My cactus flowered

[Pleater]

Will have to dig out the camera before it fades, but am quite astonished - my snakey cactus in the conservatory has a bright orange flower on it.

This month of April has been breaking records for temperatures, and we have had a long spell of clear skies and hot sun - I went in there this morning and there was the flower. There looks to be others yet to open.

I always find cactus flowers so surprising.

There they sit all spikey and unassuming and then there is a heatwave, I remember them and give them a watering with warm water left all day in the sun, and they suddenly throw caution to the wind and do something amazing.

Many years ago now I smelt a truly intoxicating perfume coming from the conservatory late one evening and found that a cactus had produced a huge white feathery flower on a long stem. It must have been hoping for a moth to be attracted. I saw it by the light of a full moon and it was most striking.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Bugbear]

Congratulations, Pleater. I'm so happy for you.

[tripleblessed]

I, too, will share your joy. Cacti do hopeful happy quite well, unexpectedly. One of my favorite remembered things from Peru was the blooms of the cacti seen from the train window along the track from Macchu Picchu to Cuzco.

[EagleJCS]

Congrats! Hopefully, it will continue to bloom regularly from here on out.

After several years of no (or very few blooms only once or twice a year) Mom's Christmas cactus has been blooming almost non-stop since Thanksgiving (late November). It had several blooms this past Sunday.

[Pleater]