This little beauty showed up in the backyard today. I check on my plants about 50 times a day; each time I step out to have a smoke, OK, maybe a few more than 50!
This guy shows up over nite! The particular cactus this one comes along with (from) has been the same height since I put it where it now lives. I've often thought about how this plant is just stunted, but it stays green, and I still give it the daily love. Look at its "brother", planted the same time, about 8 foot tall. I call it Eli.
I'm hoping for some more from this part of our world. I'll keep you updated here. [As always, click on the pic for full size view.]
On morning two, the beauty opened. I suppose it was wide open all
nite. Before I took this picture there were about 30 or 40 what looked like little bees having a feast inside. Yesterday it looked all male, this morning, all feminine. I know
ya'll get flowers on your cactus all the time, this is our first, and we've had these guys about 4 years or so now. Yum.
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