Copiapoa dealbata - seed-grown in collection on own roots. Approx 40-50 years old.
This particular plant is part of a legacy collection that I am taking over featuring many plants from the late cactus explorer, Alan Craig (including this one).
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Aloe erinacea over summer dormancy. It’s since greened up and is putting out new growth but I think most desert plants look their best when they’re *just* surviving.
The last week or so has been….*fraught*, so I haven’t had much time to devote to the greenhouse (during the day).
Happy enough without me, many plants have been flowering entirely out of my view. However, I’m really happy to have caught this little one today.
South African plants seem to do well in England—likely because a lot of them are winter growers and so it always feels like winter to them. Among them, the caudiciform (pachycaul), poisonous, and completely unpleasant genus Tylecodon is of special interest to me, and this is a rare’un
Sleepy Dioscorea elephantipes having a hard time waking….
Acanthocalycium glaucum
A small growing cactus which is hardy down to some absolutely bone chilling temperatures, A. glaucum produces a glaucous coating from which it gets its name to protect it from from drying out in the Argentine sun.
Not terribly popular with customers.
Fouqueria columnaris
A caudiciform tree from Northern Mexico.
When the leaves from new stem growth desiccate and die in the heat of the summer they reveal sharp spines that often snag on the sleeves of my fisherman’s jumpers when moving pots around come fall.
I had a wonderful dream where a tap-dancing cactus came to me and said “make me into an anime girl”
Dorstenia gigas - a rare and extremely endangered native to the island of Socotra. The plants are self-fertile relatives of the fig and I acquired this particular specimen to use to produce and germinate seeds.
Tylecodon reticulatus - shrub-like caudiciform succulent from South Africa and Namibia. Very poisonous.
Copiapoa coquimbana - multiheaded and very old. I also don’t really have room for this in the house but the greenhouse is too cold to keep it over winter.
I lost my password. also it turns out i have adhd.
I remembered my password just sat here so now we’re back