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Perfect summer day 🌡️ and a perfect hotosession with a Brazilian model called Parodia warasii. 📷🕶️📷🕶️📷

In nature, this species grows grows in rock cracks. 🤘🤘🤘

Just hanging out with as this Eriosyce welcomes Summer 2023... 😎🔥😎🔥😎

As my 88-year-old neighbour says, "I feel today is gonna be the best yet!" 🎵🎶🎵

Astorphytum myriostigma's flowers only last a few days. You have to wait at least three years before they show up.

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In this article I share which tools I find most useful for tending to my cacti collection. Most tools that I use was not intended for gardening but became standard equipment for my dad during 34 years that he grew cacti. 🧤🔪✂️
I stay open to learning about others tools that came in handy to cacti growers. 🌵🌵🌵

Essential gardening equipment - pricklylessons.com My prickly lesson Cacti are… well prickly. Having lived around them for the better part of my life, I guess by now, I must’ve gotten pricked over a thousand times. Even as I’m typing this, I’m doing it using nine fingers, as an hour ago I made a mess out of my left thumb trying

Thelocactus bicolor in all its glory 👑👑👑

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Propagating Aloe cultivar by leaf cuttings. Results amount to 30% success after 9 months.
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Only for the patient ones. 😎😎😎

Astrophytum myriostigma a.k.a. bishop's hat in bloom. Native to the highlands of northeastern and central Mexico. In its habitat, it flowers in early spring, so that their seeds can grow with summer rains. In cultivation, it flowers over summer.

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Agaves and aloes 🪴🪴🪴

Agaves are from the the Americas, Aloes are from Africa. Can you tell which is which?

When I was 11 my dad took my see a greenhouse of his Japanese friend. Although Honda (who was a general importer of Mitsubishi off all) married a Serb and moved here to Belgrade permanently, he still managed to get a lot of Asian hybrids, from Astros to Gymnos, Haworthias even. Boy, was his collection impressive! In Belgrade in the mid 90s almost every plant he owned was simply miraculous! Yet one glance at this Agave macroacantha plant, now 27 years ago, made me fall in love with it. Honda noticed this instand bond and gifted the plant to me, despite having just got it himself. Being a well-mannered kid, i was reluctant to take it first, but I simply could not take my eyes off of it.

And it's been with us since. ☺️

A few springs ago we were reckles when we're moving it out from hybernation, and it got a severe sunburn. 😔 It took a while for new growth to take over. And this year I can finally say my baby has recovered. Thank you, my gorgeos one, for your resilience. ❤

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