I managed to be home at the right time to catch these over the past few weeks. Echinocereus flowers are to me always a special treat, and I often miss them.








Enjoy CP

Oh, wow.

Echinocereus always strike me as quite a contrast - frequently rugged, weatherbeaten-looking plants with nasty spines, but with beautiful flowers. I understand a few species are cool-climate tolerant... CP, are there any varieties you'd recommend for a garden planting in Melbourne?

unbelievable!!!

they are awesome flowers... i am realy liking all these brilliant flowering cacti and these images you post are inspiring me in the direction i want my collection to go. i have a Notocactus uebelmannianus with what looks like big flower buds forming i cannot wait to see what they look like. they look like they are going to be big.

Really nice plants and flowers CP, congratulations. Thanks for sharing them.

Wow, fantastic colour CP. I especially like the top plant. Which species is this one?

Thanks friends,
Kanje, the first one is E. triglochidiatus... I always thought that it needed a cold dry winter to induce flowering, but this winter has been relatively mild temp wise, & it has been overcast and wet almost the entire winter, so humidity has been high too. This plant has not flowered for a few years even with what I thought were more 'favourable' conditions... it's mate on the other hand has no buds at all this year.

CP