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Latest photos of cacti

  • Cacti in kitchen window 14th September 2021
    Balcony
  • Cactus - little garden
    Klahanie_
  • Flowering Monkey Tail.
    Stan510
  • Parodia crassigibbus
    Hywel

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We have 500 photos of cacti

These photos are from real gardens by real gardeners! Just click on one to start exploring in slideshow format, or you can browse 16 at a time.

  • Night Blooming Cereus
    Mikec
  • cacti flowering
    Islander
  • Cacti section
    Uma
  • Cactus bloom close up
    Milky
  • Saguaro Cactus (Carnegiea Gigantea) at Sunset
    Skippy5869
  • Flowering Argentinian cactus - Gymnocalycium baldiana
    Hywel
  • Its all in the ears..........
    Milky
  • Mammillaria schiedeana plumosa
    Hywel

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Gardeners' thoughts

Little stars or Christmas lights ...

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Since many members think the flowers on my epiphytic cactus look Christmassy I thought I'd write a blog about it ... It...

21 comments

hywel

7 Dec, 2021
Hywel

1,2,3 ...

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Parodia comarapana is a small cactus in my collection, which has bright orange flowers, and it has flowered this year … First...

12 comments

hywel

24 Aug, 2018
Hywel

Rhipsalis

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Not all cacti grow in arid places. Some grow as epiphytes on the branches of trees in the tropical forests of mid and south...

33 comments

hywel

19 Oct, 2016
Hywel

Half a Century of Friendship ! (Part Two)

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Part Two continued from previous blog ... a long story. A week before Christmas 1965, a man living up the road from us suddenly...

34 comments

hywel

15 Dec, 2015
Hywel

Resilient Cacti

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My cacti and succulents had to manage without any attention at all from August until the end of October, because of circumstances...

29 comments

hywel

30 Nov, 2015
Hywel

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Questions & advice on cacti

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growing cacti from seed?

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blah13

28 Sep, 2009
Blah13

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Cactus question

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wagger

10 Jun, 2009
Wagger

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