Cactus Blog

I highly recommend clicking the photo to see the full sized photo.

Yay!

Spooning amongst slugs- photographic evidence.

Have you noticed how most cactus cartoons aren’t funny? I wonder why that is. Maybe the desert makes for dry humor.

I think the picture says everything. I don’t really need to add a comment, do I? No, I don’t, but I will after the photo.

Moss bathmat! Moss! it’s a bathmat! Oh, the humanity.

(moss)

Here are some fruity pictures from around the webosphere.

Ferocactus acanthodes Photo from Cactus Art

Ferocactus cylindraceus Photo from Bird and Hike

Ferocactus wislizeni Photo from Cacti Guide

Ferocactus macrodiscus Photo from Cactus Art

Sedum lineare

Well that didn’t last long. We’ve sold through our entire first crop of this cute green stonecrop in 2 weeks. We’ll have more hopefully next month. Maybe we should have planned to have more to begin with?

Aloe “hercules” and Yucca elephantipes and Cereus cv monstrose.

These are actually prickly pear flavored! Or available in mixed flavors. You need to buy in packs of 30, though.

I must say, it’s a dream come true. Now should I order 30, or go for 60?

I especially liked the drunk ocelot at the end. via digby

It’s on the DIY network, if you get that. A show called Bath Crashers where they renovate bathrooms. I blogged the shoot here. Here’s the info on when it will air. I’ll remind you right before the 20th.

Floating Waterfall Tub

September 20, 2010
9:00 PM e/p

This bathroom transformation makes its way outdoors! What was once a dark bathroom with Seventies lava rock in the tub room, dated dark floors and golden swan fixtures gets completely gutted and is opened up by taking advantage of an unused courtyard and incorporating it into this bathroom revamp! The outdoor floating tub is the main event in this “crash!” The crew takes advantage of some outdoor real estate and opens the shower room into a garden tub room, where they set the freestanding tub in a shallow pond and create a serene waterfall that cascades behind it! Throw in a ceiling mount tub filler, modern privacy panels and slate pavestones and these homeowners are blown away!

Here’s a picture of the host, who designs and renovates the bathrooms on TV.

The last time Cactus Jungle got product on TV was almost 3 years ago!

I wonder what you get if you google “cactus” and skip ahead to the 100th page?

It only seems to go up to page 88!

Well, here is what I found. Your results may vary.

Cactus Eyed Joe hasn’t blogged in over 2 years.

It’s been a year and half since Cactus Annie blogged.

And Healthy Ashley has a Cereus that bloomed last month. Nice!

It does appear that random blogs make it at the end of the search. I wonder where cactus blog makes it?

Easy Cactus sells cactus throughout England and the EU, by post. The prices look reasonable. The selection is odd, random even. And they also sell live mealworms. Odd, but true. They sell cactus and carnivorous plants and orchids and live mealworms. Check it out if you live across the pond.

They have a survey of your favorite cactus, and the winner is…. not a cactus at all!

They also keep older latin names, not having updated in what appears to be decades. For instance, here’s a lovely Echinopsis backebergii they offer for sale under the name Lobivia wrightiana.

Shocking.

A Cereus cv monstrose getting ready to bloom.

The original Basketball Jones

We’ve been calling this Trichodiadema decorum, mostly because it really really looks like that. See:

Until you see the blooms of course, and now that the plant at the top is starting to bloom, we very quickly realized that it is not Trichodiadema decorum, nor even a mesemb of any kind.

It’s Crassula mesembryanthemoides! I assume this means we were not the first ones to be fooled. I’ll post flower pictures after they’re open, any day now…

Crassula nudicaulis var. platyphylla

Here is a beautiful tray of crassula just about to be broken apart and planted up for you. But I thought it was so nice and green and bloomful that I had to share.

This is from South Africa, so it probably has a South African common name, if I can find it. But alas, google has failed me. I will have to come up with my own common name for this lovely plant.

I shall call it the Fringleberry Jade. I’ll bet by tomorrow if you google for Fringleberry Jade, this post will come up.

I see my local fast food Chinese is serving aloe drinks.

While looking up my most popular blog entry yesterday, I also went ahead and looked up what plant on the Cactus Jungle site has the most hits.

It’s this one.

I wonder why?