"Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..

[TheOnionMan]

It appears we were part of the same distribution--and that my plants are acting about the same as yours. I have encountered some herbivore damage. Apparently the munchers around here are not afraid to experiment with cuisine from another continent. A couple of the smaller plants I've lost entirely, others were merely set back, the balance not really touched at all. There is no apparent rhyme or reason to the depredations.

The real test, as with yours, is our upcoming winter (and that IS why the plants are being tested).

Yes, I believe you are correct, it's fun been a guinea pig garden site .  Unfortunately I lost 5-6 of these right from the start, damaged from shipping, but I'm pleased with what managed to survive and become established during the summer.  Here's another one I like the look of, received as Delosperma ex Tiffendell, with a note it might be a high altitude collection from the East Cape, possibly D. lavisiae.  Nice burnished leaf coloring, so far not flowered yet.  The other one I was very excited about is the Delosperma "new species" with hot orange and red-pink flowers, which I posted a couple photos of here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3795.msg156086#msg156086

We can compare notes here in the spring (you can do so on NARGS Forum as well, I started an Aizoaceae thread over there ;-)

[Lesley Cox]

If just one or two more were present the plant and the pot would be invisible.
Sulcorebutia mentosa with 4 flowers at once.

[cohan]

If just one or two more were present the plant and the pot would be invisible.
Sulcorebutia mentosa with 4 flowers at once.
(Attachment Link)

congrats-you are doing very well with these

[Ragged Robin]

Here,here, what a show Lesley 

[Maggi Young]

If just one or two more were present the plant and the pot would be invisible.
Sulcorebutia mentosa with 4 flowers at once.

Cute thing, isn't it? Love the scale of the flowers on that little plant.

[pel1]

Hi,
Is anyone interested in exchanging aeonium cuttings? below is my grow-list, I should be able to spare cuttings from most of them, and would like to swap for anything I don't already have. Contact me by PM if interested,
thanks,
James.

Arboreum
Arboreum 'Schwarzkopf'
Balsamiferum
“Blushing Beauty”
Canariense
Castello-Paivae
Ciliatum
Crysanthum
Cyrico
Davidbramwellii
Domesticum “variagata”
Goochiae
Haworthii
Glutinosum
Leucoblepharum
Percarneum
Saundersii
Simsii
Smithii
sp. “Fleur Rose”
Spathulatum
Urbicum

Greenovia
Aurea
Dodrientalis

[christian pfalz]

hello, under snow....
yucca linearifolia

yucca rostrata

yucca thompsoniana

yucca rostrata green form....

rostrata green form...

yuccas

cheers
chris

[Hans J]

Hi Cacti fans ,

Just has arrived me a new book for Cacti :

SULCOREBUTIEN - Kleinode aus Bolivien
It is written from Willi Gertel + Wolfgang Latin

published from the DKG in year 2010

...sorry only in german - but with 1359 very good pictures about each species ( 320 pages )

Hans  

[Hans J]

here is a link :
http://www.dkg.eu/cms/cs/index.pl?navid=Nr._5%3A_Sulcorebutien_1184&sid=de

Hans  

[kelaidis]

I believe there is a thread on Delosperma proper, but I can't seem to find it, but thought this might be a good place to bring up a really distinctive little delosperma that has proved hardy for quite a few years. It appeared at Sunscapes, one of America's greatest mail order nurseries selling alpines and other choice morsels. Bill Adams is not sure where he got it, but it is a delightful, season long bloomer not quite like any other delosperma I have grown: Bill's picture on his website is at this URL: http://www.sunscapes.net/images/D.%20sp.%20'Carlile%20Pink'%2032%25%203.0.JPG

I am appending several pix from my private garden where it is a season long delight. Any one have ideas about provenance?

[TheOnionMan]

Panayoti, the link below is probably the thread you were looking for, but your post is just a useful here.  It's a beautiful little Delo; from afar the flowers remind me of a novae-belgii aster.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3795.0

[Maggi Young]

PK, Mark has given you the correct link but there is no problem with your perfectly pink pictures being here!
I've made  link to your post on the Delos thread.

Seasonal Felicitations, to you, by the way!!

[cohan]

nice delo--as mark suggests, it is amazing how asterish or daisyish mesembs can be!

[WimB]

Some cacti flowering here now, they've been growing in trough unprotected for the last 4 years.

Echinocereus baileyi
and Escobaria missouriensis var. asperispina

[Darren]

Stunning pictures Wim. I have some tiny seedlings of the Echinocereus and I look forward to them flowering eventually!