Flowering in the garden.

Some of the things flowering in the garden the last couple of months.

Cacti Flowers

There were over 80 flowers on our cacti out the front this year, late January.

Cacti

Years ago I started collecting cacti. They were an ideal plant to have with our climate and I loved them, so many shapes and verities. Unfortunately I they were heavily infested with mealy bug at one stage and I could not control these pests without some really harsh chemicals, so I lost quite a few. Some have survived though and I am just now getting back to these poor neglected plants.
I have had some nice surprises in amongst these, finding some I thought lost.
Here are some that are coming into flower now.

Plus those that I have started to repot.

Except for the one in the yellow pot. That is a tree. LOL.

Cacti Explosion

Some of my favorite things in the garden are my cacti. I used to have quite a collection of them in pots. Unfortunately a large infestation of mealybugs decimated a lot of them. I still have a few and some were saved by planting them in the garden, where the mealybugs were more exposed to predators.

One of these has proved to be truly spectacular. From one small plant in a pot I got five very tall plants.

We had a very good winter here and they are absolutely covered with buds.

And just before Christmas the first of them opened.

I have more in the garden but none have been as dramatic as this one. Kind of gets me enthused about my prickly friends again.