Quote Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Ooh dragonrider I love zygo type cacti. I have one epi that has never flowered, and a small collection of colorful zygos.
Here's a few standouts from my flower garden!
Nice roses, Stinky! My wife is a big fan of roses, but since we redid the yard we don't have as many as we used to. We've got a couple of "Double Delight," and we have some smaller landscape roses, "Little Sizzler" and "Popcorn."

I grew up in San Diego and my parents always had a lot of different cacti. Most of those that I have came from cuttings from their plants. My epis finally bloomed fairly well this year, and I've decided that maybe they need more sun than I have been giving them. The branches with the blooms were mostly those that have grown long enough to reach out under the eaves and get a tiny bit more sun.

So all this talk has inspired me to get out my camera. These shots are from today. Here are a couple of my roses. The large one is "Double Delight," and the small spray of white flowers is "Popcorn."

Here is a shot of the cactus with the buds about to bloom --- it has a lot of buds this year and the one on the top left is just begining to peek open. Now I have to start the vigil --- it could actually bloom tonight or tomorow and be gone in less than a day.

The plant under the cactus is the eaisst thing in the world in this area, almost a weed. It's a Mexican evening primrose, and I put in a close up of it.

And I added a close up of a lavatera, a tree mallow called "Red Rum." A great plant for this area, very drought tolerant.