When we lived in Canada, we enjoyed a display from our Zygocactus plant every December and we knew it there as a Christmas Cactus. Here in the southern hemisphere it blooms in June/July and ours has done well this year. Unfortunately I didn't think of sketching it till this week when the blooms were nearly gone.
This plant was from an elderly lady who lived a kilometre from us. She gave it to us as a gift for returning her husband's wallet which we had found on our street. (I remember the uncomfortable feeling we had looking through the personal items in the wallet trying to locate an address for the owner). The wife said the wallet must have dropped out from the basket of his motorized scooter as he had dementia and was in the habit of whizzing along too fast down the wrong streets.
Our Zygocactus has pinky flowers and it's been difficult to match this pink with my current palette of watercolours. Our neighbour has half a dozen different varieties of Zygocactus with blooms ranging from white to pink to mauve. He's going to give me some cuttings!
#Sailorfude pen, watercolour, #Stillman&Birn Beta Sketchbook, 5.5”x8.5”.
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