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It took some time this year!!

The Sukkulenten Sammlung Zürich opened on June 22nd, 2023 in the evening for visitors to admire the spectacular flowers of the ‘queen of the night’. Each flower only opens for one night and is withered the next morning. On that evening we saw a total number of eighteen flowers.

This cactus has lovely yellow, hair-like spines with magenta flowers. It grows on stone slopes in Bolivia. Really beautiful when blooming!

Finally my two echinocerus cacti are blooming today. The flowers open early evening and only last one day, but new buds are already developing. Over the whole year around 60-70 flowers. Really beautiful!

Opuntias are winter hardy and are particularly resistant to frost and humidity. You need to keep them in a dry place during the winter to ensure beautiful flowering in spring. These species can withstand -20 degrees celsius in the dry

You should plan new cuttings in late spring when the temperature is consistently above 20 degrees celsius. You can put them in soil (1/3 gravel or coarse sand, 1/3 potting soil and 1/3 garden soil), then you wait one week for watering. Watering during winter would kill them! Roots will appear as soon as temperatures go up.

Please share with me details about your cactus collection. I would be very interested to hear from you!