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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #405 on: November 04, 2014, 09:51:21 PM »
They are, though it might be the light.
Garish flowers on the aloinanthus. http://www.sunscapes.net/images/Aloinopsis%20x%20'Opera%20Mauve'.JPG
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #406 on: November 04, 2014, 09:54:14 PM »
They are, though it might be the light.
Garish flowers on the aloinanthus. http://www.sunscapes.net/images/Aloinopsis%20x%20'Opera%20Mauve'.JPG
I have a friend who would call that "knicker pink" !
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #407 on: November 04, 2014, 11:47:28 PM »
Probably wouldn't make an impression over here ....

Steven Hammer's fairly new book, The Titanopsis Group is excellent. http://www.littlesphaeroid.com/ 
Aside from Hammer's witty prose, which I can read for pleasure, it features some of the most stunningly beautiful plant photographs I've ever seen.
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #408 on: November 05, 2014, 12:59:57 AM »
Probably wouldn't make an impression over here .... Steven Hammer's fairly new book, The Titanopsis Group is excellent. http://www.littlesphaeroid.com/ 
Aside from Hammer's witty prose, which I can read for pleasure, it features some of the most stunningly beautiful plant photographs I've ever seen.

Well I'd certainly agree 100% with that and the drawings are incredibly beautiful.   I've signed up for the entire set which are due out singly at irregular intervals which is fine by me.  Steve's writing is not quite what one would expect in such publications but I find it incredibly refreshing.

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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #409 on: November 05, 2014, 01:15:12 AM »
Yep. I thought about signing up for all the books, but I'm mainly interested in plants I can grow outside. Stomatiums, certainly. (S. agninum, which I don't grow, has flowers strongly scented of banana. I had one, labeled just sp., which had tiny yellow pineapple-scented nocturnal flowers,in February.) Ruschias, maybe. (R. pulvinaris, hamata, etc. have overwintered here, but I don't know the secret of keeping them for long. And it wasn't rodents that did them in.)
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #410 on: March 10, 2015, 04:20:42 PM »
Titamopsis hugo-schlechteri coming into flower.
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #411 on: March 10, 2015, 04:21:36 PM »
Aloinopsis luckhoffii
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« Reply #412 on: March 10, 2015, 04:33:25 PM »
So beautifully grown at such a high latitude Steve.

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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #413 on: March 10, 2015, 04:45:30 PM »
So beautifully grown at such a high latitude Steve.

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Thanks, John. The sun has been shining here all day and these two plants have been soaking it up. My cyclamen, on the other hand, struggled today and are probably wondering why the hell I haven't put any shading up yet! The collapsed leaves should recover in the cool of the evening....
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« Reply #414 on: April 10, 2015, 09:41:31 PM »
Delosperma sphalmantoides in full bloom.

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« Reply #415 on: April 10, 2015, 11:17:24 PM »
Johan  -   Wonderful Delosperma there and so early!

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« Reply #416 on: April 15, 2015, 01:26:46 PM »
Johan  -   Wonderful Delosperma there and so early!

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Thanks John.

Last year the plant was a month earlier in flower.

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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #417 on: May 04, 2015, 11:28:49 PM »
Pleiospilos nelii.
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Re: delosperma & aizoaceae
« Reply #418 on: May 05, 2015, 09:45:30 AM »
Pleiospilos nelii.

 or - a neat representation of a volcanic eruption!  ;)
Always something astonishing in the world of succulent plants.
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« Reply #419 on: May 06, 2015, 12:00:22 AM »
or - a neat representation of a volcanic eruption!  ;)
Always something astonishing in the world of succulent plants.

Apparently, the common name for Pleiospilos is 'split rock', something volcanoes certainly do!
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