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Desert Jewels It started with a rainy-day trip to a garden centre where Ari fell in love with a little succulent

Our new jungle set up in the library.
02/09/2023

Our new jungle set up in the library.

Here’s an adult Faucaria sp. felina subsp. tuberculosa that it's about three years old.
20/06/2022

Here’s an adult Faucaria sp. felina subsp. tuberculosa that it's about three years old.

Faucaria are very cool looking Mesembs. These seedlings were sown on 20/03/22More purple ones are F tuberculosaThe other...
20/06/2022

Faucaria are very cool looking Mesembs.

These seedlings were sown on 20/03/22

More purple ones are F tuberculosa
The others are F paudicens

Was there a BCSS branch meeting last night?Why yes, yes there was. How can you tell? 😂😂
02/06/2022

Was there a BCSS branch meeting last night?

Why yes, yes there was.
How can you tell? 😂😂

And now the Crassula coralita has gussied herself up for the bees.
20/05/2022

And now the Crassula coralita has gussied herself up for the bees.

Some pretty Delosperma cooperi ‘Jewel of the Desert’ flowers.
19/05/2022

Some pretty Delosperma cooperi ‘Jewel of the Desert’ flowers.

There are plans for a terrarium, and these absolute beauties will be going in there. Not all succulents live in arid con...
12/05/2022

There are plans for a terrarium, and these absolute beauties will be going in there.

Not all succulents live in arid conditions, String of Turtles are epiphytes native to North and South American tropical forests so should thrive in there.

Pretty Lithops flowers that shouldn’t be happening now, and somewhat less striking Mammillaria prolifera flowers. Howeve...
05/05/2022

Pretty Lithops flowers that shouldn’t be happening now, and somewhat less striking Mammillaria prolifera flowers.
However the fruits and shape of the Mammilaria does make it look a bit like a spikey Christmas tree.

The thing about Conophytums is that they go to sleep at this time of year - naturally hiding from what would normally be...
03/05/2022

The thing about Conophytums is that they go to sleep at this time of year - naturally hiding from what would normally be a scorching South African summer.

That means that this lot look about right - it’s nerve wracking knowingly letting your plants shrivel up and apparently die.
Just have to hope they all wake up in the Autumn now.

There’s just something amazing about growing from seed. Here’s a selection of Mesembs varying from 3 to 9 months in age.
11/04/2022

There’s just something amazing about growing from seed.
Here’s a selection of Mesembs varying from 3 to 9 months in age.

Local Branch meeting of the BCSS is always both wonderful and dangerous. Some new pretties.
07/04/2022

Local Branch meeting of the BCSS is always both wonderful and dangerous.
Some new pretties.

27/03/2022

Green wall update.
Winter colours haven’t gone yet so not very green, and need to swap some things round now we know what has made it through the winter (everything, although one has tried hard to die)

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