http://i.imgur.com/T2BWOVl.jpg Well you live & learn...

I got into it by accident. And partly because my grandmother had one for over 25 years. Tho I only saw hers bloom once.

A friend gave me a cutting off her plant 7 years ago. No flowers until this year. I was literally shocked. 2 years ago a neighbor of hers gave me her huge plant. She had it for 16 years and was sick of messing around with it, even tho she had many flowers on if since she got it from a friend.

You see where I'm going with this? Garden shops don't sell these night blooming cereus plants. 99% of the time someone has to give you one or a cutting off of one for you to start. The other 1% are those that find them growing in the wild and get one that way.... which they eventually pass on as cuttings to start growing a plant, or giving away the whole plant they started.

No matter what, they are a tricky plant to get flowering. They can't be too wet, nor can they be too dry.

:D I really don't like moths, I don't even remember why I opened this thread :D
Maybe it was to add to my post count. Maybe not :)

I used to spend many happy hours wandering up and down the edges of field and wood in the dead of a warm summer night, adding to my collection from the heavily scented brambles. But I got so I couldn't bear the thought of killing them any more just for my own arcane hobby.

You opened this thread because of the secret powers of the forest squirrel, by the way.

Oh master, help me to harness the power of the forest squirrel! :D
Fun fact: did you know that Einhörnchen means squirrel in German? I know, because I'm half German, half American.

Oh, and that's just wrong.

http://i.imgur.com/n2JuBcU.jpg

You don't really know me yet, do you?

And it is wrong, I know, so I don't do it any more :D

No, I don't know you yet, buddy. :D

Diamondback moth threat:
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36530758

http://i.imgur.com/kAzwr7K.jpg?1 I'm not keen on these, though

Eich has a secret passion...
 

He likes to smell moth balls...

Though I am unsure of how he gets their little legs apart.

Not that I want to know.

Yesterday (for only the second time this year) I visited my local butterfly 'hotspot' with my camera but all I found, even though the fleabane is out once again, were a few 'little brown jobs':

http://i.imgur.com/r3E0Xxq.jpg

Peacock, a very familiar butterfly found just about everywhere

http://i.imgur.com/AQDzWp6.jpg

Gatekeeper, common in hedgerows and country lanes

http://i.imgur.com/gg9Q24r.jpg

Meadow Brown, a common butterfly of open countryside

The weather was rather overcast... and brown butterflies, absorbing heat more quickly than others because of their dark colouring, are the ones most often encountered on dull days.

http://i.imgur.com/Pi6pMgI.jpg

This morning I revisited that patch of fleabane; some butterflies are more active in the mornings and it's hot again today, so I reckoned I might see some 'blues' or something unusual. No luck... all I saw were the usual brown jobs and this Painted Lady butterfly, very nice but it's a common migrant and might be seen anywhere.

I did come across this next to the churchyard, however. Never seen a white one before.

http://i.imgur.com/nNfitB3.jpg

A new season and fresh hopes of finding something special at my butterfly 'hotspot'...

Today is a very hot day indeed, so I visited my secret rough meadow-corner, near to the village church, and found some fast-flying and restless Large Skipper butterflies. Hard to get a shot, but I eventually managed these... I'm going to have to get Moira along here with her super new camera.

Skipper butterflies are often mistaken for moths because of the peculiar way they hold their wings at rest... rather like jet aircraft.

http://i.imgur.com/rD7b3qb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JhSteeR.jpg

Moithra!
 

I think U should mingle both of your photographic talents BBY!:D https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...4448a57c3e.jpg a combo of:http://i.imgur.com/F3FUJje.jpg+http://i.imgur.com/Pi6pMgI.jpg
=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...f97b5a67cc.jpg:yeah: