Owcho and Friends

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Aah, didn't know that, ta

We'll have another look when the flowers open

 

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Owcho and babies are doing fine after winter

 

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Collection has got somewhat bigger than this time last year

 

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Moved them all into the potting shed for the summer

 

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The mammillaria gracilis fragilis has started to flower. Never seen so many buds on one.

Something very odd, one of Owcho's babies has developed a flower bud

 

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Put a bench outside to put the flowering ones on for pollination.

 

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Got 3 new additions in the post

Mammillaria elongata, Mammillaria spinosissima, known as the "red-headed Irishman" and Mammillaria boolii.

 

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One of the Chamaecereus silvestrii has come into flower

 

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Got 3 different coloured flowers on the Mammillaria glassii

 

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Mammillaria bocasana or Powder puff Cactus.

 

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Mammillaria zeilmanniana

 

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Carpobrotus edulis

One of these can cover an entire cliff

 

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Lovely flowers Zigs.