Friday Flower Blogging

[ellarien]

Claret cup cactus UA Campus, April 2008

Brought to you from the Eee. (I was a bit disconcerted to find it doesn't have plain old ftp! My ISP doesn't support sftp on the user web space, but they do have a web client that did the trick. Installing Imagemagick turned out to be easy, though.

In further Eee news, I *think* I have a reproducible way of getting it to behave on the network. One of the steps seems to be 'wait five minutes for everyone to settle in.' Will document later, if I manage to do it again.

Comments

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

What great colours! Seeing that this morning has brightened up my day already!

[ellarien]

Thanks!

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

That is a really pretty cactus.

After seeing cacti flowering in the hills around Boulder, I now realise why my specimens in pots in the conservatory have never flowered and most likely never will. I just can't bake them long and hard enough!

[ellarien]

Yes, they really do need lots of light and heat! My mother has some small ones -- rebutias and a similar orange-flowered thing I bought as an undergraduate -- that flower every year, but those flowers are only about an inch across. I always feel sorry for the prickly pear in the conservatory in the Sheffield Botanical Gardens, which is obviously not getting baked enough to be really happy.