Post pictures from your yard today

[Fairview]

Man, this getting older gig is rough. ONLY took me 3 hours to dry stack that little stretch, empty 2 bags of growers mix and plant 4 plants.

Is that myrtle spurge new to you or have you grown it here a while? Curious how it does here.

The nursery has a plant that extends 2' from the center in all directions. Does well for them. Considered to be xeric. First year for me.

Going out there this Friday. I'll take a pic. It's impressive.

[Meangreen94z]

A shot of my Chihuahuan Desert garden. The palm is Brahea dulcis
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Tall yuccas and palms that go in - do they not need to be staked up? Seems like I always see them with a relatively small root ball/pot size.

Atleast here I buried the bases surrounded with large limestone rocks.

[Fairview]

Gonna be a Tylenol sort of night I think. Got these two thompsons planted ahead of Thursday's forecasted storm.

I was happy to find these two at an established new to me local nursery. I was thrilled to find two multi heads of similar size at the same time. When I went to plant them today, one is a triple head and the other is a quad. They sure were heavy and prickly when I bear hugged them into the hole.

@nsp88 with up to 60mph winds forecasted tomorrow you bet a staked them in. Hossing them around was enough the first time.

[Meangreen94z]

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[Fairview]

That's nice @Meangreen94z

[Gafoto]

That neomexicana on the left has some gorgeous teeth. That garden is going to fill in and look great in very short order.

[nsp88]

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Is that blooming cactus Echinocereus coccineus var. gurneyi?

And is that the same as this photo someone from central Texas posted on FB?

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I am in love with the blooms on both.

[Gafoto]

Those are going to put on a show. To give you comparison of seasons, our local Echinocereus blooms peak in early May, a fully month after those look like they get going.

[Meangreen94z]

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Is that blooming cactus Echinocereus coccineus var. gurneyi?

And is that the same as this photo someone from central Texas posted on FB?
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I am in love with the blooms on both.

The local species in Central Texas is Echinocereus coccineus var. roemeri, which is a smaller variant. The species I have are a mixture of those and var. paucispinus.

[rz14qv]

Austin, Texas

[nsp88]

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Is that blooming cactus Echinocereus coccineus var. gurneyi?

And is that the same as this photo someone from central Texas posted on FB?
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I am in love with the blooms on both.

The local species in Central Texas is Echinocereus coccineus var. roemeri, which is a smaller variant. The species I have are a mixture of those and var. paucispinus.

Ah, okay, thanks!

[Gafoto]

Planted some things in the park strip yesterday in-between showers. It’s been absurdly yo yo with the weather this spring. Feels like it swings from showers to sun every other day.

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Amended the soil last fall and had a surprising number if things do well over the winter. Still need to wait to see if I lose any other plants and see how much I can shoehorn in.

The little corner closest to me is basically an icebox in the winter and gets zero direct sun for 1-2 months in mid-winter due to the house and fence. Starting with more tolerant yucca and then eventually I’ll try some extra hardy Agave there.

[Meangreen94z]

I didn’t take many pictures this weekend, but here’s a few. San Marcos Growers showed Acacia cultriformis didn’t take damage at 18°F, so I will give it a try.

Acacia cultriformis

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Opuntia azurea

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Orange flowered opuntia

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[Meangreen94z]

Native Leucaena retusa

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Gymnocalycium saglionis

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Gymnocalycium saglionis

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Gymnocalycium saglionis

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Young tarantula

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Escobaria vivipara

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Echinocereus pentalophus

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Echinocereus pentalophus

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Echinocereus pentalophus

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Hesperaloe campanulata

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[westfork]

A raised bed slowly expands around a big boulder as we wait for spring.

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[Meangreen94z]

Opuntia azurea

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Opuntia azurea

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Opuntia hybrid

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[Bananaguy]

Mean, crazy spines on that azurea! I like that haha.

[nsp88]

Hesperaloe campanulata

Ah that is beautiful! Adding this to my long list lol

[westfork]

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Beautiful - You are way ahead of us. The blooms are just starting to form on our pediocactus which are the first to flower in spring.

[Meangreen94z]

Echinopsis hybrid

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[Fairview]

I didn’t take many pictures this weekend, but here’s a few. San Marcos Growers showed Acacia cultriformis didn’t take damage at 18°F, so I will give it a try.
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Do you think the Hesperaloe funifera Little Giant is the same as Hesperaloe campanulata?

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[Meangreen94z]

I didn’t take many pictures this weekend, but here’s a few. San Marcos Growers showed Acacia cultriformis didn’t take damage at 18°F, so I will give it a try.
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Do you think the Hesperaloe funifera Little Giant is the same as Hesperaloe campanulata?

https://www.civanogrowers.com/products/ ... t'-pp35283

Hesperaloe campanulata is a naturally occurring species from Mexico. Hesperaloe ‘Little Giant’ is a man made hybrid of parviflora x funifera. There are a quite a few natural species of Hesperaloe. 95% of what you see in cultivation is parviflora

[Melt in the Sun]

It does end up looking pretty similar to H. campanulata, at least from the few pictures shown. H. parviflora x funifera would be a pretty easy hybrid to make since both its parents are very common landscape plants. Greg Starr sells, or at least used to sell, H. campanulata - I had one and it ended up looking essentially like a 50% larger parviflora.

[Meangreen94z]

It does end up looking pretty similar to H. campanulata, at least from the few pictures shown. H. parviflora x funifera would be a pretty easy hybrid to make since both its parents are very common landscape plants. Greg Starr sells, or at least used to sell, H. campanulata - I had one and it ended up looking essentially like a 50% larger parviflora.

Yeah, it’s splitting hairs when it comes to most species and hybrids of Hesperaloe. funifera and tenuifolia are distinct , the difference in the rest are mostly flower color, shape, and time( nocturna ) .

[Meangreen94z]

More Echinopsis hybrids

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