What's Looking Good in June 2023

[pepper]

The flowers in the pics are incredible. I'm not use to seeing anything like that.

 

[zigs]

Do all those cacti that bloom produce fruit? There are small little ones that grow wild in Saskatchewan. I had no idea they grew in Canada until I was in my late twenties and traveled to Sask. The fruit was delicious made into jam.

The Opuntias with the flat pads produce fruit called the prickly pear, that's the thing Baloo the Bear was on about in the Jungle Book That was probably what you saw in Canadia, there are some hardy ones that can grow in the cold. I've got one that's been out in the snow for a few years. It's not growing as well as the one in the pic though.

The others produce seed pods that on the whole you wouldn't class as edible fruit, although the mice like some of them.

 

[zigs]

Echinopsis have started to flower

 

[Sheal]

I like the flowers on the Opuntia humifusa, they're quite delicate for a cactus.

 

[zigs]

I made a video of the Opuntia from it's winter sleep to flowering but I won't put it on this thread, it's on my Youtube

Tetter's Rambling Rector has gone off today...

 

[zigs]

Echinopsis crassicaulis has gone off too

 

[Sheal]

Chiastophyllum Oppositifolium - a little plant with a big name.

 

[pepper]

Chiastophyllum Oppositifolium - a little plant with a big name.

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I've never seen those before! Very interesting look the way they hang. Lovely

 

[Sheal]

Thank you Pepper. With the flower stalks they are no more than 1ft tall.

 

[pepper]

Thank you Pepper. With the flower stalks they are no more than 1ft tall.

They remind me a bit like Lilly of the Valley, one of my favorite flowers. I love flowers that hang like that. Reminds me of lanterns in a way, silly as that sounds.

 

[Sheal]

You may be able to buy them in your area but I suggest you look at nurseries/garden centres that sell rockery plants. They do self seed but aren't rampant and can be found growing in cracks in garden walls etc. - so pretty tough plants.

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

Sour cherries and strawberries for me.

 

[lifegardener]

Now you're talking @lifegardener

Eriosyce senilis


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Absolutely Beautiful!

 

[lifegardener]

Potted Hibiscus perking up:

 

[lifegardener]

Chiastophyllum Oppositifolium - a little plant with a big name.

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Kalencho

Purple flower...

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And a Chamaecereus silvestris, otherwise known as the Peanut Cactus

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Gorgeous! What is the rose variety?