Cactus flowers brighten summertime doldrums

I complained most the estrus inwards my last post. It bothers us humans, but the cacti inwards our garden seemed to live unfazed yesteryear it. In fact, the abundant sunshines makes them happy, in addition to when they're happy, they vantage us amongst flowers. Which, inwards turn, makes us happy. So everybody is happy correct now.

Cleistocactus strausii

Cleistocactus has the strangest flowers. They're non rattling showy, but they rest opened upwardly far longer than the impressive flowers of, say, Echinopsis. Hummingbirds beloved them.

Cleistocactus strausii

Speaking of Echinopsis, what you lot come across below is the 3rd moving ridge of flowers on this 'Johnson's Hybrid':

Echinopsis 'Johnson's Hybrid'

Another Echinopsis, a cultivar called 'Forty-Niner', has flowered for the origin time:

Echinopsis 'Forty-Niner'

The cactus itself is even in addition to so tiny, exclusively 2½" tall. The blossom is much bigger than the stem. Unfortunately, it lasted for merely 1 day.

Echinopsis 'Forty-Niner'

The adjacent one, Ferocactus chrysacanthus, used to live a inwards pot inwards the partial shade in addition to never flowered. Now it's inwards the reason on 1 of the succulent mounds inwards the front end yard in addition to it's flowering for the origin time. The flowers are modest in addition to fairly insignificant, but it's even in addition to so proficient to come across it doing in addition to so well. The golden spines are beautiful.

Ferocactus chrysacanthus

Ferocactus acanthodes below is a souvenir from my March trip to Palm Springs. I bought it at Mariscal Cactus & Succulents in Desert Hot Springs. I was rattling happy to come across in addition to so many buds developing:

Ferocactus acanthodes (aka cylindraceus) on June 9, 2017

Ferocactus acanthodes on June 21, 2017

Ferocactus acanthodes

The end cactus I desire to exhibit you lot is Ferocactus emoryi. It's even in addition to so inwards a fairly modest pot on the border of the front end porch but it's been flowering for a few weeks now. When the sunlight hits it at merely the correct angle, the petals convey a metallic element sheen. I await at it several times a day.