Cactus highlights for 2006

Echinocactus texensis, Plant Delights Strain
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One year cold frame, this year in the open, at its glory in May

Echinopsis backbergii
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Flowering july 2005, has since wintered

Echinopsis aurea after one winter
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Echinopsis maximilliana after one winter
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The outer cuticle sustained damage but it recovered very rapidly in the spring

Echinocereus roetteri
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Flowered this year and last summer too. From New Mexico

Trichocereus, unknown hybrid
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One winter in the cold frame, last winter outdoors. Probably has huascha blood.

Escobaria orcuttii and Escobaria nelliae
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Two New Mexican mamms after their first winter. Orcuttii blooms for a long time