His Majesty's Government are sending out an alarm call on Sunday at 3pm to everyone's phone. You can't put your phone on silent, it will still shriek like a Banshee. Captain Neem Oil has got the right idea.
Some late flowers from the Copiapoas. They live in the Atacama Desert and only get about 3mm of rain a year. They survive by absorbing moisture from the mist that comes off the Pacific Ocean. They have adapted cells on their surface called Trichomes that help trap the moisture.
It probably evolved to overcome the Stegosaurus's Thagomiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#:~:text=A thagomizer (/ˈθæ,on a mounted Stegosaurus tail
My latest graft - An Austrocylindropuntia pachypus grafted onto an Austrocylindropuntia subulata. The pachypus is very slow growing but the subulata grows about a foot a year so I'm hoping to get a 30 foot pachypus
That is VERY cool looking !! BTW, I really don't know how you remember all these long and arduous-to-pronounce names !! I can bearly remember which bush is a ligustrum and which is a loropetalum !! Very confusing !! They both begin with "L", ya know !!