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Great growth!

YES cut down the Magnolia!I had grown a bunch of engelmanii seedlings with that cross (and fragilis and macrorhiza) in mind. The seedlings persisted f...

How is it fair that you get 2 rounds of blooms on your cacti? Mine have just finished their first round (well the Echinocereus anyway)...P.S. Your nei...

Awesome!Mine will be open next weekend, and I hope to make some hybrids then (I have pollen from Pallida and rostrata, not to mention the recurv. x fi...

Yikes! Tim I may want some seed, but am also running out of room! I crossed some basilaris v. aurea (O. aurea) with a hardy phaeacantha that I have, a...

Cam- Stay tuned. I think they are native, and I think I have some further information on that. I still need to do a thorough investigation of the area...

That's a scary looking spider!No idea what is wrong.

Marcio- I have to ask- did you dehydrate the pollen before you put it in the freezer?

Ah yes. Opuntia polyacantha.. Native to Sask and Alberta, can be found as well in Manitoba, but probably not native. There are some interesting plants...

Jesse- Closest that I know of to you is at Lake of the Woods, same species as is found near my place, and similar habitat (i.e. rock outcrops). Do you...

Barb- The Kaladar cactus is VERY local, as I said only growing on rock outcrops. It was a mild day on my visit (21C) and even at that temperature the ...

Ryan- Sorry for the mislabel, it happens, all of the time. I did not mean to distract from the wonderful garden pics, but when I know a plant is misid...

Jim- How hardy is the plant?

Tim- There is also a filamentosa sending up a stalk... It is perhaps 1/2 as thick and will be (estimate) about 1/2 as tall.