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

[ruweiss]

Wow, thanks for showing us these fine plants, Mammillaria theresae is really
amazing, I must look for this outstanding plant.

[Maggi Young]

A trio of smart cactus  at an English show:
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10595.msg279109#msg279109

[FrazerHenderson]

Some of my alpine rebutia collection flowering in the glasshouse

    Rebutia krainziana
    Rebutia muscula
    Rebutia perplexa

[johnw]

Amazing to see such well-grown and clean Rebutias Frazer.  Mine are magnets for spider mites it seems.

Visited a friend in the Annapolis Valley last week  - a suuculent nut aside from other addictions.

johnw

[johnw]

And a few more of his plants:

[johnw]

And the week before I had a chance to pop in to the Rock Garden of the Nova Scotia Chapter of NARGS in Truro, NS.  Truro has one of the coldest winters in all of NS, when Halifax sees a December low of -2 or -3 they can be downto -17c or lower.  In the record winter of 1993 I think they appraoched -40c.  Have scads of pix of the whole garden; this was my first visit in 5 years and I was greatly impressed by the headway that has been made - hats off to Darwin, head gardener.

The Delosperma nubigerum Gold Nugget is the most dependable there as it tolerates wet winters.

[ranunculus]

Excellent.

[Maggi Young]

And the week before I had a chance to pop in to the Rock Garden of the Nova Scotia Chapter of NARGS in Truro, NS.  Truro has one of the coldest winters in all of NS, when Halifax sees a December low of -2 or -3 they can be down to -17c or lower.  In the record winter of 1993 I think they approached -40c.  Have scads of pix of the whole garden; this was my first visit in 5 years and I was greatly impressed by the headway that has been made - hats off to Darwin, head gardener.

The Delosperma nubigerum Gold Nugget is the most dependable there as it tolerates wet winters.

I think there will be many who are astonished that such plants can survive those temperatures!

[krisderaeymaeker]

Wow, thanks for showing us these fine plants, Mammillaria theresae is really
amazing, I must look for this outstanding plant.

Hi Rudi , maybe you can try Piltz Kakteeen .....

[K-D Keller]

Cacti flowers from June:

Cleistocactus ritteri
Cleistocactus strausii
Echinocereus rigidissimus var rubispinus
Mammillaria albicans
Gymnocalycium andreae two year old seedlings

Great Echinocereus triglochidiatus and E. polyacanthus Rudi my E. triglochidiatus has only one flower every year.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Nice K-D .
Here Acanthocalycium variiflorum in flower ....

[Roma]

Echinocereus pectinatus v. rubispinus
It produces one flower regularly every year.  Sometimes I miss it because it is on an upstairs windowsill and I don't go there except when watering plants.  I've been promising the poor thing a repot for years .  Maybe next year.
Monanthes muralis

[krisderaeymaeker]

Echinocereus pectinatus v. rubispinus
It produces one flower regularly every year.  Sometimes I miss it because it is on an upstairs windowsill and I don't go there except when watering plants.  I've been promising the poor thing a repot for years .  Maybe next year.
Monanthes muralis

The fact that you grow cacti surprise me Roma. It's certainly one of the best cacti with great flowers .
Here one from South America : Horridocactus horridus ssp. robusta .
I grew it from seed many years ago ...

[krisderaeymaeker]

Flowers are 10 cm wide ...........Helianthocereus grandiflorus .

[tozi]

Some photos from our collection. 
Adenium obesum
Turbinicarpus krainzianus var. minimus
Anacampseros baeseckii var. crinita
Crassula ausensis var. titanopsis
Gymnocactus viereckii