"Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..

[Lesley Cox]

Totally ignoring that last post (which, even without any German is very funny), I'd like to refer back to the pictures of Stapelia hirsuta with the flies' eggs. I can just bear the thought of the eggs on the flowers but the thought of the pupae then the maggots crawling around the flowers, is utterly disgusting. What do you do about that Rudi?

I quite like the Orbea. Is that smelly as well? It looks as if it has been woven from threads and perhaps should be in the Craft Corner thread.

[angie]

Well that's disappointing I thought someone would translate to this half German me. Maybe it's to naughty 

Angie

[Hans J]

Angie ...I will try it :

"The Cactus man ( Homo individualisticus )
The cactus man does only what makes fun for him and he swim against the tide.
He is a rare example of his race and is threatened with extinction"

I hope it is understandable ...maybe Maggi can help with a better translation

Hans

[Gerdk]

sorry but I cant no resist 

Hans, I know you are gardening in a warmer area - but totally naked?

No problemes with the neighbours? 

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

sorry but I cant no resist 

Hans, I know you are gardening in a warmer area - but totally naked?

No problemes with the neighbours? 

Gerd

Gerd, I hear the neighbours are selling  tickets for the show! 


Angela, I would translate it only a little differently.... The Cactus Man does only what pleases him and is happy to swim against the tide. He's a rare specimen of his kind and is threatened with extinction.

[Hans J]

sorry but I cant no resist 

Hans, I know you are gardening in a warmer area - but totally naked?

No problemes with the neighbours? 

Gerd

Gerd : 

[Hans J]

sorry but I cant no resist 

Hans, I know you are gardening in a warmer area - but totally naked?

No problemes with the neighbours? 

Gerd

Gerd, I hear the neighbours are selling  tickets for the show! 


Angela, I would translate it only a little differently.... The Cactus Man does only what pleases him and is happy to swim against the tide. He's a rare specimen of his kind and is threatened with extinction.

Thank you Maggi !

[angie]

Thanks Maggi. Hate to think I was missing something.

sorry but I cant no resist 

Hans, I know you are gardening in a warmer area - but totally naked?

No problemes with the neighbours? 

Gerd

I am sure once on Gardeners World there was a couple that went around pruning their roses in the nude, can you imagine that,  its sore enough when you get a thorn in your finger  better say no more on this subject 

Angie 

[ranunculus]

Thanks Maggi. Hate to think I was missing something.

sorry but I cant no resist 

Hans, I know you are gardening in a warmer area - but totally naked?

No problemes with the neighbours? 

Gerd

I am sure once on Gardeners World there was a couple that went around pruning their roses in the nude, can you imagine that,  its sore enough when you get a thorn in your finger  better say no more on this subject 

Angie 

Too many potential jokes there, Angie ... !!!   

[angie]

Thanks Maggi. Hate to think I was missing something.

sorry but I cant no resist 

Hans, I know you are gardening in a warmer area - but totally naked?

No problemes with the neighbours? 

Gerd

I am sure once on Gardeners World there was a couple that went around pruning their roses in the nude, can you imagine that,  its sore enough when you get a thorn in your finger  better say no more on this subject 

Angie 

Too many potential jokes there, Angie ... !!!   

Exactly what I thought . 

[kelaidis]

Your conversations are very animated, but have wandered a bit..

I have just come back from a marvellous stint in Southern California, which is rife with spectacular succulent nurseries (literally hundreds), public gardens galore and some pretty snazzy private ones. Here are URL's from two pretty amazing gardens in San Diego that should be of interest to anyone on this thread: (they are posted as slide shows...the FOTKI logo only spins for a second or two so don't despair)...the shock from coming from these back to snowy Colorado is profound!

http://public.fotki.com/Panayoti/laurie-garden/?cmd=fs_slideshow


http://public.fotki.com/Panayoti/jim-bishop/?cmd=fs_slideshow

[ranunculus]

Excellent tours of two magnificent gardens, Panayoti ... and you are suitably home for Christmas.   

[TheOnionMan]

  Wow, such succulent tours!  Magnificent.  PK, I envy your trip; in the past when I travelled to San Diego area of California (Carlsbad), I had to work the whole time.

My favorite thing in the second slide show is the retaining wall built of bottom-end-out stacked wine bottles; dang... I could've had some impressive retaining walls by now

[Lesley Cox]

Amazing gardens and full of incredible plants only a few of which I recognize. Great love and imagination - and whimsey - have gone into their creation. I really enjoyed these shows even though they're not really my kind of plants. They're so right in that area and climate. My biggest surprise was to see people under umbrellas! At first, I really liked what seemed to be glazed tiles but I guess they were just wet.

[cohan]

A few recent images indoors here--
Mammillaria laui subducta which obligingly flowers over the winter indoors, without watering!
Eriospermum dregei  this is its first leaf with enations, and the first time its making a second leaf- progress!!
Ornithogalum unifoliatum (Penrock seed)- probably Albuca now, and not the usual succulent unifoliatum, but the several seedlings in the pot have kept me in flowers for months!