Cactus collection

A collection of low-maintenance living sculptures

Today ’s exposure come from Josh in Virginia and show his ever growing assembling of cacti and other succulents .

His interest in cacti started with trying to find houseplants that his very rummy cats would leave behind alone . It has grown as he has found out more about this very diverse — and easy to care for — group of plant .

This tall cactus came without a label but is probably a species ofPilosocereus . It was only a couple of feet tall when Josh first buy it , and with good caution it has grow to most three time its original size . It spends the winters indoors by a sunny window , but during lovesome weather , it know outside where the warmth and abundant sun keep it maturate rapidly .

This gold barrelful cactus ( Echinocactus grusonii , Zones 9–11 ) will finally get quite big , but for now , it lives on a ledge by a gay window . The round basket echoes the form of the cactus . Because the basketball hoop would smash down if keep in contact with wet filth , the cactus is spring up in a plastic raft inside the field goal . look at the Golden Barrel Cactus plant templet here .

Cacti come in all shapes and sizes . Cereus forbesiiis a tall , columnar cactus from Argentina , but this chassis — Cereus forbesii ‘ Ming Thing’—is a monstrose selection , meaning that alternatively of growing up tall and minute , it uprise into this intricate , mounded shape .

It is n’t all cacti , as other succulents have joined the political party . This haworthia ( Howorthiasp . ) is grow in a interracial Mary Jane with cacti and supply a contrasting shape .

Aloe verais best known as a medicative plant , but it is a beautiful and well-to-do - to - farm succulent . This large works is growing with Angelina sedum ( Sedum rupestre‘Angelina ’ , Zones 5–9 ) . Once Robert Frost threatens , the aloe will move back inside as a house plant until leaping .

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