Tea? (Part 1)

[wafflycat]

I am in Earth Mother mode.... I put a net curtain on my lawn today... Hyacinth Bucket is my heroine

 

[Milo]

I managed to last to 6pm before I got dressed today must be my own personal record.

 

[tdr1nka]

A net curtain on your lawn? Is that to stop the neighbours looking at it?

 

[longers]

I managed to last to 6pm before I got dressed today must be my own personal record.

you been posting on here, naked?

 

[wafflycat]

A net curtain on your lawn? Is that to stop the neighbours looking at it?

It's to stop Marble from digging up and peeing on my lettuce seedings! I've done a makeshift cloche!

One of my other cacti...

 

[wafflycat]

you been posting on here, naked?

I've come over all unnecessary...

 

[tdr1nka]

Have no fear, I have a handkerchif and smelling salts to hand Madam, for swoonage or attacks of the vapors...

 

[Milo]

No just not properly attired bit of a pants and lay in bed day.
To muggy for the bike.
Did do a mild bit of revision though.

 

[jonesy]

Oooh, I'll have a cuppa please.

One of my spikey things is in bloom. Spikey things are one of the few items of vegetation I manage not to kill off...
...

This one has a very strong scent: similar to a lily.

Echinopsis?

 

[tdr1nka]

Echinopsis?

Bless you!
*gets out handkerchif, again*

 

[longers]

I've got a spiky thing in flower at the mo'.

But I seem to have killed my Christmas cactus .

 

[wafflycat]

Echinopsis?

Haven't a clue. It's green, squat (but not a barrel, more a stubby column) with various similar coming off it, well-spaced vertical lines of small spikes, and every year it delights me with many a large, pink, short-lived, heavily scented bloom.

 

[wafflycat]

I've got a spiky thing in flower at the mo'.

But I seem to have killed my Christmas cactus .

That's pretty.

I've got some that touch the roof of the utility room... from the top of pot to top of plant, they're as tall as a man.

 

[jonesy]

I've got a spiky thing in flower at the mo'.

I'm pretty sure this one is Rebutia. I've got several- they flower very easily and produce little seeds that often germinate the following year.

 

[jonesy]

Haven't a clue. It's green, squat (but not a barrel, more a stubby column) with various similar coming off it, well-spaced vertical lines of small spikes, and every year it delights me with many a large, pink, short-lived, heavily scented bloom.

I think it is echinopsis then. There are a lot of species, but they have long tubular, short lived flowers.