It is that time of the season for the 24-hour flowers to bloom again, with their delicate colors. The good news is that we have another two cactus flowers that will also bloom in the coming days.
The flowers are known as Echinopsis Werdermannii and they are originally from South America. How they made their way to South Africa, I wouldn't know.
I have a collection of the kinds of flowers that I like, and they are mainly cactus flowers with a few other succulent flowers at the end of the post. The reason why I am fond of cactus and succulent flowers is that they are very durable and hardy plants. Even by plucking off a leaf of a plant and placing it into a pot with high drainage soil, it will be sure to grow. They have also withstood all of the wildfires over the years, and they are very tough plants.
Late afternoon and this was the last open photo that I could get of the flower.
Here below you can see that it started waning and it died overnight.
We planted this cactus when it was as small as its babies surrounding it. You can see the elongated stem sticking up from main cactus and it is the formation of a flower. I don't know the name of this plant, but we are excited to see that it also has a flower in progress.
This "Christ Thorn" in our front garden has a long traveling history, as I took a stem from a plant years ago, far up north in the country and it has traveled with us over the years. It has lovely rows of little yellow flowers with a new batch coming out at the top of the leaves.
Nope, I don't know the name of the beauties below, but to me they were very pretty growing between the red and yellow pincushion bushes.
And here below is a fully developed one, and maybe 
This one is also one of the no name brands that I like, as it makes a beautiful show amongst the greens and whites in the garden.
And there you have it. Just another beautiful flower show randomly taken from my files of this month so far. As I have said before, I don't go out to take photos of flowers, but if I see something that I like, then I will take a photo of it. This area is brimming with flowers at this time of the year, just before the heat of the major summer steps in and thankfully some days are even still cool here. Some locals reckon that the African sun has increased in its intensity and that it's best to walk around with an umbrella. Maybe I should get us two of those camping umbrellas that one can wear as a hat. I could even rig up some hooks on the edges of the umbrellas that one can hang a coffee tin mug and a small packet of biscuits on :)
I hope that you have enjoyed the flowers.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.
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