BajaBlanca
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Flowers flowers
I have had a number of plants flower over the last couple months.
The short lived queen of the desert has been flowering nonstop since June:
This is the cholla pelona and it is the first year it has flowered but it also has been showing off for months. If you have the Baja Plant guide, it
is shown on page 139. On the same page, to the right, is the casa rata plant, which I also have but which has never flowered.
This is one I have had for quite a while ! Once a year it puts on this show:
and this is a new one my friend Cyndi gave me - it is producing an offshoot. I think she told me it was a spineless cactus:
and this one has this small flower- I looked thru the Baja Plant Guide and did not see it. An ideas anyone?
Please post your flower photos folks!
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basautter
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Nice! Thanks for sharing
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chuckie
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Very nice! Desert flowers, and the smell of the desert right after a rain? Pretty special! Thanks Blanca...
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BajaGlenn
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Very nice THANKS!!!!
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Barry A.
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Spectacular, Blanca. Love those flowers.
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Now for the details. How often do you water each one?
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CaboMagic
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Such beauty!
that last one kind of looks like 'ice plant'
Thanks Blanca for posting them :-)
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Jana is getting the bug!
Saturday we had to buy some cacti.
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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BajaBlanca
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Oh how I love flowers and all my plants are such a part of me.
I try to water once a week or every 10 days, depending on how busy I am. It takes me over an hour at each between the B&B and our house. It
becomes a zen hour!
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Don Jorge
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Not Baja
but flowers yes.
Perennials and annuals in the flower bed. Delphiniums, Digitalis, Yarrow, Echinacea, Perovskia, Hemerocallis (Daylily), Big Red Hardy
Hibiscus, Liatrus, Marigolds, Sedums, Catnip, Geraniums and adding more every year.
Close up same bed
Benary Giant Zinnias, great cut flowers
Lisianthus, another great cut flower for the home.
Twilight
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do you feed your cactus something? yours seem to bloom more than mine
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BajaBlanca
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No, I don't add anything at all, but if you put them in loose dirt that lets the water go right through, they seem to like it. So, I have some in
sand and some in dirt. Shari, I remember your garden as being gorgeous!
The garden in the pic above is so beautiful! I bet it is loved by bees.
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