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Holiday cactus in bloom - just in time!! View On Black
And we are going to get a lot of snow tomorrow - YAY!!!!
Imagine my surprise when I went outside tonight and went to the edge of the hill and saw all the cactus in bloom. Apparently, this has been going on for some time as there are dead blooms hanging off the cactus too. Cactus make the prettiest flowers. I once saw a Nat Geo program and they showed that bats love the night blooming cactus flowers. I guess they like the nectar in them.
A Strawberry Hedgehog cactus in bloom - Sonoran Desert, Yavapai County, Arizona
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In the Sonoran Desert, not far from Agua Caliente near Tucson, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert. It was a very hot day today.
The other morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see this Peniocereus cactus blooming for the very first time. As is the case, with a larger, night-blooming cousin elsewhere in my yard, it was history by the following morning.
In the Sonoran Desert, not far from Agua Caliente near Tucson, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert. It was a very hot day today.
Kingcup cactus in bloom - Small red flowers in bloom on a kingcup cactus in the Albuquerque foothills..
Echinocereus triglochidiatus, claretcup, Mojave mound cactus.
cactus in bloom at the Lake Mead visitor center in Boulder City Nevada
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I saw lots of cactus and other wildflowers in Big Bend National Park, but my favorite was the claret cup.
By itself, the cactus would be pretty boring... even for a cactus. It seems to me that it's a dull green with an uninteresting shape, less photogenic than a prickly pear or saguaro.
But those flowers are stunning... to me, anyway.
They're not that easy to find in Big Bend, as the claret cup (Echinocereus coccineus, for those who care) doesn't grow on the floor of the Chihuahuan Desert, but rather much higher, mainly in the Chisos Mountains.
One of the reasons I hiked the Lost Mine Trail was because I hoped to find this cactus in bloom. I did see a couple of them along the trail but they were shaded and not nearly as brilliant.
Luckily, these were out in the open (still under a cloudy sky however); seen on a slope at the end of the trail. Lost Mine is a great hike in any event, but this find made it a complete success for me.
South Texas had a lot of rain earlier this year. I have never seen the desert this lush and green before!
Shot using a Canon EOS 630 and Kodak Tri-X 400 film and then Scanned using a Canon R7 and a bellows negative copier system and a S-M-C Macro-Takumar 50mm f4 lens @f8
You know it's December when your Christmas cactus decides to bloom. (I'll ignore the fact that mine blooms several times a year . . . 😀 )
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In the Sonoran Desert, not far from Agua Caliente near Tucson, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert. It was a very hot day today.
(Mammillaria lasiacantha). Brewster County, Texas.
This was my first time seeing these diminutive, cryptic cactus in bloom. We found several in a variety of rocky habitats in Brewster and Pecos Counties.
There are two notable gardens in Walnut Creek, Heather Farm Rose Garden and Ruth Bancroft Garden.
Heather Farm (no "s" as so many locals like to say) was a place that I loved to go to 10-15 years ago for, not only roses, but all kinds of other flowers sprinkled around the grounds of this 110 year old recreation area. Heather Farm, what I started calling "The Swamp," has two very large ponds, and that's where in 2009-2011 and 2017-2019, I used to go for dragonflies and damselflies. Oh, and quite a few birds. Then came wildflowers and the 20 year drought. No water, no fish; no fish, no birds (to speak of).
And, so I returned to Ruth Bancroft in APril of this year. Now, you're up to date. Now, the Garden is going to seed, and I found only one cactus in bloom three days ago. BUT, there were three new flowers just on Friday and, come hell or high water or an eye that needs rest, I was going to capture those before they died. One was the Carrion flower, posted two days ago, Sharon came with me Saturday morning to get a shot of it, but as is the way of Carrion flowers, they bloom and died in three days. She missed. However, there are two more which should blossom this week.
Meanwhile, reaching back 11 years, I bring you a Sedum (Stonecrop) from somewhere at Heather Farm, but when I also photographed at RB Garden two and three months ago. There is no reason to darken the background since the "beans" are colorful and, when taken from above, the flowers pop against the background.
Sedum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, members of which are commonly known as stonecrops. The genus has been described as containing up to 600 species, subsequently reduced to 400–500. They are leaf succulents found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere, but extending into the southern hemisphere in Africa and South America.
The "jelly beans" are the parent plant's leaves, and out of the center of a cluster, you'll get a wonderful bunch of yellow flowers.
A family of Saguaro cactus in bloom, (north of Tucson Arizona with the Santa Catalina Mountains in the background) these giants are found only in the Sonoran Desert...grows to an average height of 30 feet can reach 50 feet...normally 75 years old and 15 feet tall before growing it's first arm-this green giant is the Arizona state flower.