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Monday, April 13, 2009
Anticipation
Watching and waiting- seems I spend quite a bit of time pondering when this or that one will bloom. This little cactus is a Gymnocalycium stenopleurum. It "almost" opened up a few days ago, late in the afternoon. Then we had a couple days of rain and the blooms closed up tight again. Maybe today? It reminds me of the old Carly Simon song, "Anticipation- it's making me wait- its keeping me waiting"
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Those thorny thing can sometimes be very eye-catching.
Oh how wonderful these blooming beauties...
You have such treasures there, love seeing them.
Thank you and have a HCM!
HCM! Anticipation is keeping me waiting.....
Wow! The blossom seems great.
You are such a good observer and share its beauty with us through this beautiful documentation:)
HCM:)
I am lovin' this little cactus. It looks like chocolate with sugar blooms attached. Yummmmmm HCM
Very difficult...very sweet to watch! The bloom on top is lovely!! Your anticipation didn't go in vain...It's picture perfect!
HCM!
http://deepazworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/cactus-missy-on-go.html
Pretty pretty....lovely photos too.
HCM
Anticipation, indeed! It is surprising to see those pretty colored buds growing out of that brown spiky cactus. Happy Cactus Monday!
They are little wonders!
HCM!
beautiful! I love a bloomin cactus! hcm...
Sometimes you just wanna grab the little things by the root and yell "GET ON WITH IT, ALREADY!"
But no matter what you do, they're gonna take their own sweet time...
I thought of you last week when I went to our local greenhouse to buy another tiny cactus for my tiny little planter (one kicked the bucket over the winter). There was a huge selection of all sizes, but really nothing was over 2 feet tall (not counting the display table). It almost felt like a cactus zoo, after seeing all your wonderful plants in "the wild" in their natural state!
The buds on this cactus are so much prettier than the flowers with the light pink and green together on the stalk!!! I think so anyway! I wish it could just freeze in that budding spot forever!!!
Happy Cactus Monday!!!
Gymnocalycium cacti always have the prettiest flowers. It's hard for me to decide which genus I like better--Gymno or Echinopsis. I've only had one G. stenopleurum and that was years ago. It never bloomed, and then dried up.
Aiyana
Ah, beautiful!!
Belated HCM!
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