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Tuesday October 28, 2008
Cactus Garden Update
The cactus garden I created this summer around WP668, our backyard caboose, is flourishing. It has rained only very briefly in San Jose, California the last six months. Once the rain starts again, I will see how the new planting beds settle in. For now, everyone seems very happy.
This summer, the Silver Torch (Cleistocactus Strausii) lost one of its three spires to rot but the big spire now has a fuzzy white baby. The babies around the Argentine Giant Cordon (Trichocereus Candicans, Echinopsis) have about doubled in size since I planted them in April. The blue and pink Bunny Ears (Opuntia Microdasys) I bought in August looks good against the big boulder; I hope no one will touch it there. Bunny Ears dropped so many glochids (tiny invasive spines) during planting that I had to throw away the gloves I used. It took a week for all of the glochids to work their way out of my skin - yuk! No new growth on the bigger cactuses Boris and Natasha but I hope they will perk up after it rains. Boris is a Golden Barrel Cactus or Echinocactus grusonii. Natasha is an Argentine Saguaro or Trichocereus Terscheckii. Photos:
Cactus bed
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WP668 Caboose and Cactus bed
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Last Aloe Bloom
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Argentine Giant Cordon
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Silver Torch baby
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Bunny Ears
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Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson
Posted at 09:38AM Oct 28, 2008 by katysblog in News & Reviews |
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