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Stalking Dinner
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It’s Always Cactember at Cactus Island.
Especially at blossoming and wooly growth times. A 6am seniors-only grocery store run last week surprised us with the tail end of open flowers on these night blooming Cereus Peruvianus/Hildemannianus as we walked over to the Jeep to leave. Made our morning and the rest of the day. The Pilosocereus aff flexibilispinus “Sitio Grande, Bahia” are getting taller and darker blue-green smoky skin, and the similar P. Piauhyensis are trading out lime green skin for dark green-blue complimented by yellow needles as they hit a growth spurt finally. A 6’x6′ square of extra shade cloth is aiding the Harrisia Aboriginum in growing healthier, taller and darker green as would be…
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A Gold Tortoise Shell Beetle and What it Likes to Visit
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Our Lizards
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Two Projects Completed Late Last Year
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Morphological Gems for the Eye, Cultivated and Found
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What it Took to Get Our “Food Engine” Organic Beds Going
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Uncommon Columnar Cacti growing in the Nursery
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A Bountiful Mother’s Day from the Gardens
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The Colorful and Interesting Fungi Found Here
Insect life isn’t the only diverse ecological realm at Cactus Island; mycological organisms in their bright colors and curious forms also shine within our slice of natural ecology. I’m not really a ‘shroom guy, but what grabs me, grabs me……especially so when it could end up in a drawing or painting. This tells us that our sandy soil ecology is healthy and that there is a vast network of underground mycelia living in symbiosis with plant and tree roots. When it rains it becomes evident in the fruiting bodies that quickly emerge, last for a few days and disappear as quickly as they appeared. Several times, while remodeling the house,…
Cactus Island Nursery