C and D's Succulents

[cjbaker]

Very strange! Reminds me of sassafras with all those different hand-like leaves.

[Jo]

Nice and peculiar leaves! And good to see an othonna with different than the common yellow flowers.
I bet there's already a nice promising caudex buried in the soil.

[iann]

Seems like nearly every Othonna is weird, but that is *really* weird!

[C And D]

Talk about weird, let's look at the early Bulbine action

Bulbine bruynsii

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Bulbine mesembryanthemoides

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Tylecodon singilaris
2 year old seedlings

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[C And D]

The Gibbaeum heathii collection

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G. heathii and a G. neobrownii volunteers

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3 leafed seedlings, well one reverted back to dual leaves
I call them "Sand Worms", from "Dune", Denise says that the sand worms are called "Spice Worms"
I say she's wrong.

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Antimima dualis
very gibbaeum like

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Conophytum herreanthus
also Gibbaeum like

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[cjbaker]

mesembryanthemoides, indeed...looks like a Gibbaeum. The G. heathii look great, I'll have to start some of those as soon as I can get G. album past the seed leaves stage. I think "sandworms" is right, but they were closely connected to spice. A B. bruynsii body and a tri-leaved Gibbaeum head would be about right!

[Jo]

Yes, one can take the B.bruynsii as a weird plant but I have to add - in a good way..
I find it beautiful and very interesting.
Well grown and compact looking G.heathii you have there.

[C And D]

Trachyandra flexifolia with flowers
distantly related to Bulbine, an African winter growing bulb, it looses all it's leaves in summer,
the flower smell is quite different than the Bulbine and is hard to describe other than sweet perfume.

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[BRC]

Very interesting, i just love weird looking succulents!!

[C And D]

Trichodiadema stellatum

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A Trichodiadema fergusoniae just harvested from the succulent seed garden

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It will take a deep pot to let that carrot grow to it's full potential

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[C And D]

Bulbine bruynsii update

I lost track of which ones were my original plants and which ones are seedlings,
since they come and go and you never know what will come back alive each fall

and I stick seedlings here and there in pots that seem to have a good soil

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B. bruynsii seedlings after 3 months, they just started to germinate after 2 and half months

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Here is a batch of other Bulbine seedlings after 3 months, they are much easier to germinate,
some unknown volunteers seemed to invade the pots, but I doubt they're will cause any worries

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[iann]

Aliens!

That's a pretty clean-looking carrot. Wonder what they taste like ...

[KittieKAT]

Lol iann, i was thinking the same

[Jo]

Just love those little extraterrestrials! I mean the B.bruynsii plants.

[Allison 17]

fell in love with Adromischus eventually! Looking forward to see some updates about the Adromischus collection (XD yes, I'm greedy) I know C and D have sooooo many of them