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Just wanted to show you this because it's so pretty :) (Click for XXL)

I'm not even mentioning the Delosperma harazianum here which has been a constant delight. It is just flowering non-stop all year around! Any takers for seeds? In fact, I have other beauties here that have to be encouraged with attention. This Anacampseros vanthielii has very big flowers compared to A. filamentosa, they are as big as any Av. quinaria, I'd say. However the plant only grows them one or two at a time and you are lucky not to miss one when it opens. As with all Anacampseros and Avonia it opens only once for a couple of hours. Any takers for seeds? Besides Neohenricia, Stomatium alboroseum has grown one nightly flower. I'd like to cross-pollinate the two species but the recent Neohenricia flowers are at a slightly different developmental stage. If they open before the Stomatium one closes I'll surely try. Another plant that is filling me with joy is this Adromischus and even though the open flowers are not much of a sight the whole flower stalk is truly impr...

Today I had the pleasure of witnessing this wonderful conophytum flower! ♥ How did it come to this? I've been trying to wake the conophytums. Some of them are already far along like the one from the previous post, others are still not changing visibly. I keep documenting it though :) Here is the Conophytum fulleri changing or rather changing while still hiding. I started watering on August 1st when it looked like this. On Aug 13 I started seeing some green coming through. On Aug 16 both plants already started to get chapped. Such a fresh green beneath! And then, only one day later .... the flower started growing. From there it escalated quickly. Aug 18 Aug 19 Aug 22. Beautiful ♥

I went by the book and started watering my conophytums around August 1st but not all of them have woken up yet (or at least not very visibly). Interestingly while the conos I bought this year are quite slow the ones I've had for more than a year were ready for water and immediately started growing. Here is one of them. I'm trying to document the waking up process so there will be more pics soon. 26 July 5 August 16 August

Well, this is not at all what I expected XD

It has been five weeks since I started the experiment to see if badly etiolated (is this the term for a plant out of shape due to a lack of light and too much watering?) lithops plants can be saved and corrected. Well, this is how far the plants are now. My initial plan was to make them wrinkle and shrivel to a better size to make it easier for the new leaves to come out next year. The pot was exposed to lots and lots of sun and heat and was not watered at all. In fact, I am not going to water them until next year. I was worried since they've never seen this much sunlight they'd get burnt but there was no problem with that. Their current state is definitely an improvement. The two less longer plants are slowly nearing the "mark of shortness" I've set for them. The mark being as close as possible to the substrate level. The substrate level shortness is what I want for the long monster as well but it is not realistic within this year. It just needs to shrivel enoug...

The other Mesembs I got in Essen mostly have familiar names but also some that are new to me. I'm very excited to grow them all on the windowsill. My experience with Cheiridopsis was positive so far so I got more of them. Actually, thinking of Cheiridopsis, I imagine rather large plants but the ones I got are so small I could confuse them with Conophytums. I'll try to keep them in this size and shape. This one is a Cheiridopsis, too! Who would have thought! There are also two quite different Antimimas. The first one looks just like the Antimima fenestrata I already have now, all covered in dried up leaves, which is a relief. The second one I'd never take for an Antimima at all. But it's a cute little tree. The young Nananthus margaretiferus came with a promise of beautiful flowers. The Glottiphyllum neilii is the most compactly grown and intensely colored Glottiphyllum I've ever seen. I also got a couple of tiny Trichodiademas. I'm still figuring them out. They ...