Today I want to share with you some pictures of my garden plants, and a couple more pictures that do not belong to my garden but are in a public park and that for different reasons I had forgotten to share with you, so let's start.
Let's start with the plants that are not from my garden, I think last year, or two years ago I don't really remember at the moment, I shared some pictures of this site, at that time these agaves were smaller and my knowledge was quite limited so I didn't talk much about it, yesterday I visited the park and remembered their location, so I went to them and took the following two pictures, to be honest I still don't know the exact genus and if we look on the internet we will realize that there are more than 200 species of agave, so it will take me a while to identify them correctly.
Actually I think this agave is called Agave attenuata but as I say I have to keep investigating, the other one has a similar color to the Agave potatorum, although it has a much larger size, however agaves belong to the family of Agavaceae and have interesting characteristics that make them a succulent of great size and use, since from many of them we can get products that make our lives happier, and yes I mean tequila haha, what I am surprised about and is the reason for sharing the pictures, is that being a plant that requires not too much water (being a succulent) I am very surprised to see the agaves at the side of the lake, it is true that they are 3 feet above the water level at this moment, but when the rainy season starts the level is 2 feet, that would lead me to think that they would be receiving more water than they really need, but their color and size indicate me that they are in the right place.
Having said that let's go back to my garden because the time has come to share a couple of pictures of my echeveria chroma, these plants I got them as cuttings and they have grown quite well in my garden, I like their color and I think I should start taking better care of them because the truth is I treat them as if I wanted to kill them, I don't give them fertilizer, I drop water on them, something you can see in those little marks on the leaves, but well the wild method has worked and the plants keep growing.
Another one of my rebutia muscula started to give flowers, and I have decided to let nature do its job, if the pollinators make these cacti give me seed again it will be fine, and if they don't give seeds too, the truth is that I am still suffering for space so this year I don't think I will sow many seeds, only some that really interest me and this is not one of them, I have about 20 small cacti from the previous seed harvest, so that's enough for my collection.
This mammillaria gracilis does not stop giving seeds, and the truth is that I think it looks pretty with its fruits on it, I have already sown some of the seeds and few were born, I guess it has to do with genetics and the fact that it is better to have two specimens for pollination, the truth is that I will not continue sowing seeds of this species, the two pots I have are enough for me.
This one always looks the same, there's not much to say about it.
The lobivia keeps on blooming, I need the red one to do so too because I do want to sow seeds from these.
Another one that I have also decided that I will sow will be these seeds of the mammillaria nivosa, as you can see it is almost time to harvest the seeds, the color of the fruit is perfect and I think I will make a video when I harvest them, by the way that makes me remember that I owe a couple of videos to @ewkaw, I have not forgotten them completely.
Another cactus that I also think I will look to sow seeds (when I can have my own) is this gymnocalycium ragonesei, as I mentioned before I only have one, my friend Fernando also has one and I will try to pollinate them when they flower, although I am also interested in getting a couple more for my garden.
We have arrived at the moment in which I will share with you one of my experiments, and I say it this way because several months ago I showed you the photo of this graft, the graft was made in the first days of being born, I believe that on the second day I need to review the post, well I didn't find the post of when I made the graft, instead I found one in which I mention that the scion was 3 days old, you can check it out in this post, now what follows will be to take the cactus down to its own roots something I have never done with grafted cactus, I have rooted broken cactus or cuttings, but not the grafted ones and it is something I want to do to have experience for when I take down Astrophytum grafts, it is a good business to graft them when they are small and let them grow and then take them down to root and again they have their aesthetic and natural aspect, I think it is a good plan.
Finally a succulent that I know I have mislabeled, it has become my habit to look for the name when I need it haha, but as you can see it has grown a lot, so much that it went sideways but that did not matter to me because as you can see new shoots are coming out and that's good, more plants for more pots, that would be all for the moment, thanks for visiting the post and see you in the next one, by the way, I leave you a couple of pictures of the first seeds of Astrophytum Myriostiga that I harvest in my garden, see you soon.
Do you also sell those succulents?
Some succulents are for sale, cacti too, I sow many seeds to find the best ones and reproduce them.
I also grew some succulents but it's not that easy to find the best seeds. Yours look very pretty and healthy.
As your agaves are both variegates, I guess somebody dumped them there and they got growing, they are very tough: that happens all the time here. Agave Americana has become naturalised although I put a lot of effort into removing it around my place, it makes large areas into no-go zones
they are beautiful but take up a lot of space
Yeah, once they start covering an area with all their children you have to set them on fire and dig a lot just to get the area back