Brunsvigia gregaria

[Carlo]

Welwitschia will bloom in as little as 2.5 years from seed. Even if it takes 5, 7, or 10, it'll beat the Brunsvigia!

[Maggi Young]

Crikey, as quickly as that? I thought that for such a very long-lived plant, it would take MUCH longer than that... there's hope for you, then, eh? 

[Cris]

Hi,
 
Let me tell you that my Brusvingias have already two little leaves (some of them). In the weekend i'll take a pic to show you.

I leave you a pic of them when i received it and some days after be planted:

[Cris]

Hi,
my little seeds survived the winter and are now little bulbs.
I left you one photo of some seddlings still with green leaves, the others are in dormancy.

[Maggi Young]

Cris, these are really looking like "real" little bulbs now, aren't they? Where will you over-winter them?

[Cris]

Hi Maggi
Yes, now the already are little bulbs.
I'll put them in a mini green house I bought (is realy little), but I hope they will be protected from the rain and the cold.
Now they are growing a bit more, they already have more leaves.

[Maggi Young]

Cris, I would think that in Lisbon that your little greenhouse will make a good home for the bulbs. Often a little protection from worst of the wet is all that is needed, I think.

[Cris]

By now, I must support it very well for don't go with the wind. It's realy very little (1,40x1,40x2,00 mts). Here we have much wind, I hate it. 
I have in mind to buy one or to built one with wood. We must start searching for the materials to start builting it. then I'll show you.  I've been looking for the prices of a glass greenhouse and it is so, but so expensive, that I gave up of that idea. We must dedicate realy to the "bricolage"(sorry, I don't know the word in english).

[Maggi Young]

In English we also use the word  'bricolage' ... to mean the construction of say, sculpture, from "found" objects ( like making a sculpture from bits of a bicycle, for instance)  rather than creating all from the beginning,( as in carving a square block of marble into a bicycle !).... so I understand you to mean that you must set about making a greenhouse yourselves, as a "do it yourself" project, usung perhaps, old wood and so on..... right? 

[Cris]

Yes Maggi, it's that. We will use old wood, tables. Just te plastic we may buy it. It will take some time to be built, we only have a few time in the weekends.