Beautiful trumpet cactus flower on display today.

This gigantic columnar Cerus cactus flowers prolifically all summer. Bees loves the flowers, consequently many fruit develop and as you can see from this ripe fruit each one is full of seeds. This is a Cerus Chalybaeus.

A friend is leaving Melbourne and sadly isn’t able to take his cacti collection with him. He’s asked me to put his cacti up for sale and we decided to start with a massive sale of his huge potted San Pedros. Many of which are the largest flowering San Pedros in pots I’ve ever seen.
These Trichocereus Pachanoi are beautiful specimens, most of them flower regularly.
Here’s the deal. The following plants will be delivered for free to anywhere in Melbourne. Depending on where you live that could take up to two weeks, …

I’m often asked whether San Pedros flower as well in pots as they do in the ground. While most plants do better in the ground, San Pedros do flower and can look magnificent in a pot. They are a great patio or deck plant. Here’s a few photos to illustrate that point.
As you can see with this first photo of a San Pedro, Trichocereus Pachanoi, they can flower profusely when in a pot. This plant in kept outside in Melbourne on a North facing patio.
The key is to ensure they gets lots to …

I posted a couple photos of my Cerus columnar cactus before, here and here. This cactus flowers prolifically from mid to late summer. The flowers are magnificent. They have a beautiful pink tinge, are huge and stay out until early afternoon. As you can see from this photo bees also love the flowers.

The Cerus is a much stronger cactus than the San Pedros and will grow to be very tall and sprout many arms as you can see in this photo. Mine keeps growing and is surprisingly rock solid in high winds.
I …