Oh My Cacti!

Last Sunday Hubby and I went to plants and flowers gardens located at the West Bound Terminal in Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City with main purpose to buy garden soil, because we wanted to re-pot the flowering plants that we've bought at Lim Ket Kai (will be posted soon).

While exploring the area I landed in a garden with a lot of orchids that were flourishing with colorful flowers. I was so attracted with them and decided to enter the garden, curious what more it offers. To may surprise the garden was bigger than I expected and inside it has a vast collection of cacti. Yep! there were lots and lots of cacti displayed that definitely made me awed! 

From large to small potted cacti of different shape and form, they were all there. I wanted to take home one or two of the cacti, but hesitated because hubby will surely disagree. I already tossed P1000.00 a day before for gerberas, stargazers and malaysian mums, enough na muna yun!

 

I wonder how much they were, I never bothered asking, mahirap na! 

I settled in photographing them instead, regretting not having my DSLR with me I could have taken more high resolution and clearer photos. Aarrgh!

Next time, I make sure to bring her along with me when I visit the garden. After all the owner was nice enough to let me take pictures, I'm sure she will let me take some again.

Photos taken using Samsung Galaxy S2 Smartphone.

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The Lilium Stargazers

Yesterday I got to meet these lovelies at Lim Ket Kai, where plants and flowers are displayed and for sale as part of the Cagayan de Oro City Fiesta Celebration on August 28. Hubby and I happened to passed by at the area after my appointment with the doctor and saw a lot of beautiful flowering plants displayed including gerberas, orchids, mums and pretty large blooms of stargazers. Accordingly, most of the flower plants on sale came from Davao City.

 

Lilium Stargazer is a hybrid Oriental Lily and are known for its fragrance. Stargazer was created in 1974 by by Leslie Woodriff, a lily breeder in California. This cross breed lily was named Stargazer because the bloom faces toward the sky.

Stargazers are available in pink and white, white and yellow colors. I only saw two colors yesterday but the vendor told me that there were yellows but were already sold out.

 

I wanted to buy the full grown plant with blooms but it cost about P350 (approx. $8.0) per plant, too expensive for me. So I settled getting the seedlings instead at P75 (approx. $1.7) each. 

I bought the pink and white, white and yellow seedlings and hoping to grow it well and soon watch them bloom in my front yard.

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Macro Monday

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