I have already posted a couple of long posts documenting my vegetable garden in two earlier #gardenjournal posts [My garden update](https://peakd.com/hive-120078/@sofs-su/my-garden-update-garden-journal) and [The value of growing food](https://peakd.com/hive-120078/@sofs-su/growing-food) so now its time to show you some of the cacti in my garden. Not just cacti, but cacti in bloom.
These coryphantha twins above compete with the waterlilies in my garden. People are so stunned when I tell them its my cactus in bloom. A couple of months ago I had a buyer come home asking for this cactus after she had seen some pictures of them in my blog. When I showed it to her she retracted and almost winced looking at the spines. I asked her if she liked roses and she answered in the positive. I told her if yo could handle the spines there could handle these easily as well. She had a rather silly smile on her face as she left.
Nature never ceases to amaze me. This photograph that I took sometime back in my garden is a testimony to that. This ferocactus cactus bloom reminds me of simplicity, purity and beauty of nature and its mild but sweet fragrance of the fragile beauty of life. This stunning blue banded bee (called the Amegilla zonata) never fails to remind me of the vivacity and energy that surrounds us.
Three isn't a crowd. My heurinia zebrina is blooming like crazy. it has various names locally - doughnut plant, stars and stripes and God knows what. People call them by any name they like. These plants seem to be a favorite food for caterpillars. If I don't check on them one day they would have eaten so many of the stems b y then leaving the succulent scared for life.
I call this guy a hexagonal wonder. These cacti have been blooming every year for the last 7 years and I still look at them with the same wonder and awe each season. Caralluma umbellata blooms each summer without fail. The buds are hexagonal in shape and looks quite stunning on their own.
This leafy cactus blooms hardly stay open for a couple of hours. I had to visit my garden a few times to capture this image, but the flower was already closing up.
The peace and the joy that fills the heart while I am one with nature is indescribable. My camera is the tool to store and share these scene with those in far off lands who may never get to see them.
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