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As there are around 150 kinds of tulips, sometimes I am confused with it because they look almost the same with narcissus and daffodil flowers. I guess the one I have here are tulips..right folks? happy weekend!

tulips in our garden from last year

We went last time to a garden shop and saw these very beautiful flowers of orchids. Aren’t they lovely? We only got one in our house and it is almost a year that it did not bear flowers. We are hoping that one day it will bear flowers again!!

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If I am not mistaken this is called a ball cactus. I got one at home but another kind of this. Amazing plants full of thorns. be careful with their thorns, they can be very painful.

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We got bunch of cacti in our house. The ones you see in the photos are only some of our cacti. Since we don’t have a winter garden, we usually put our plants on all of the windows in our house. See more information of Mamillarias.

Mammillarias have extremely variable spination from species to species, and attractive flowers, making them specifically attractive for cactus hobbyists. Most mammillarias plants are considered easy to cultivate, though some species are among the hardest cacti to grow. Several taxa are threatened with extinction at least in the wild, due to habitat destruction and especially overcollecting for the pot plant trade. Cactus fanciers can assist conservation of these rare plants by choosing nursery-bred specimens (wild-collected ones are illegal to possess for the rarest species anyways). Besides helping to preserve rare plants, one can gain experience in growing and breeding cacti in general with nursery-bred rare mammillarias: several mammillarias are quite easy (for cacti) to grow from seeds. One such species, popular and widely available from nursery stock but Endangered in the wild, is Mammillaria zeilmanniana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammillaria

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This time, I will tell you that these cacti are not found in our garden or inside the house. I took this photo as we went to one of the Garden Center that is around 40 kilometers drive from where we live. If we only have a big place in our house I might buy these all..wink!

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We love to work in the garden. We have some flowers too in our garden. We can’t wait to see it blooming again. I am confused what are these flowers I uploaded here. Are these tulips or daffodil. This photo was taken last year in our garden! there coming back soon!

Tulips or daffodil? any idea out there? I guess these are tulips as there are around 150 species of these flowering plants

Tulipa, commonly called tulip, is a genus of about 150 species of bulbous flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. The native range of the species includes southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the west to northeast of China. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, used as pot plants or as fresh cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.

We love to work in the garden. We have some flowers too in our garden. We can’t wait to see it blooming again. I am confused what are these flowers I uploaded here. Are these tulips or daffodil. This photo was taken last year in our garden! there coming back soon!

Tulips or daffodil? any idea out there? I guess these are tulips as there are around 150 species of these flowering plants

Tulipa, commonly called tulip, is a genus of about 150 species of bulbous flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. The native range of the species includes southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the west to northeast of China. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, used as pot plants or as fresh cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.

We have some cacti on our window. I guess more than 20 cacti. This how we love plants even inside the house. I guess our house is like a little forest.

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Succulent plants, also known as succulents or fat plants, are water-retaining plants adapted to arid climate or soil conditions. Succulent plants store water in their leaves, stems and/or roots. The storage of water often gives succulent plants a more swollen or fleshy appearance than other plants, also known as succulence. In addition to succulence, succulent plants variously have other water-saving features. source wikipedia

Winter has also its own beauty. It might be very cold but the white surroundings you see especially the frozen trees around is such dream and a real beauty of nature.

Frozen trees in Parsberg, Germany.
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I always love plants. One of them are the family of cactus. I have a lot now sitting on our window pane. here is one kind of cactus I got..any idea what is its particular name? I know before but since I left home almost six years ago, I cannot remember some names anymore. thanks in advance..

A cactus (plural: cacti or cactuses) is any member of the spine plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. They are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also crop plants. Cacti are part of the plant order Caryophyllales, which also includes members like beets, baby’s breath, spinach, amaranth, tumbleweeds, carnations, rhubarb, buckwheat, plumbago, bougainvillea, chickweed and knotgrass.

Cacti are distinctive and unusual plants, which are adapted to extremely arid and hot environments, showing a wide range of anatomical and physiological features which conserve water. Their stems have expanded into green succulent structures containing the chlorophyll necessary for life and growth, while the leaves have become the spines for which cacti are so well known. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus