Hi Guys and Gals,

Long time no see !! See you're all still raising and showing your beauties,i am as well,but have been super busy with other stuff,or as they say"life got in the way" as did the heat and humidity here in S.Calif.Can't remember when i was here last,just know it's been awhile.

Bet you all thought i went to facebook!! Well i am on fb,but not on any of the gardening sites,just chatting with family and friends,and on some cross stitch sites on there.

I had a gd and her 3 kids living here with us for awhile,they just moved out the middle of last month,and i've been getting my house back in order.So i should be able to jump back on here from time to time.

Hope you all have been well,and hope none of you are in Irmas path.Sending up prayers and good thoughts for all those who are being affected by this storm.

Kathi

Kathi

Nice to see you back! So many ppl 'disappeared'-recently a bunch all at once -:( probably to FB...

Hope to see more of your posts and photos soon.

Echeveria Blue Heron

A declining gymnocalycium baldianum bloom. It was closed every time when I got home from work - this was the first time I was able to catch it. Also note the wee baby growing below the bloom! :)

First bloom for my E. nodulosa. Such pretty pink and white flowers. The plant itself is a gangly etiolated mess - I'm just enjoying the blooms LOL

Wee inflo pushing up from this clump of Aloe.

Hey Nil. Looks like it's going to form a heart shape.

Tyler

Newly opening A. Obesum Purple Crown and an unnamed pink, similar to Pink Pathumma, but not the same plant or flower. As compared to the Purple Crown in my earlier post, you can see how quickly the color fades. Perhaps if I didn't leave it in full sun the color wouldn't fade so quickly.

Tyler

Euphorbia Francoisii red leaves

My Matucana madisoniorum buds are finally opening, wonderful to see this cactus in flower again

Another cactus with wee flowers

And last year's white adenium is flowering, finally: for the first time this year

Dorstenia lancifolia flowering with seeds about to shoot out!

Added a close-up image. Look like acne on steroids.

Some from me

This one has me confused--It's 'Dangerous Journey' and last year the flower was a deep red, but now it seems to have reverted to the nonhybrid standard white and pink?????????

E. harmsii

Crassula Red Pagoda

Plumeria King Kalakaua

noid Plumeria

I think these are 2 separate Echeverias--now that they have bloomed I am unsure. The leaves still look different shapes though. What do you think?

Could it be E. runyonii? (Not 'Topsy Turvy'). IIRC, shape of leaves could be quite variable, even on the same plant.

Thanks Rina, it could definitely be runyonii. I actually have that or some lilacina hybrid as possible IDs. I wondered if the last could be Pollux also. It has very paddle shaped leaves.

Gardenia Tiare. Waited a long time for this one to bloom. I think I finally got it right. Smells amazing.

Tyler

Crassula Pagoda Village

This post is from June when I had it inside:

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/4681004/crassula-pagoda-village-flowering-or-etoliated

These 2 photos are from today. What a difference a few months and a lot more light makes. Really thankful for the advice, Kara & Harry!

Tyler

Stewart! That Tiare takes me back to a trip I took to Tahiti. It was funny how they explained (in addition to the usual wearing over the left ear meant taken and wearing over the right ear meant available) that wearing *backwards* over the left ear meant you were taken but available for the night! :P

No idea what flower is this.

@Ycloh1--Your plant looks like Strophanthus caudatus.

Bought this beauty last month, and it keeps growing new flower buds (only one flower open at a time though). If only I could post the gorgeous fragrance of it as well....

Huernia procumbens

Stapeliad

We had crazy weather this past week, but this Trichocereus hybrid's flowers stayed nice for 3 days.

Tiny beginnings of a bloom stalk forming for this big mama

H maughanii with double bloom

Haworthia mantelli

I think some sort of h. Pygmaea cultivar, with crazy long bloom!

Cute adromischus little spheroid

Echeveria subsessillis

Hybrid Aloe

Few blooming and soon-to-be-blooming aloes:

It looks like my Myrmecodia has decided to flower. But, if I'm not mistaken, this is all the flowers will be like. Not exactly spectacular :-(

A bit more colour from the greenhouse today

Little surprise:

Hoya multiflora

Plectranthus argentatus above, Kalanchoe rotundifolia below (the only Kalanchoe expected to flower at this time of year).

Heavy frost last night, these bloomed in the past few days.

Loving the sun.

The end of the season is near, fewer bloom,

but here's a big one

Pseudolithos cubiformis

Dorstenia gigas

Ariocarpus retusus

Gymnocalycium mihanovichii

Gymnocalycium ragonesei

Hoya carnosa f. compacta with an interested bee

Mammillaria schiedeana

Parodia mairanana

almost opened - Faucaria felina subs. tuberculosa cv. Super Warty (pls. correct me if wrong name!):

odyssey3, your plumeria are beautiful. The foliage is gorgeous, not to mention those silky-looking flowers. I can only imagine the smell

After a summer of full, relentless sun, my Stapelia has finally bloomed. Never was quite sure the difference between S. gigantea and S. grandiflora, but whichever this is it's smells god awful and there are maggots around the center of the flower. Nasty!

edit: can't forget good ole' Huernia zebrina

Stapeliads may just be my favorite bloomers. So unique

All 3 buds on F. felina 'Super Warty' (photo posted yesterday) opened up today:

Adenium Obesum Red Champion. All the same bloom. The first three are from yesterday when it was in the process of opening. The last three I took today when I got home from work.

Tyler

I noticed my epiphyllum oxypelatum are setting flower buds for the first time! I'm so excited for it.

And my Hoya carnosa continues to set flower buds. They've bloomed all summer long in dappled shade.

While we're at it - my bougainvillea just won't stop blooming!

Aloe hybrid (Calling it Christmas Carol) rescued from a dying glue garden ... first blooms! :)

Does this strange looking growth mean my faucaria is about to bloom? I was just noticing it's super dry, I haven't watered it in a few weeks :O but ... blooming, maybe?

Hey bunkfree, check out Rina's most recent 2 posts above. Same plant?

Tyler

Looks like it is, Stewart. This is my first faucaria and I'm hoping this is an inflo and not etiolated growth (since moving it indoors) :)

It is going to boom - flowers last for long time, but will open only if sunny.Yysterday was partially cloudy whole day and flowers didn't open at all. If you want to see flowers, put them in lots of sun.

It's liking the south window, I guess! :)

I watered it today, and I see a peep of yellow; so hopefully after tonight's snow the forecast of sun all week will bring on a bloom. Eeeeee! :D