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caught this little bee inside one of the claret cup cactus blossoms...

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A WHOLE lot of that stuff does GREAT here in the texas hill country. Those yellow columbines I Think are a Texas wildflower (Hinkley columbine) that an old neighbor collected and propagated. I could easily be wrong but the dude runs "the madrone nursery". Sweet Plants. All of them

God I miss having a yard!

EDIT: I'm WRONG! the spurs are too long to be Hinkley :P

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the columbines are a local species or i should say a localized variant of a common new mexico species that only grows in one isolated mountain range....i think i have 3-4 different plants that come from this range...its a "sky island",meaning that the conditions around these mountains become rapidly inhospitable so theres no way for these isolated plant groups to propagate outwards through any means aside from humans..

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Originally Posted by unclefishstick

the columbines are a local species or i should say a localized variant of a common new mexico species that only grows in one isolated mountain range....i think i have 3-4 different plants that come from this range...its a "sky island",meaning that the conditions around these mountains become rapidly inhospitable so theres no way for these isolated plant groups to propagate outwards through any means aside from humans..

I didn't even know you were in NM. I was going to post a bunch of cacti stuff a buddy has and he moved here from Fanta Se. It's also a small frickin world because I JUST found out Surlys are made in literally my old neighborhood. South Bloomington MN.

since I'm always ripping pictures. here is an honest one :P

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the company is based there,i think the frames are made in tawain...

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lol I'm sure you are right. too bad, they're real close to the river bottoms I used to mud around in.