Don’t you just love this doughty cactus, intent on moving forward, keeping the family gene pool alive, putting roots down in an exposed gutter in Downtown Valencia?
For Becky’s #SquaresRenew
Keeping the Species Alive
Don’t you just love this doughty cactus, intent on moving forward, keeping the family gene pool alive, putting roots down in an exposed gutter in Downtown Valencia?
For Becky’s #SquaresRenew
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
well I do love it, but I can hear my surveyor telling me to remove it!
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Spoilsport.
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they always are when it comes to nature entwining with buildings!
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I do, but I love that sky even more.
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Erm, it’s unkind to mention it, but it’s a daily occurrence here just now.
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I can enjoy it vicariously!
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Pretty amazing
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Yup. Tenacious, eh?
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Absolutely
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Nature loves to find a good place to exist
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Sunny. Out of harm’s way. What’s not to like?
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oh Margaret, you should have seen the gutter-botanical garden of our house in France, when we bought it…. one lonely cactus is NOTHING in comparison…. but yes, of course, you‘re right – nature MUST be preserved!
We had to re-do the whole roof, found, instead of the wooden bearing posts a (too) short metal bar holding up the roof, new (non-existent before) insulation, new gutters of course and the installation of ‚down-pipes‘ (don‘t know the name) to have the rainwater not washing down the walls of the house and filling up the cellars – so, tbh, preserving the nature growing up there wasn‘t on our priority list! 😉
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Aaagh, found this in spam! Mind you, it’s such a tale of woe, I’m hardly surprised. Poor you!
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It seems to try to blend in colourwise so as not to get discovered and “evicted”.
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It’s made sure it’s to difficult to get at, and not worth the trouble.
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Nothing if not resourceful!
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Indeed!
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Perseverance pays!
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Evidently. It seems happy enough.
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Well this a nice example of opportunistic proliferation!
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I thought so!
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Persevering!
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Like all of its kind!
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It’s fine until it causes a leak and then water damage, and that’s not pessimism but from previous experience!
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Resourceful. Will survive whatever the world brings to it.
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That’s what it was put on earth to do!
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I have navelwort growing on my roof. Not necessarily a good thing!
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So long as it doesn’t push slates or tiles apart.
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Yes, that is the problem.
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😦
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On the roof, how incredible! Wonderful observation, Margaret.
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Wow!
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You have to admire the resilience.
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Plucky little cactus!
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Feisty Fellow (probably not a fellow. But – y’know – alliteration).
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Our two cacti are very different but I must admire the resilience and tenacity of this one!
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It’s doing its best, anyway!
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