.

Haworthia parksiana has bloom stalks peeking out from 3/5 heads :-)

Weirdly curved Aloe bowiea stalk

Frailea pymaea

Anton, my dad had this Snoopy/piggie bank when he was little. Then I got it when I was little. The stamp on the bottom says 1958:).

@Anton & Kara

How about his brother Spike? My younger son loved Snoopy in his preteen years--I'm going to do a punch needle of Snoopy's brothers and sister for a Christmas present for him.

Kara--I'm glad you still have that bank!

Spike is sooo cute! Spike lives in a Saguaro. How fitting:).

Oh I could never get rid of Snoopy bank:). There are still coins in there from when I was a little girl;).

I think I love Snoopy because my grandma loved him(my father's mom), and my dad loves Peanuts. So the love was bound to be passed down. My dad said when my mom was young she reminded him of Peppermint Patty:).

After 4 months of continuous blooming, my E. "Dominos" is really putting on a show

For scale, that's a 4" pot. These are the most fragrant flowers this cactus has put out so far, and they're huge. Absolutely love this plant

(Nice blooms - there is July thread, maybe you want to post there???)

Yikes, you're right lol. Too much wine for Alyssa last night!