Not more CACTUS!

[Sparkle]

But even I have to admit these are a little different. These look like green roses.



How about Hen and Chickens on steroids?



Then up comes a flower stalk, on the same steroids obviously.



Finally it blooms.

[avalen]

we had some of those growing down the street where I work and after they bloomed
my friend picked off a couple of the....what looked like tiny dried plants, and she
planted them, yep, they grew.

[Bethers]

No idea their real name, but I call those tall ones "asparagus cactus".

[Cedar518]

More great pictures! Thanks, Sparkle.

[Echo]

Here ya go Sparkle!

If it's all over the place ya might as well make use of it. It's got to be better than pulling it out of the dogs feet!!!

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&c ... =0&ndsp=18

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Foo ... dible.aspx

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/ ... ekey=56276


Maybe you can lesson the cactus population? Hope you two are having awesome adventures!! Keep the pic coming.

[AlmostThere]

What a neat cacti plant! Thanks for sharing. Hope someone can find out it's name.

[Getupngo]

I could hardly see the cactus for the beautiful ocean view behind them .... sigh. They're gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

[Liz]

What Janice said...my eyes wandered to the background. Beautiful place.

[snowball]

went to check my trusty book and all it as is this corner of the world no
mexician plants but it looks like a AGAVE of some sort
loved the pictures was studying the cactas so much that when I read about the ocean
had to go back and look at the whole pictures!
sheila

[SeeyaGal]

The tall flowering agave plant is a Century plant, I had two in my yard when we moved here and the next door neighbor had two that just grew and bloomed. I have three in the front garden area that will grow the stalk ( and once it starts growing it grows rapidly) after it blooms it dies.

[AlmostThere]

I just did a search on the century plant and it's listed as being poison. The sap can cause allot of hurt to your skin. Interesting.

[mitch5252]

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Spanky, my curiosity is killing me - do you accidentally shoot level horizons, shoot them straight intentionally, or fix 'em later in PhotoShop?
I forget to think about it when shooting the picture and have to straighten it out after the fact.

Really cool pictures.

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[Sparkle]

Well Mitch, some of us are more skilled than others I believe. Besides, doesn't water always find its own level?

[mitch5252]

Besides, doesn't water always find its own level?

Yes, but your head doesn't.

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