Twenty-two and nursing a gardening addiction in a little apartment while I figure out life. I prefer succulents and other weirdos of the plant world, but all plants are beautiful. Questions and comments are welcome. Suggestions are welcome if you have thought them through.
This perfectly ugly cactus, Ariocarpus fissuratus, won ‘Best in Show’ at the meeting of the local cactus and succulent society I went to.
Cactus and succulents in a container in my neighborhood.
Repotted tropicals and a prickly pear, all of which I bought a few weeks ago (along with the now-deceased lithops, and an air plant that’s not pictured here). I’m glad to have another stab at a schefflera, after the cuttings I took from my father’s kept dying. I’m tentatively identifying the prickly pear as Opuntia rufida, but I’m not really a cactus expert. I’m not sure what the little palmy thing is, but it’s so common that I’m assuming I’ll run across its name eventually.
I’m in the middle of repotting the library cactus! I nicked it a bit with my fingernails, so I’m going to leave it out for at least a few hours to let it heal. I’m glad to see this sign of life in it, though. Cactus blooooooood.
I’ve been working at one of the campus libraries this summer, and a senior (who presumably went home after graduation) left this on her study carrel. I’ve been watering it occasionally, and if it doesn’t disappear before we start cleaning off last year’s carrels, I’m going to adopt it. (I feel like it wouldn’t be happy dumped in the Lost & Found box.)
Something had seemed off about the flower (mainly that I couldn’t find any pictures to match it online), but I hadn’t really paid attention. Then, this evening, my hand brushed against it, and it felt… papery?
Then I realized that the flower hadn’t changed in the three weeks since I first saw it.
Then I looked closely at it, and realized it was glued on.
As we say on tumblr: adjkhtdcchgjjhesszfdxlnooooo why would you doooo thaaat?
Mamillaria carmenae in bloom at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Doesn’t it look fuzzy?
New mission. #mission #missionsantabarbara #santabarbara #succulent #succulentgarden (Taken with Instagram at Old Mission Santa Barbara)
Cactus and scarf decided that they want to be friends.
Shit, guys.
My Mammillaria elongata and its tiny, delicate flowers continue to be a source of fascination for me.
I found another way of getting a good picture of my plants—by standing on top of my bed :p
(You can also see the nice, repotted euphorbia and dorstenia in this picture. And the schefflera cutting, which isn’t dying!)
