Little pink blooms on this friendship plant.

Adding these abominations to your #BloomScrolling

I bet you didn’t know I was a stripper.

Lots of flowers on this streptocarpus 💜

Little 🐝🐝 in a 🌹

First pumpkin of the season: a Blue Jarrahdale that volunteered from last year’s planting.

it's been a good week for cactus flowers despite the hot weather. Chamaelobivia 'Lincoln Crown' #cactus #chamaelobivia #echinopsis #plantsky #cacti

First tomatoes of the season! 🍅🍅🍅

Remembering Alan Turing this Pride Month: a brilliant mathematician who helped defeat fascism and shape modern computing, then was persecuted by his own government for being gay. Pride is celebration, but it is also remembrance. 🏳️‍🌈

A first-time bloom to brighten the timeline. Hope everyone is having a good Friday! 🌵

This week I watched Storm Center (1956), starring Bette Davis as a librarian who refuses to remove a book about communism from the library. It’s interesting how often history repeats itself. I wish we were better at learning from the past and the lessons previous generations already learned.

Think pink!

Apparently Gerbera daisies come in extra large now. #BloomScrolling

Quite the showstopper. And the flowers aren’t bad either. 😏

A few blooms from the #cactus collection today. #PlantSky #BloomScrolling

Here are this years cactus and succulent seedlings 🌱

Happy summer solstice! The red orchid cactus is going absolutely bonkers. 🌱🪴

This is what a wild California native rose looks like. It’s remarkable how far centuries of plant breeding have taken the rose.

Not every cactus needs spines to make an impression. This is the spineless form of Mammillaria polythele in bloom.

😮🌵 #Pareidolia #Iseefaces #FacesInThings #FacesInPlaces #ThingsWithFaces #Ostrich #Cactus

I’m not very experienced with grafting, but here’s a Gymnocalycium I successfully grafted onto a Pilosocereus a couple of years ago. I love the flowers.

Second day of #cactus #blooms #flowers

From the cactus garden today. 97°F / 36°C and still blooming.

It’s a boy! 👦 #BloomScrolling #PlantSky #Xeriscape

From the #cactus shelf today.

I love the contrast between cactus flowers and the tough little plants they come from.

I’ve been watching old movies lately, and of course I couldn’t help noticing this enormous Monstera in this scene from All About Eve.

The cactus are now giving me an embarrassment of riches.

I love how the fruit on some cacti can be just as decorative as the flowers.

Male Valley carpenter bee Big, chunky, golden/honey-colored, very fuzzy, often with pale greenish eyes. Males cannot sting. The female of the same species looks totally different: large, shiny black, with smoky/metallic wings. They are among California’s largest bees.

Grew these Livingstone daisies from seed this year and they’re just starting to bloom. I’m new to this plant, but the colors are already making a very strong first impression.

I thought I was growing cacti, but apparently I’m also providing lizard housing.

A friend of a friend heard I like unusual plants and shared these shark fin melon seeds with me. They came from China, and now they’re starting to wake up. The name comes from the cooked flesh, which separates into delicate strands used in plant-based shark fin-style soup.

My bromeliad terrarium is looking especially lush right now.

Indoor lightning ⚡️

If cacti tried to cram any more pigment into their flowers surely there would be some kind of explosion. 🌱🪴

Adding a couple cultivars of California Fuchsia to the garden today: sierra sunset and summer snow. #NewPlant #PlantSky #Xeriscaping

𝕋𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕤𝕚𝕒 𝕥𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞 𝔼𝕔𝕦𝕒𝕕𝕠𝕣 : My favorite air-plant. 💚🌱 #plants #succulents #plantphotography #photography #iphonephotography #bloomscrolling #airplants #tillandsia

New plant for the collection: Tillandsia stricta Alto Posting these partly so future me remembers the names 😅 #NewPlant #PlantSky

A few nasturtiums come back in this same spot every year. They look glorious now, but they’ll fizzle out once the summer heat arrives.

I was thinking this might finally be the week I repot these peyote cacti. Then the next time I checked, a couple were blooming. Someday I’ll do it. #BloomScrolling #Cactus #PlantSky

Self portrait in desert snow.

For vining crops like squash, pumpkins, and melons, I like starting seeds in paper pots so they can be planted out with less root disturbance later. Bonus: they’re free if you make your own.

Past peak bloom, but this cactus shelf still has plenty of color.

Not the flashiest cactus flowers in the garden, but the bees seem to like them 🐝🌵 #BloomScrolling #Cactus #PlantSky

I made donuts this morning for Sunday Breakfast 🍩

Streptocarpus ‘Laurize’ is having a very good bloom moment. #BloomScrolling #Gesneriad

A few cacti in bloom today. #BloomScrolling #Cactus #PlantSky

A little too much bloom, a little too much wind, and not quite enough wood strength.

Sneaking in this Mammillaria zeilmanniana for #MagentaMonday before it’s too late. #BloomScrolling #Cactus #PlantSky