A gentleman caller gave me this beautiful cactus plant over two years ago, it's clump forming with flattish segments it looks a bit like root ginger from certain angles, it was in flower when he gave it to me and it's been in flower ever since. I've been scouring the Gardener's Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers and the internet looking for it's name, but sadly no joy.
I see from the picture that Carmen has forget to pick up her wages!
It's a Maurice (Pompatus ex amore).
ReplyDelete♫Some people call me Maurice♫
DeleteWooo woooo!
DeleteDarling Mitzi,
ReplyDeleteYou really are a tease! Do any of us.......devoted readers as we are......really want to identify a Cactus when all we wish to be told about is the gentleman caller. Now, who was he, was he handsome, tall, short,fat, thin, rich......and, most importantly, single?
But, to return to the matter which you seem to wish to highlight....the Cactus.....well, we really feel that they are best left in the desert from whence, once upon a time, they came. And yours, darling Mitzi, we have to say, is a rather horrid shade of Barbie pink.
What you deserve from your gentlemen callers, darling M, are armfuls of scented Lilies. So stylish but not guaranteed to stay in flower for a year.....unless they are plastic......this could not be said for the Cactus, could it?
I've been terribly popular over the years Jane and Lance so much so I had to consult my diary because I couldn't even remember the man's name or what he looked like. Oh the joys of the internet. The gentleman in question is "BiJames47" a widower and keen cacti fancier from Rimswell with two grown up children and a dog called Muffin. He was quite good looking, like a young Roger Moore. I didn't like to ask him how his wife died but he did say he kept her prosthetic leg in the boot of his car as a memento and it served as a useful aid for propping open the window in his two berth static caravan in Filey. I didn't see him any more after that.
DeleteAm I turning into an old maid? I asked this question to Carmen last night when she was brushing my hair before bed, she didn't answer straight away it was if she was thinking about it and then she said something about "going through the change" and "Time of life" ? she does talk in riddles that one.
Goodness how have I missed all these posts?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that some mousey botanist from 1653 has already discovered and named this cactus species or is it genus? No matter I propose to dispense with formality and hundreds of years of scientific categorizing and cataloging and rename it, The Forever Flowering Mitzi.
Busy Lizzy, Black eyed Susan, Creeping Jenny and now The Forever Flowering Mitzi, I feel honoured.Thank you Ayem8y.
DeleteGreen with luminous pink spots; this has nothing to do with Mr Devine's warty wand or does it?
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It does have a look of Mr Devine's warty cock about it.
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