Wonderful flowers, Ycloh. Love the color!

Echinocereus scheeri var. gentryi (cucumber cactus). Took 15 years to bloom, but it was definitely worth the waiting.

Lobivia aurea

Lophophora williamsii

Matucana ??

Rebutia seedlings

Finally on both of these. First blooms on these types I’ve EVER been able to get. I’ve had both of these for about 2-3 years.

Tyler

Echinopsis subdenudata a few days ago:

Rebutia swobodae with black spines today:

Lepismaium cruicforme

The brown stems show my failure in watering over the winter.

Hatiora gaertneri

Hoodia... labeled gordonii when I bought it, but I'm thinking maybe pilifera

Euphorbia sapini

Rebutia steinmanii

NoID hooked mammillaria(not my phone, grandmother took the photo because i wasnt there when it happened)...

Stefan, that Rebutia is beautiful, with the lighter coloured ring around the flower.

Aztekium valdezii.

Epi of some sort. probably had a hybrid name years ago. Now just

just a pretty flower

Echinopsis ... probably oxygona.

Parodia sanguiniflora

Lobivia aurea has 3 more flowers. Guess last years repot did its job.

Gymnocalycium damsii

Chamaecereus silvestrii cv. violet

Synchronized blooming of Echinopsis subdenudata :)

lol, much more interesting than synchronized swimming!

Very nice aztekium, dinie.

Got a s.kamchatkum to bloom. Cutting was started rougly march this year.

the same mam from before. Was rather lazy when it comes to blooming...

My Desert Roses seem to be having a good year. I did notice a little bit of soft scale starting on the leaf midline of one plant. It seems to happen every year, but cleans off easily.

My double red plant -

This pink and white plant has perked up. I almost took it back for rot, but it turned out to be very thirsty.

This has been a rather sickly plant since I bought it 5 years ago. The leaves are mottled looking and a bit deformed. Last year it fought some rot. I repotted and pruned off the rot. This is the best it has ever flowered!

My white plants bloomed profusely the last 2 months. And now it looks like I have a nice seed pod!

Sedum kamtschaticum or Sedum selskianum:

Aztekium ritteri

Not a cactus or succulent... our resident snapping turtle laid her eggs in our driveway today (does this every year).

all done and heading back to the brook...

She's a good size one, I'd guess her shell is about 10" long. I'm not getting close enough to measure her :-)

Cryptocereus anthonyanus, or Selenicereus for the renamers

Ric Rac for the rest of us.

G.damsii

During early stages of opening. Noticed that gymnocalycium always opens in 2 phases, with inner and outer petals. Similar applies to baldanium and mihanovichi.

Wendy, do you do anything to help protect her eggs?

My husband usually puts stakes around where she lays her eggs, so we know not to drive over that spot. This year we're having a detached garage built, so, Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be able to keep trucks and such off of that area. Who doesn't need more snapping turtles in the world :-)

One year she laid her eggs next to our patio, and we saw the babies emerging, tiny inch long prehistoric creatures, exact replicas of their momma.

Didn't know snappers got as far up North as your area. We have large ones here in Pa and one occasionally lays her eggs in one of my flower beds, but the racoons generally get them. As a kid in Arkansas we had some monster ones as well as the 'Alligator Snapper' which is a totally different critter like some prehistoric monster.

Just had to google that. Wow, truly prehistoric! Look at the size of this thing...

o.k. now back to plants....

Kleinia petraea/Senecio jacobsenii with Adenium in the background

chuckerfly, Great shot. Those Kleinia get pretty big, like a small shrub size.

Dog, that man has no hands or feet and the Godzilla Snapper seems to be smiling.

And I didn't want to get close enough to measure our little guy, I mean gal!

Btw, nice red on your adeniums, Crenda!

A big surprise for me - blooming burro's tail:

That's really cute Rina. Never seen it before.

geo

I consider it "a success" haha. Never seen blooming burro's, only in photos. Assumed that plant has to be quite mature. This is small plant, grown from cutting (about 1 - 1.5yr old). Maybe it is sun it likes :)

Whole plant, in 4" pot:

I bought this bulb. It broke off. Oh well. Got more of them anyway...

ID please.

Semp bloomed.

Mammilaria crinita var monstrose

Peperomia prostrata

And here is Parodia mammlosis who opened just after I posted M. crinita monstrose.

Stefan, some kind of Crinum?

Beautiful work everyone. Very nice and thank you for taking the time to post on these threads like this. It makes me smile and gives me ideas for my next plant.

Rainbow hedgehog bloom about to open.

A quarter for perspective.

It looks like it may open tonight. Does anyone know if they open during the day or at night? I’ve never seen a bloom on these and don’t want to miss it.

And reposting this one again as now there are 5 blooms open.

I can’t recall who it was on this forum who shared their knowledge regarding phals needing exposure to a few weeks of cold weather in order to bloom. Crenda maybe...? Anyway THANK YOU!

Tyler

Echinocereus pectinatus

Echinocereus rigidissimus var. rubispinus

gdinieontarioz5 some kind of zephyranthes....

Found it yesterday afternoon

Charles & Neil thanks for answering my question. Are these single day blooms? I think I’ll dash home at lunch today!

Stewart

Mine is in the fourth day of blooming, still looks about the same. Embarrassing, I screwed up the picture when I posted it.

No worries Charles. Nice that it threw out multiple blooms at the same time for you. And thank you for the info on how long they last.

I went home at lunch to check the progress. It wasn’t a wasted trip, though not fully opened.

Same flower. Bright direct sun and in the shade.

Neil and Stewart, this is so exciting. I have two buds, and am waiting for my first ever bloom on one of these.

New delosperma blooms(hybrid)

Rebutia fulviseta(opened today)

This time the Adenium in front:

Progress update on the Kleinia:

Peperomia ferreyrae with the victim of the latest attack of the pigeons in the background:

Gymnocalycium saglionis

I love that peach colored flower.