The Cactus Sale Photos

Boy does lupy look happy or what!

I sure got everything I wanted this time and only spent $18.50 and was doing my happy dance. Of course I did see some that were on display that I wanted but they weren't for sale :{.
I know, I know, your thinking that I am being greedy....YOUR ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!! lol. I would love to have this plant

This is another one I wanted but it also was on display.

This is one I just gotta have.

You wouldn't go broke shopping here.

sounds like you got some wonderful plants at some wonderful prices!!!
Congratulations
Gayle

Gayle we sure did, I got a lot of living stones (I just love em) and a few others I didn't already have in my two cactus gardens.
Are you a cactus lover?

These are the ones I purchased

I really like this one, look at the plant growing out of the center, I think it's neat.

I don't think I've ever seen anything like that last one. What is it? It's very cool.

You got a kewl selection to add to your collections. Congratulations, now tell me how to grow the living rocks, I still can't keep these alive. Crasulady2

Heather this is a first for me, it's called a living stone and is a succulent.

The best way to grow them is the same way you do cactus and above all don't over water them. They need a bright sunny window if your growing them indoors. I will post a link here later to give more information. This link will give you a lot of information on how to care for these plants http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/PLANTS/index.html#http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/TRA/PLANTS/demogardens/Lithops.html

This is a great site for information http://www.lithops.info/en/cultivation.htm

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Great links and information! I'm always learning something here at Dave's, and that is a very interesting plant.

I also leaned more than what I knew about the plant. I always learn something new every day.

OK, you were right: that photo isn't terrible ;D

Ya gotta watch out for that sneaky Wind!!!! Blew her camera right past me without my knowing it! We had such a good time :)

Norma, I got 3 new Crassulas, gotta do some research to find out what kinds. Trials will be done at the Conservatory to test their winter hardiness under different protection schemes, I will be duplicating a couple of them in a protected microclimate here at my house. One of the members is a genius at propagating: he has thousands of spare plants, so plenty for experimentation!

The woman accepting the money from me is the Club Treasurer. You can (kind of) see the man right behind her; he is the one who is outstanding at growing unheard of plants from seed. The man in the far back in the black shirt is the one who writes the newsletter; he has written a couple of books on hardy cactus.

For anyone who has a club anywhere within reach, join it! You will be glad you did :)

Lupy since I don't know these people you can explain who they are in this photo

Another cactus for your enjoyment and another display item.
If this one was for sale I would have been on it so fast that the needles would have went flying all over the floor lol.

Wind, it sounds like you and Lupy had a great time. Was the guy from Out of Africa nursery there? At Inniswood Park's Affair of the Hort in September there are usually some of the cactus people selling neat plants. That is where my sister got her first lithops. They have really cute blooms.

NoH I have to let Lupy answer that question, since this was my first visit to the plant sale and I didn't really know a lot of the people there. I had met them breifly but couldn't tell you who's-who.

I have never seen them bloom so that's going to be an extra treat for me.

NoH, Out of Africa people weren't at the sale this year :( The club had been on a trip to the greenhouse a couple weeks ago, and the owners weren't sure if they could make it.

On the Saturday of the KY Roundup there is going to be a guided tour of the personal collection of the Cleveland Botanical Museum (I think). Since I can't be in both places at the same time, I have to miss out on that jaunt. Maybe next year!

Wind, when I went on Sunday to pick up my plants, I do wish you could have gone with me! A member brought in a cactus (unnamed) that had flowers that looked just like a brug! Big, tubular, pink, unbelieveable!!!!! I couldn't get close enough to know of they smelled, but looking like that, they didn't need it!

I wish I could have, I would have taken a picture, sounds lovely.

windsurfer, I do have one lonely living stone, of the spieces lampranthus. I just bought it this spring from shoal creek succulents. I have been told that they should be grown in stones, that was after i had already potted my in a cactus soil mixture. But mine seems to be doing ok that way.
I really enjoy succulents more than cactus, but these living stones are so fasinating, been told by more than one expert that they are a challenge to grow. I will start watering now that fall is here. Hope i don't kill my lonely little baby.

I got the surprise of my life today, while Lupy and I were looking at the garden she found one popping it's head out of the soil. I planted the seeds in june (I think) but didn't think that they would germinate.
At first glance I thought it was a stone but on closer inspection I found it was a living stone, I do hope it turns out to be Baby's Toes I don't have any of those yet.

what a nice surprise!!!