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All the best wishes to you, your families and loved ones and your plants :)

Except for lithops I only own two other succulents: a couple of Sempervivum that are very dear to me and these two tiny Titanopsis plants (probably calcarea). I'm not even sure the latter get the care they need, I just handle them like lithops. Still, looks like they are doing quite well - there are flower buds coming up :) Very slowly though.. I'm not at home for the holidays and probably won't see the flowers.

Here is the report on the new purchases. Considering all those many lithops species being sold at Kakteen-Haage my choice wasn't that special. After all you have to stay in your budget and think about how little space you have for new plants. Having to buy at least two plants of one species (known as the collector's curse) is also a restricting factor. I'm really glad I could choose the plants myself though - a privilege you don't have very often having used to ordering online. This way you can go for plants you find most interesting or feel curious about. However, it is a bit difficult this time of the year when the plants are badly wrinkled, the patterns are blurred and the colors faded. You need to imagine the potential ;) First a couple of   C136 hallii v. hallii "brown". I have a weakness for cocoa-colored hallii and already have a couple of ochracea seedlings which are just starting to show their true colors. As I mentioned before I just had to get the...

Came back just in time to see the helmutii bloom :)

I've finally made a proper list of the lithops I own which now can be viewed here or via a link in the navigation bar to the right. I'll try to update it regularly. Most of the plants listed are provided with a link to an entry here in the blog where you can see pictures or other descriptions. I think it should help you get an overview of the blog and help me see what I'm actually growing :)

A couple of days ago I've been to the Kakteen-Haage nursery in Erfurt again. Less photos, more purchases this time. :) As you can see on the photo below, the lithops section was full. It had all different kinds of them to choose from. I was intrigued by so many but had to restrain myself (lithops are an expensive hobby!). Saw a lot of cultivars, aucampiae 'Betty's Beryl' /' Storm's Snowcap' , lesliei 'albiflora '/ 'albinica' , bromfieldii 'Sulphurea' , terricolor 'Aurea' etc. etc. as well as rarely available herrei , francisci , geyeri , werneri , verruculosa and comptonii . I was very surprised to find julii 'Kikushōgyoku' I've been looking for everywhere (photos later). If you're somewhere near I'd really recommend to stop by there now because they've clearly updated their assortment recently i.e. put younger plants out for sale. Anyway, I haven't taken any lithops pictures (they were too many...