I'd like to pay tribute to my lovely collaborator Bowery, the eye behind this shot. He's the technical genius and it really takes two of us to operate a camera to best advantage; he is the geek nazi and I am the composition diva. I'm also a cactus freak with a large collection of aloes and cacti proper and he is constantly sloping amongst them clicking away and muttering profanities as he is spiked or somehow abraded. I will be posting pictures of the plants from my collection and discussing their cultivation etc; down here we are at the edge of what is possible outdoors regarding many species and I hope my experiences and failures will help inform what is a large and diverse succulent-fancying community, particularly novices like moi.
This echinocereus species is moderately common in cultivation and I find it hardy, unfussy and rewarding, though at the moment my own long-suffering 'chino is besieged by mealy bugs after a long, warm summer and autumn. And being placed next to a mealy typhoid mary in the shape of a ferocactus who will remain nameless. I just manually squish mealy bugs to the best of my ability and hope for the best, but as my collection grows I foresee them becoming a serious pest. If anyone has nontoxic suggestions for dealing with them, I'm all ears.
This echinocereus species is moderately common in cultivation and I find it hardy, unfussy and rewarding, though at the moment my own long-suffering 'chino is besieged by mealy bugs after a long, warm summer and autumn. And being placed next to a mealy typhoid mary in the shape of a ferocactus who will remain nameless. I just manually squish mealy bugs to the best of my ability and hope for the best, but as my collection grows I foresee them becoming a serious pest. If anyone has nontoxic suggestions for dealing with them, I'm all ears.
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