Verna posted a photo of a flower that bloomed on our new cactus. When we planted the cactus, it had three flower buds on it.
Image: 3D Cactus Flowers. Click to enlarge.
Last night, the remaining two flowers opened up. This morning, I took a pair of photos this morning, hoping to make a 3D image of the flowers. This is the result.
Of course, you will need 3D glasses to view the red/cyan anaglyph. If you don’t have a pair of 3D glasses, you can view the 2D version here.
We planted a new cactus the other day, and this evening a flower opened up on it. To our surprise, this flower did not have the delicate fragrance of our California cereus cacti which are a different variety. Click on the image to enlarge.
We took a beavertail cactus cutting from the wash behind the new house and transplanted it to the rock and cactus garden by the RV drive a couple of weeks ago. Today, it produced its first magenta flower. Many more to come in the future, we hope. Click on the image to enlarge.
A week ago we bought a cereus cactus and brought it home. Today, we finally got it in the ground in front of the house. We are really looking forward to seeing the flowers bloom. Click on the blue play button for a slideshow of getting it into the ground.
We don’t actually have these cacti in our garden, but there are a couple of them near the RV pull through road and many more on the west and north sides of the property. You can see that they have formidable needles and that when the flowers open, you might not want to try and smell them. Click on the image to enlarge.
Tomorrow, there may be as many as ten of these beautiful ‘spring gold’ cactus orchids on this single epiphyllum plant. Click on the image to enlarge.
